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Re: It's in part an OCD thing, yes

Posted by Tabernacles E. Townsfolk (@billstrudel) on May 19, 2025, 12:59 p.m.

Have you been diagnosed with OCD? I think you might be using it wrong.

Once when I was under a ton of stress for months on end I would count the letters in any word I heard, and words and phrases with 8, 12, and 16 letters in particular were felt as complete and harmonious, and words and phrases (“swing and a miss, “makes the catch” – it was baseball season) of 13 or 17 letters were ominous and hateful, and I avoided them when possible and when they occurred they were unwelcome, on either side of the inning. Over time this counting became involuntary and compulsive, and I would try to remove myself from society and listen to instrumental music or sit in silence when being around words was too much to bear. This lasted about three months until the stresses let up and I was well again. I was already good at crosswords and Wheel of Fortune and I’m a fucking legend since.

This was an obsessive-compulsive episode with psychotic features. Obsessive discography completism sounds like garden-variety autism. Like “I was depressed for a week after I failed my diagnosis test I had crammed for”.

Trung?