Who else finds OCD fascinating ?

I am by no means ridiculing anyone who has this condition, since I am probably more “unusual” in many ways than the average person, and many people that I’ve met who have OCD are probably smarter than I am. I just can’t wrap my mind around the idea that someone knows for certain that they’ve gone back and checked the stove three times, yet MUST go back and check it again.

A friend of mine must always eat M+Ms one color at a time, and ALWAYS in the same color order. When she exercises at a local park by walking a one-mile path around a lake multiple times, the number of completed laps must ALWAYS come out even.

I once asked her what she would do if she finished, say, 3 miles and then a torrential rainstorm started with massive lightning bolts striking everywhere, with no end in sight.
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She replied, “I would walk Mile Four in it….”
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