Sooo glad to read that! I, too, have a few OCD like ‘habits’ which I’ve never seriously considered getting treated for, but I’ve sometimes wondered if not doing so is something I’ll regret later on.
But I truly believe (like the OP) that my quirks don’t harm anyone else, and have only little impacts even on me. FTR, my quirks are all counting behaviors. For example, when I unload the dishwasher I do it by category (I’ll take out all the plates, then mugs, then bowls, and so forth) and as I remove them I count how many of each category there are: how many bowls, how many plates, how many regular spoons, how many serving spoons. As best I can tell, this probably adds a minute or so to the time compared with how long it would take to simply grab whatever my hand falls on first. So…who cares?
OTOH, I had a friend who also had some quirks, and who didn’t feel it was enough of a problem to bother about, but I know for sure it had led to the loss of several friendships and finally got her fired. She was a hand-washer. She had to wash her hands three times (the whole cycle from getting her hands wet, using soap, rinsing, drying) each time. Before and after eating (including things like drinking a cup of coffee), and if she touched certain things like telephones, railings, the backs of chairs, oh, a whole slew of things.
It might seem like a small thing, but spending any time with her involved frequent gaps of ten or more minutes while she vanished into a bathroom, and was especially aggravating if you were trying to do something in a public place or needed to get some task done by a certain time.
And I know she too said her ‘problem’ wasn’t a big enough deal to treat. :rolleyes: