Do you ever do stuff like this?

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hiker i do those kinds of things all the time, everything has to be even, its weird... but i do it anyways.

Originally posted by The Tired Hiker
Say, you are running up some stairs and you accidently bump your left hand on the railing. I will purposefully bump my right hand on the railing just to make it even. 😮

It's known as OCD, and everyone has it in some form or another. In most it lies dormant, but it's related to jumping cracks in the pavement, or holding your sleeves down when putting on a coat so as not to have your sleeves halfway up your arms. I had it bad when I was a kid.

Originally posted by The Tired Hiker
Say, you are running up some stairs and you accidently bump your left hand on the railing. I will purposefully bump my right hand on the railing just to make it even. 😮

Shellie, you're one fah-reaky lady 😉 I lover you hug

if i wash one hand and dry it, (like if i got pen on it) i have to do the same to the other one even if it was clean, cos it don't feel right other wise.

Originally posted by The Tired Hiker
Say, you are running up some stairs and you accidently bump your left hand on the railing. I will purposefully bump my right hand on the railing just to make it even. 😮

Good God!! 😱

I'm not the only one!

I do that all the time, well I used too...

It's related to things you eat...certain foods can cause behaviour like that...and make you nervous or anxious for no reason at all...
I went to a special Doctor in Baton Rouge, that told me I had an allergy to wheat...and when I stopped eating wheat...my behaviour was so much better...the same doctor also treated me for my allergy, and I am now not as sensitive to it, as I used to be. Also sugar and white flower...found in almost everything can cause irritability as well as nervousness...and strange behaviour...and make it hard to concentrate.

🙂

I had OCD terribly; it peaked at my pubescence. I had to be hospitalized. I still fight it. It's genetic- my father has it, too.
I do the evening out/symmetry, and the "mantras," and I'm disturbed by "improper" grooming of self and others. Everything still has to be just so, and neatly packaged, and secure. Oddly, I have no "elevated/innapropriate" fear of disease or discomfort with body fluids.

Originally posted by The Tired Hiker
I will purposefully bump my right hand on the railing just to make it even. 😮

Nope

- but NEXT time i bump my left hand i will PM you and get you to bump your right hand and see if it makes a difference.

Originally posted by English Moosette
Shellie, you're one fah-reaky lady 😉 I lover you hug

Also, sometimes if I am talking about something 'taboo' I'll knock on wood so it won't happen to me. Sometimes I make everyone I'm with knock on wood as well, just to make the circle complete, if we were all talking about it. And to make you think I'm even wierder, when I knock on wood, I make sure to have no tobacco products in my hands because tabacco products will void the knocking on wood. 😮

Must not diverge, when in a group, to pass by any obstruction...
At the street sign in New Orleans that says Exchange Place, you have to jump into one another's path.

I've never bumped my hand on the railing before....my ankle on a rail from skating though...that hurts like all hell!

i sometimes do stuff like that. i don't actually have ocd, but a few people in my family do, so i sort of picked those random little things like that up from them. i don't do the hand thing, but other random stuff like that.