What's your OCD screening score?

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Thanks for the link to the blog, was pretty funny =)

on my favorites

i didn't have a double meaning =/

just meant that 13 could be considered an unlucky number....so then if you were superstitious you might think you have it because of the number you got.

also i am just jiving at the webpage because it is so ridiculous about what it says at the end...plus the questions seem quite silly...but most psych tests are kind of funny with the questions they ask....

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lol. I clearly missed that and that seems like it should have been obvious to me (In retrospect, it looks like the "obvious meaning").

I saw the possible meanings of your statement being...

-"If you're superstitious enough to believe an arbitrary score predicts if you have a mental disorder"

-"If you're superstitious, than you're likely to have OCD (Because OCD individuals tend to be superstitious)"

Is this kind of missing someone's intended meaning characteristic of autism? This happens ALL THE TIME with other people, especially "normal" people. I seem to infer more complex meanings than the person intends, and miss the simple, obvious one.

Yes, I know (Well, I was aware of your primary intention as bolded).

23. I really didn't think that I was that bad. One more thing to add to the list of crazy.

Speaking of superstitions, I remember one three month period I was playing WoW where I refused to keep stacks of 13 items. Any time I got food or water down to 13, I'd either get more or use a second one right away. There wasn't any anxiety that I recall, I just didn't like stacks of 13.

A friend of mine - who is neurotypical - was doing the exact same thing for a long time. We were both playing mages when we did it, so it makes me wonder.

When I transferred my warlock into that guild I stopped caring about stacks unless they were nearly gone.

Scored 13.
I don't have OCD though. I have some anxiety about germs, I can't stand being sick, so even catching a cold will drive me somewhat panicky. None of my other obsessive tendencies are fueled by anxiety though, they're just very strong preferences.

You scored a total of 0.

23 I know i have some OCD traits.

13

I don't think I suffer from OCD given that I didn't answer very highly on the 'disrupting your life' and 'causing distress' type questions. Much of what they were asking me about is either self-soothing behavior or routine-related behavior in me. Occasionally I do get an unpleasant thought stuck in my head and need to figure out how to get it out, but not nearly often enough to cause serious difficulties. (And sometimes it's a good thought, such as when I get inspired to write just before bedtime and end up staying up half the night writing.)

I do insist on handwashing, which I think is a bit OCD-like, but I don't handwash to the point of disrupting other things or injuring my hands. I just always wash my hands after going to the bathroom, plus immediately after touching anything I think is dirty. But I don't rewash my hands unless I can actually see that they're still dirty (eg when I see something stuck in my fingernails).

The first time I had dysmenorrhea (painful period), I fainted in the women's bathroom on the way to the sink. I was taken to a couch to lie down with my feet elevated while some vet students (I was in the vet college where my Dad used to work) took care of me, and I tried very hard to convince myself that under the circumstances, it was OK to skip handwashing after using the bathroom. But I couldn't stop the sense of dirtyness of my hands from bugging me, so finally once I was somewhat recovered I asked Dad to help me to the bathroom so I could wash my hands.

That sums up my experience in conversations nicely.

The symptoms I have come down to making me a bit of a cultural stranger.

I'm trying to understand some what might make you think the way I think you do...

Symptom. This conversation-issue is not a symptom for me if you understand the term "symptom" to mean an object-like phenomenon. I don't consider this manifestation a part of what neurological weirdness makes me have the disorder called autism in 2011. But "it" is one of many manifestations of the human-made social/medical/psychological/philosophical concept "autism" in 2011 - and I happen to have an individualised manifestation of "it".

"It" is a (final) result of a collection of the underlying difference currently called autism, ADHD and I guess it involves other neurological differences that are part of other "disorders" too as well as "normal" neurological differences (normal people are very unique but who gets their body and brain checked for uniqueness if they're called "typical"?), of my experiences, my personality, my other genes and their expressions, my decisions, environmental factors that influence my development by deciding what I learn, what I know...
and all of these happen to mix into an observable symptom of interpreting exchanges such as conversations often more different than others.

It all makes me feel like a stranger. A stranger who - despite growing up with that culture for all my life and therefore I'm not really what most understand the concept called "stranger" to mean - isn't as used as other people in seeing the world through this particular "cultural lens".

This difference and difficulty of mine is not simply about being unable to ever see and ever understand things the same way as others do. I can understand and I can learn, it's just that the collection of lenses that become available to me depending on my potential, my interests, efforts and due to "chance" won't ever be quite as similar as the many ones others have "developed" throughout their lives.

A potential isn't a one-dimensional point you're at and can't get away from. You're not "glued" to it, there is nothing that is "always the same". A person's potential - and this includes their talents and impairments - is a range and a person can or cannot move within that range depending on a great number of factors.

Rather than calling it a "range" I guess I could call it a "spectrum" too. Autism is a spectrum of manifestations as are many other physical and mental disorders. But an autistic person's "autism" is a spectrum in itself too.

"I can be very different from how I can be - and I am all of that."


Ha, I'm reminded of how I absolutely hate words, I'm not as good with using them as I'd like to be.

My score is 21.
I already new I had it, but surprised that my score is not that high.

12, I wouldn't say I have OCD, just anxiety

15, but i dont think i have OCD.

According to this website I have depression, OCD, ADD and Severe BPD but on the plus side I'm not a narcissist.... If anyone wants me I'll be on ebay looking for condemned stickers

But narcissism forms the basis of successful sociopaths because self-image has a lot to do with how one is treated in society, so I can't imagine lacking it can be a good thing...

So, just make sure to look for the "condemned to the fourth circle of hell" instead of "condemned to the fifth circle of hell" stickers.