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I'm gonna start making minecraft videos and make a character called Save Ferrets , I'm sure I could make at least a few dollars doing that , I estimate $6 and 50 cents

That's like 4 Pounds 50 or 75 in English currency.

DataB4. It was an issue with my processing, and no fault of yours. I just saw your post, and it was important to me to let you know. ~Thank you : )

So glad to hear that you have been feeling better, blackicmenace, and, thank you for your kind sentiments. I like your avatar, indeed, and not sure what I will choose for my next one. Perhaps I will just reuse the photo of myself. Or, I used to like utilizing photos of architecture I like, and photos of 'Art's and Architecture' magazine covers. Rambling. Jeeze, have been rambling, a lot, these days.

Glad you found it !

Thanks!

You'll need a good laugh, though! Stampy's laugh is so weird, but I like it!

Brit, thanks for letting me know.

Yes i never ever thought my family would get infected or the house would be condemned if it wasnt clean or that us kids will be taken away. I just liked things clean. I never engaged in compulsive behavior by doing it over and over until its right. In fact i enjoy cleaning and it always relaxed me like how reading relaxes my mother. But that doesn't mean I want people to make messes to make it more work. There are things i do everyday like sweeping and vacuuming because that is called life. I am now teaching my kids to clean up and throw their trash away.

Your welcome, DataB4 ! Thank you, as well.

'I haven't got a scooby who Stampy is'. I like this.

~Goodnight to all of you. Thank you, again, for forgiving me.

I remember I would get upset with my aunt for doing the dishes because I couldn't make any money then if she was always doing them and my mom got mad at me for getting upset about it. Then one day she did something wrong with the dishes because she misunderstood what I wanted and I got upset about it too.

Yeah I can relate to the compulsion of if you ignore it, it gets stronger and stronger. I did that with my mattress thing when my parents got me a new bed. I thought the mattress was slipping off the bed so I had to push up against it and I did this every few minutes before falling asleep. Now that is OCD. Then when I was an adult, I always had to pull the sheets back down because my husband would roll in bed and pull the sheets up and I don't like it when sheets come undone but that is not OCD because it is not the same feeling and all I am doing is just fixing the sheet and I got diaper pins to keep those sheets down so I wouldn't have to fix it every time.

About my psychiatrist, he was the only person in the area who specialized in ASDs and knew about AS. He was one of the few doctors then who knew about AS and knew about it before it came to the US. I got referred to him for, ADD and OCD, and Asperger's. what was wrong with your psychiatrist and what did you experience with him? Did he also not know the difference and had troubles figuring it out what you had?

It seems like in my area, all the doctors say OCD is autism and part of it and call symptoms of it OCD unless it was just a coincidence. A therapist I was seeing briefly also called it OCD and said it was autism because I told her I would wring my wrists in public whenever I was stressed or overwhelmed and she said it was OCD and part of autism. My mom says I was very difficult to diagnose. We had to see the psychiatrist for a few months before he even decided with AS when before he had autistic spectrum disorder, mild, basically is PDD-NOS. It seems like in my area no doctor likes to hand out a NOS label because I got diagnosed with anorexia nervosa in my early twenties even though I wasn't underweight and I still got my monthly cycles unless it was also a coincidence. I had an eating disorder yes but I think that came from OCD because I had a fear of gaining weight and getting fat so I had low potassium and I wasn't losing any weight. You would think I would be working out if I was so worried about my weight but the problem was I feared I would put on weight from working out because of muscle and I would feel fat still. I also think I have some body dysmorphia because I see this big girl in the mirror and a big butt and thighs and I am not happy with my body type. I had learn to ignore it because if I keep losing weight, I would look anorexic and I still wouldn't be happy with my body because my butt is still too big or my belly needs to be flatter so I realized in my 20's I will never be happy with my body and it will always look big no matter how much weight I lose. I had this realization when I dropped down to 119 after I had my son and saw bones in my back. I think OCD can also cause eating disorders so therefore eating disorders can be part of it meaning they can cause them like how autism can cause OCD as you said. Maybe that is what my mom meant when she told me it was part of it and my school counselor told me the same.

I had compulsive hand washing briefly in the 4th grade because I got into hygiene and then cared about being clean and neat and cared about my appearance. Kids made comments to me I stunk and stuff so it got me to care. So I started to wash my hands a lot because I always thought they were dirty. I wasn't afraid of germs or thought I had dirt on them, I just thought they were dirty because i would see dry skin and I wanted to have pretty hands so I would wash them to make them look smooth but instead they got dryer and dryer and more white so i would wash them to get rid of that look and then my skin was cracking on my hands. My mom came home one day with hand lotion telling me to use that on my hands and my hands are that way because I had been washing them too much and they wreck the skin. I stopped the excessive hand washing and only used lotion instead and I found I only needed to use lotion to make my skin smooth and look pretty and water isn't going to do it. I also didn't like the feel of dry hands so I would use lotion. Apparently with OCD that wouldn't work but for me it did. I know with OCD you can't stop someone's compulsion even if you tell them about it while my mom told me and I stopped just like that, boom. I just didn't know what water does to your hands if exposed to water too much and I know now it does not make your hands smoother. An OCD person knows this but can't stop while I did after I got the information.

Not sure if this is all OCD related but I used to worry about my boobs getting too big and that they would get bigger and bigger because it happened to my mother. I didn't stop worrying until she told me she had something wrong with her so her boobs didn't know when to quit growing and then they stopped after she had the surgery.

I used to worry about I was going crazy (schizophrenia) because my aunt has it and I knew it could be genetic and I thought I was going delusional when I would miss hear words or when others would remember things differently than me or when I would hear sounds and others wouldn't notice it. I wasn't looking for reassurance when I would talk about it. My mom would get mad at me about it whenever I would worry and my therapist was the only one who took me seriously and listened so they asked me all these questions and I answered no to all of them and he said I wasn't a schizophrenic. Then when I watched A Beautiful Mind, I never worried about I was going crazy again.


I used to have these sort of worries and I have gotten better at it because they are not as extreme.

Does anyone else with diagnosed OCD not able to relate to other OCDers or rarely relate because they don't have the same symptoms as you do or the same issues or their reasons behind their symptoms are different than yours?

I haven't been diagnosed so cannot answer but there is an obsessive–compulsive spectrum so it's quite possible to relate to some people with OCD and not to others ? , but I'm guessing if you have OCD you should be able to definitely relate to the anxiety involved with OCD especially if you do a lot of research on it.

League_Girl, I can relate to some of what you say and I don't believe the diagnosis was completely incorrect, but maybe you have a type of OCD that is just not very common.

Keep in mind that OCD is very irrational, unlike GAD where the person worries about events that could possibly happen. They both involve rumination and worrying. I am in no way I'm playing that you have GAD, but I am pointing out that some of your worries seem to be a little more rational than others. Particularly what you mentioned about schizophrenia. There are people with OCD who have schizophrenic relatives who fear going crazy, but the fear doesn't normally stop after watching "A Beautiful Mind." This is where the irrationality of OCD plays in. For instance, there is a test online known as the Hollow Mask Illusion. I took it a few months ago, and I passed (meaning that I will never go insane, I am not insane, and never will be). That didn't get rid of any anxiety for me, in fact, it created even more. Now whenever I think of that test I get so anxious because, well, goodness knows why! It just shows you how irrational OCD can be even when faced with evidence. Not implying that any of this is/isn't true for you of course, as I don't know you that well.

My idiotic psychiatrist visit was terrible. To begin with, he pulled me out in the middle of class in front of all my friends/acquaintances whatever. I had horrible anxiety the whole time, and it was slightly uncomfortable being in a dark little room with no windows. He asked me questions, and when I gave my honest answer of what I thought, he would contradict it. I thought this was my appointment ! Why can't I say anything? My mom had told him I had OCD /hypochondriasis, so maybe he just thought this was another obsession of mine and I didn't really have autism, despite the fact that I don't worry about having autism and have shown symptoms since birth.

It's very odd how the doctors in your area think that autism and OCD are the same thing. They are completely different things from what I've read and heard. They may be referring to the obsessive-compulsive symptoms seen in autism, like lining up toys. But since the motivation behind the behavior is completely different, I don't think it is right to call them the same thing. I don't know why you would be diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. I definitely agree with you- the doctors in your area seem to hate NOS diagnoses. It's a little weird, to be honest!

Sorry if I didn't reply to everything; I'm on a touch screen and it is difficult to see everything you wrote .