Odd things?

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Do you find you need things to be in a certain way, or a certain order?

For example if I have a row of Mars chocolate bars on a table, I MUST arrange them so that they are all horizontal, or if I have an assortment of chocolate bars, in height order.
I also have a strange obsession with pencils; I cannot use ordinary HB pencils, I must draw with Papermate Nonstops. I have a fixation that it is terrible to draw with ordinary pencils and cannot get the thought out of my head.

Also, if an object is moved and I have gotten used to it being in a certain position, it drives me crazy.

Do you also find these things to be true?

Oh yes....
I have what I termed: Selectively Random OCD.
The towels in the bathroom must be folded in a certain way and arranged in a certain order that is both aesthetically pleasing as well as balanced. I have taken to doing that in the bathrooms of friends' homes when I'm visiting.
We bought a black chandalier about a month ago. All the baubles hung from metal rings. The contrast of the gorgeous black chandalier and those hideous metal rings made me wince every time I looked at it. I eventually bought black vinyl-coated wire from a craft sore and remounted every single bauble with new rings and hooks- all in black so they matched. It took like 6 hours. My partner thought I had lost my mind.
There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to the things I obsess over.

Let's not mention what my girlfriend must have thought when she helped me move in to my new flat and we started to hanf my shirts up.

I didn't ask her to make sure she button the same two buttons up on each shirt and then make sure she put them all in the wardrobe hanging the same way. I then didn't change the buttons fastend on a couple of them and take a couple of shirts back out and hang then up the correct way...nope, not at all...

I need to have all my clothes laid out on the bed in the morning (afternoon--whenever I get up) in a particular way before I get into the shower so that I know what I'm going to wear that day.

I tried to stop doing this, thinking it was silly, but then I found that I'd pace around naked for 20-30 minutes before I could finally start to get dressed.

Now I know it's crazy, because I know where the underwear and socks are, and the closet is right there as well--everything is where it ought to be--but it just doesn't work out that way.

Whereas if everything is already ready, I can start getting dressed as soon as I've dried off. If I have to make any last-minute changes (e.g., because a shirt is missing a button), it's hell.

I think maybe the shower makes me stupid.

I am only that way about my furniture and its arrangement in my home. But then, it's a practical matter, as I see it.

From the outside observer's viewpoint, it only appears odd. And when no one ASKS why . . . then yeah, I'm weird.

Exactly the same here. If THE ORDER is disrupted it is like a personal insult that must be avenged.

ROFLMAO...yes, I can relate to most of what people wrote here....

Yes, I have OCD. I do weird, random things- like turning off an oven 10 times, having my clothes color coordinated, My books alphabetized, an exact time on every clock, and even having my clothes folded a certain way.

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I'm not an absolutist, but if my sense of aesthetic and proportion is affected, then I have to change it. If I am expecting something and things change, I am prone to blowing up and melting down. I work very hard not to allow these things to affect me; I'd spend all day arranging my closet in chromatic order, matching hangers, etc. It could easily overwhelm my time, so I have to limit how I indulge these impulses.


M.

Yes, and it drives my husband nuts when I must have things in a certain way. It also drives me nuts when things aren't where they are supposed to be. Lately, nothing is in its place, and I feel like my mind is slowly slipping.