idk, just quickly wanna say everyone with OCD experiences it differently. don't take one example as how it works for everyone. people may have an issue with germs or hand washing. may run up and down the stairs 8 times to prevent their mum from dying of cancer, may randomly -- https://twitter.com/tacosinthesnow/status/1276607924572434432

-- touch things in a certain way at a certain force at a certain time at a certain pace at a certain continuous beat (for example-) as giving in to their urges. OCD is very confusing and it's not as simple and trivial as it's made out to be. it could take over people's lives. --

-- it's not a case of "i like tidying uwu". although it may be a case of tidying your room, then feeling constant anxiety that it's not tidy enough so going around constantly all the time and changing or moving things to make it more "tidy", although it never truly satisfies --

-- you. as someone who suffers from OCD, it controls my whole life to the point that i never really notice it, while it constantly has my attention at the same time. but because i don't have it in the way where i'm just like "tidy room " (although that is a constant problem --

-- for me), people don't recognise it, nor do they take it seriously. if you, the person reading this (assuming you don't have ocd), were to live as me for a day, the stress, pain and suffering you would go through would constantly be noticeable to you. it's just my life. --

-- and without a doctor's diagnoses to shove in someone's face, they will go and assume i'm either lying about it, or the nonsense thing of "everyone experiences OCD". no trixie, just because you don't like that uneven floor tile it doesn't mean it "give you OCD". --

-- ah yes, an uneven tile temporarily gives you a serious mental illness. of course.
the fact that i don't have a diagnoses doesn't cancel out the fact that this interferes with my life CONSANTLY. EVERY SECOND. OF EVERY DAY. i am not exaggerating, so please take it --

-- seriously for once. i think people also tend to forget that the diagnosed people were still suffering from what they were diagnosed with BEFORE they could say "yeah i'm diagnosed".
although i may be partly talking from personal experience in this thread, please remember --

-- that everyone with OCD will have different struggles with it. and please, for the love of god, stop throwing the term around as the feeling of not liking something uneven.
i may not have any sort of problem with germs, but i still count every syllable of everything i hear, --