You may have already guessed, but that presents quite a few problems for me on a daily basis.
I was watching "Friends" the other day, and realized that I have a new imaginary best friend, and her name is Monica Geller.
Yesterday, I tried to put my movies in order alphabetically. Alright... mildly OCD right? Wrong. I couldn't stand them in alphabetical order because none of the colors matched. So I went back through and re-organized them by color. I seriously considered making new cases for them so they could be organized by letter AND color....
I organize my shoes by height, then by purpose, then by color. If they aren't perfectly straight when I look over, I go and budge them a centimeter or two until they are.
Everything on my desk at home is perpendicular and evenly spaced.
I hate odd numbers. No really though. It doesn't feel right when I'm turning up the volume on the TV and it stops at 21. It HAS to be 22.
However.... my favorite number is 11. Why? When I was little I held a lot of animosity towards odd numbers because, well, if there were odd numbers, some one would be left out. I adopted 11 as my favorite because it represents two people. Two happy little stick people, glad to have a buddy. Why not 22?, because in my OCD brain 1 is the most clean and precise of the numbers. To me, 11 is EVEN because there are two of them. However 33 is not.
If I misspell a word or write the wrong thing when I'm typing, I can't just let it go. Even if I don't notice it until three paragraphs later, I will ERASE everything I just wrote and re-write it. And those little squiggly red and green lines that Word puts under words it thinks are wrong.... even if I know it's right, I'll right click and hit "ignore" or "add to dictionary". Before I save anything, there mustn't be ANY red or green lines. I do all this with other people too. Don won't let me watch him type anymore.
In fact, we used to chat on IM when we first started dating, and every time he sent me a message with a misspelled word or a grammatically incorrect sentence, I'd close the window and start another fresh one because it wasn't "perfect" anymore.
When texting, I always use correct grammar and punctuation. It usually takes me ten years. But if I don't do it that way, I will go in and delete it from my archives.
Everything has to be rhythmic and aesthetic. Especially when it comes to the way I write, speak, or walk.
If I'm in bed and scared, my feet CANNOT be sticking out of my blanket or I will FREAK.
I'm a BIG people watcher. I like to sit down in crowded places and watch people walk and interact with each other. I rate people's moods and personalities and make judgments about what kind of person they are.
I hold my breath when I walk past someone who doesn't LOOK clean.
If I'm ever in a room that's really messy or cluttered, I get really sweaty and nervous, and my stomach starts to hurt. (Probably the ulcer I don't know I have yet. Or the heart attack I'll experience when I'm 24.) No. Big. Deal.
When eating, I will gag if my soft food, like mashed potatoes, yogurt, or salad, isn't also accompanied with something crunchy like a roll, granola, or croutons.
I count my steps. I NEVER step on cracks. AND, I have to alternate feet when walking up stairs...even if it throws off my rhythm.
And if none of that is enough to frighten you, I just recently started doing this.......
to my toilet paper.
3 comments:
HAHAHAHAHAHA! I thought I was the only one who had an obsession with organization. I can agree with some of those rationalizations, but the toilet paper is a little much dear... I'm a little worried. ;)
Mallory you are totally awesome!
I always do that to the toilet paper when my parents come to visit.
I am completely NOT an OCD person--way too messy, too unorganized EXCEPT when it comes to typing email, texts, etc. I always have to make sure things are spelled right and the grammar works. Those wavy green and red lines really bother me, too. It seems I end up typing a lot of stuff that uses people's names. Everything ends up with a line underneath it and I have to go through and "ignore" everything. I would turn that function off, but then I might miss something that was really wrong. AAAAGGGHHH!
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