I do the same when I dismantle gear for repair. Part of this is practical in that laptops and such often do use six different screws to hold a plate on, and mixing them up can lead to disaster. But I will keep identical screws in a row in a mag holder and put them back in exact order. Just cuz. CDO, y’know.
The other trait I share with my sister, who is also an accomplished crafts and handyperson, is that if I drop a nail or screw while building something, I have to retrieve it and use it in that one spot. It drives me crazy to watch (more efficient) builders just let the drops lie there and use another screw, eventually picking up all the lost ones.
I can spend forever aligning a picture or painting on a wall. I can be watching tv and my eyes will drift over to the picture and I’m like - ok wait, that’s just a smidgeon off… or actually…maybe it’s not, and for the next five minutes I’ll go back and forth like that.
Any examples? To bear my own soul on the matter - I nearly lost someone because how I like things not just clinically clean but also zippo nada clutter anywhere. I tried to convince her that the less clutter there is one’s environment, the less clutter, accordingly, there is in one’s mind. We sorta eventually met half-way on the matter.
Yeah, all my bills are immediately taken care of online. I don’t log out/log back in, but I always check the “transaction confirmed” page. And then compare account levels from a year previously to confirm I’m always earning at a currently higher level.
Logging in to the same three websites (email, news, etc), and then for the last few months this place has been the fourth.
But it doesn’t rise to the level of OCD until it causes significant disruption in the life of the individual with the tendencies. That’s what makes it a disorder. [/pedant]
Every few days? The first thing I do every morning is check my bank balances. I get a text message every time one of my debit cards are used. I have three accounts, one for all things house, one for all things car, and one for everything else. Actually makes it convenient if I need to find something, because I know which account I need to check. After I pay a bill online, I copy the receipt and send it to myself in an email, and I only file the email after everything has cleared the way it should. I have a few I have to pay by phone and everything is noted on the bottom of the bill. Mailing in a bill is not an option for me, because I stress where the bill is until the check has cleared, *and * I get the next statement showing me the payment was made.
I play trivia in an online chatroom (it’s a continuous game that you can join and leave at any time) and I don’t like to leave the game when my score is an odd number. Even if it’s really late and I need to go to bed, I’ll keep playing until I can get another point to make my score an even number.
Also, I’m a counter. For example when i check to make sure the stove is off before going to bed, or leaving the house, i count the knobs. 12345, yep it’s off… sometimes I have to do this twice.
Also before leaving the house, i visually check, and smell the kitchen garbage can too make sure i didn’t throw a lit cigarette there, which i never do
Tennis pro Raphael Nadal has this goofy configuration of placing his water and juice bottles next to his chair, between games. They have to be placed at just the correct 45 degree angles from one another, which he takes great pains to carry out.
And goosing himself is another tic that has GOT TO FUCKING GO.
You mean rearranging the underwear from the back? Some guys just got to doing that because their mothers would scream bloody murder if they did it from the front. And it’s Rafael Raphael is the singer who turned the motherfucking little drummer boy into an international hate-target.
I don’t know if this is part of OCD but I recently realized that I have a subconscious obsession with doing even very minor tasks in the most efficient manner possible. And the thing is, that being subconscious, I don’t even realize that I’m doing it. So I might be dawdling in getting started at some minor nothing - say, getting dressed - and not realize that this is because somewhere in the back of my mind I’m sorting through which order I should do the various steps in so as to be the absolute most efficient that I can be.
Not something affecting my life in any significant way, and certainly not something anyone else would notice, but it seems to me that this is occurring. Though it seems to be fading now that I realized I’m doing it.
I’m not at all OCD, but I grew up with a hallway like this, and it seemed irrational. But the fix was easy: I became the self-appointed Switch Cop. An unnecessary hike to the other light switch is a small price to pay for Order In The Universe.
So I am not the only one. I usually look back as I leave the driveway to make sure, but at least once a week I don’t and have to go back to check.
Not OCD as far as I know, and most of the above seem to be quirks and figits we’ve picked up from life and/or experience (IMHO. YMMV). Mine is when I back into a parking space, no matter how well I’ve done it, I need to pull forward and ‘re-adjust’. And then when I am parked, I critically examine how the car fits between the lines and if I am not satisfied, I get back in and re-adjust it.
I always catch myself checking my fly when I’m leaving the bathroom in the same way.
It’s certainly OCD, but I can’t leave the microwaves in the work breakroom with either the clocks unset or with any time left on the timer.
Apparently most of my co-workers happily use it blinking “12:00” constantly, and consistently leave like 30 seconds on the timer after they’re done using it.
Don’t know if it’s really OCD, but the loading-animation on imdb.com when you load a trailer a) isn’t quite round, and b) spins slightly off-center. Drives me bonkers. You’d think they could get some intern to shop together something that doesn’t make me want to strangle my monitor, but it’s been there quite a while now.
Oh god. I keep hearing a commercial on the radio for a local business whose name includes the abbreviation, “Etc.”, and the announcer doing the voiceover keeps pronouncing it “ec-setera”. If I owned that business, I’d be demanding my ad money back.
Ummm, why not lock the door to your house if you don’t want people “walking right in”?
If I leave the garage door open, the worst thing that’d happen is that someone (those Have-Nots who are apparently patrolling the 'hood looking for open garages) can only steal an old tarp or a hedge trimmer.
Yea that’s not really OCD. You are just making sure you have paid all of your bills and don’t want to get charged late fees, or double pay, etc. That’s normal.
Raphael is the singer who turned the motherfucking little drummer boy into an international hate-target.