Obsessive-compulsive walking patterns / cracks / lines / etc.

[haakee]

I have dated girls like this before. My strategy was to wait until I met somebody else who was hotter and date them instead.

[toddw8]

I'm guilty of a lot of the stuff in this thread. This one in particular struck a chord.

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I also used to stare at the power lines on the side of the road during car rides and pretend there was some guy doing crazy acrobatic stuff on them running along to keep up.

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I really thought I was the only one in the world that did this. I always pictured the guy on a skateboard grinding along the power lines and sometimes hopping from billboard to billboard.

I also catch myself counting my steps when I'm walking sometimes. I don't normally don't notice it until I'm in the 80's or 90's but it may be the 280's or 780's because I start over at 1 after i get to 99.

[Navers]

In a weird way this thread is kind of comforting, I wonder if this OCD is more prevalent in poker players. I do so much of this stuff it's crazy, from the avoiding cracks on sidewalks to the clacking my teeth each time I pass a light pole when I'm in a car. Similar to what others did, sometimes when I'm in a car i'll extend horizontal lines that pass through two close light poles and clench my teeth when my car is fitting right between them. If I still have my teeth clenched while I pass the light pole then I lose.

Another quirky thing I do is I'll say the letters in sentences in multiples of four and hope that the last letter of the sentence ends in a multiple of 4. So if I see the phrase "makes your teeth whiter" on TV I'll get quirky because as I say them four at a time (spaces count as letters) I still have two letters left. I move my fingers along with this as if I'm typing it out. I get restless if the phrase doesn't end in the multiple of four or three or whatever so I'll add punctuation which count as extraneous letters to make the letters "fit"

[dibbs]

I know a lot of people that all have their varying styles of this idea.

The only one I know I always do is step exactly on the lines in a crosswalk, as if it was a bridge or something.

[-Skeme-]

I sometimes do this. I can stop, though. It's just something I'd do out of boredom, like clubbing baby seals or something.

[DasLeben]

OCD is fun. I actually have a decent case of it.

Back when I was 15-16, I used to have to "check" to make sure my bedroom door was closed 50-100 times before I was comfortable. It sounds crazy, but I would stand there and push on it over and over to make sure that it was really closed. I don't do this anymore though.

What I still have problems with is setting alarm clocks. It takes me 5-10 minutes every night to set my three (yes, three) alarms. I just recheck them over and over and over. Yeah, it sucks.

[InchoateHand]

No, OCD doesn't suck, you do.

I'm glad you are as neurotic as you suck, it almost makes you more palatable. Nope, it doesn't.

Go check your alarms.

[DasLeben]

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No, OCD doesn't suck, you do.

I'm glad you are as neurotic as you suck, it almost makes you more palatable. Nope, it doesn't.

Go check your alarms.

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[ClaytonN]

Sometimes I'll do it, but my walking is normal. 3 steps in a block, then 2. Then 3, then 2. Then I forget all about it and walk on grass of some kind of tile.

at least you know she won't be a lazy slob if you decides to take her home. they're usually pretty organized people.