Keeping order

[Suzanne]

So, my laptop screen is very orderly and I get VERY angry and frustrated when things are out of sequence and this also goes for my phone and tablet. Wow I get red hot with annoyance when notifications appear and have to get rid of them straight away, in order to be "clean" again.

The trouble is, that this does not just stay with me; when I see others tablets and phones and my husband's computer and how messy it all is, I have to walk away, because I am itching to tidy things up lol

I am also fastidious with keeping my tablet clean and am always dusting it.

 

[Judge]

That's how I feel about uh....."everything".

Diagnosed with OCD, 1982.

Current Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale: Score: 23

 

[Suzanne]

It is true enough that I am like this with all things, but I guess it just strikes me at the moment with my tablet and then seeing how others look, and even mention it, I get a shrug and sort of: so what lol and yet me, I am screaming inside!!!!

I touch a tad on ocd but with labels and things that should be the right way around lol

 

[Judge]

Only recently my cousin was lamenting how "picky" I am about everything. I didn't disagree, but then it's a trait that's hard-wired. It's not an attitude. I'm stuck with this, and about the most control I have over it is not to project it towards others. I try to keep it to myself for the most part.

You won't notice it unless you see me at close range in my native environment. Where everything has a precise place and reason for being. Likely just another thing that drove my NT girlfriends away.