Aspergers and OCD

[Judge]

Yes...I have OCD as well. Can never just check a door lock once...or my car burglar alarm. Can't leave the house with exactly four pennies in my pocket. Most everything sits in the house precisely parallel or perpendicular to whatever is in proximity. And I'm a cleanoholic, but not a germaphobe. Go figure.

All compounded with clinical depression and social anxiety.

 

[SignOfLazarus]

Yes.
One of my compulsions is avoidance- betcha didn't know that could be a compulsion, I sure didn't! ...also to clean and clean and organize and catalog and list and count and document and, and, and...

Playing the constant What If Game when your go to for stopping obsessions and fear is avoidance and a runner up is to clean and organize and straighten and create things to clean organize and straighten? Exercise in absurdity.

Then there's the repetition of "Don't Do That Wrong Thing You Are About To Do"- where you get caught in something like the inevitable consequences of time-travel decisions loop, only its in your head and it's for real because you don't actually know if shutting the door half way is better than shutting it a third of the way ["leave it ajar"] and in your mind what you decide could actually affect the fate of your first born.

OCD= It has an entirely different type of "logic".

 

[Harry1965]

It does ... It got so bad I could tell when anyone had entered my bedroom while I was away at school. I just knew it when any object was slightly out of place.

I'd get angry with anyone who moved my stuff and who was trying to do something nice for me like put one of my things away. No wonder I didn't win awards for being nice to my family.

 

[camerartus]

Mine is really bad. Mostly obsessing day in day out about the future. I'm fighting against it right now.

That is one of the hardest things for me, too!

 

[camerartus]

I've been diagnosed with both and my OCD seems to come and go.

Mine, as well.

 

[Cerulean]

Oh yeah, I did that too. I made it a 'game' where I had to get the number of streets/driveways on each side of the street to pair up and then they could cancel out. But if you go down a street where there are only some one one side, you have to keep count and then subtract when you get back to a place with streets/driveways on the other side. In some areas this was too challenging for me (keeping the 'backlog' in mind while still counting new pairs) and I counted sidewalks, telephone poles, etc. as 'optional' points.

My aspie friend had yet another variation, which I forget entirely. I just remember that she had her own 'driving game'.

I was irrationally excited to read this, I've never been able to adequately explain this and NTs would just look at me crazy when I would try, so for ~15 years I've kept this to myself and wondered if anybody else played the same game.

I have others that use the music on the radio and objects sticking out of the ground, and the pattern that the yellow line makes down the middle of the road but for some reason I don't feel so strange playing those games. But the counting one, definitely seems a little OCD to me.

 

[Dirtdigger]

Wow, I don't believe it. But I had been telling others that I do not have OCD though I am on the Autism Spectrum (professionally diagnosed). And I was going to try to show proof that I didn't have it by finding a quiz that I took a couple years back. Back rather than to look for it I found one on Psych Central and took it. I think it was a multiple choice quiz which started out great. It wasn't until I got a little later into the quiz where things started to change. But I was still hoping I didn't have OCD. I know these quizzes aren't diagnostics tools but if they are answered fairly I think they can be very beneficial so you can get some help from a professional.

So getting back to the quiz I took yesterday, I was really surprised that it indicated that I do have OCD.
On this quiz 12 & up: OCD is likely. And I scored a 20

Not being happy with this quiz I went searching on my computer for the first quiz which was different thinking that will show I didn't have OCD. But once again I was so disappointed.
On the other quiz I scored Moderate OCD with a 50

So I got to thinking about my behaviors and I do check my doors about every 10 or 15 minutes a day twisting the knobs to make sure they are lock. I'm always checking the stove to make sure it is off even trying to twist the knots to off. I pace the floor a lot too I noticing I do have a lot of anxiety and do these things whether some noisy neighbor across the street is making them worse or not.


Since I am having a lot of OCD issues I may have to get some help at least with this OCD and maybe my SPD which is really severe.

 

[Aspergirl4hire]

I have both OCD and aspie hyperfocus. They're very different experiences; the first takes control from me, the second often gives me control.

 

[vanillabuzz]

Yep! I have OCD, ADD, Social Anxiety, obviously. Aspergers, Hyperfocus and Major Depression. I think that's it.

 

[buckyboy14]

Asperger's, severe OCD, Tourette Syndrome, Nonverbal Learning Disability, major depression...god, I hate my life.

 

[Myway]

Yes. I possess both, but they are controlled to the best of my abilities because I don't want people to know for the most part.