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bubbles

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Ok so I need advice on whether this relates to aspergers or OCD, right when I get on a bus I can't sit down and if I touch the handles I have to anti bacterial my hands, and if I do sit on a bus or a chair in a public place I can't make them trousers touch any othet items of clothes, its like I feel like they are gonna be contaminated, also when i go to bed I go to the toilet up to 7 times a night, and I don't let anyone sit on my bed and if they do I change my bedding I get anxious about this, but it has only been happening for probably a year now but it embarrasses my, ok any opinions
 
Well, I can't say that I have had any of such situations come up (where I was so fearful of contamination). I do not have OCD, but do have Aspergers. It sounds quite stressful, and I hope that you are ok.
 
I think it kind of depends a bit on why you are afraid of it. Like I don't want people on my bed, because its my safe place, and i don't want anyone invading my safe place, whether I am in the bed or not, it is sort of sacred to me I guess. I have to do the dishes a certain way, but I have an issue with yuckiness, so like i can't rinse a dish off and have the yuckiness get on the other dishes, it needs to go into the sink drainer or down the drain, or in the trash. Things have to be rinsed and scrubbed before they are put into clean soapy water. But to me these are very logical, to others it may seem irrational, but whenever those people do dishes, I am all the time finding their clean dishes are still dirty. I don't worry so much about germs though, just yuckiness.
 
I share your 'yuckiness' thing when it comes to dishes too, Pella! We now have a dishwasher but in the early years when the kids were younger, we didn't. Now, it's just the stuff that can't be done in the dishwasher that get done by hand. Still, any yuckiness must be wiped off & rinsed of thoroughly before it goes into soapy water. If anyone drops something in there that I know is imbued with yuckiness, the offending item must be immediately removed, cleaned separately & all the yuck free stuff that was in the water must be re-cleansed separately. My family has learned to never just drop anything whatsoever into the soapy water or heads will roll! With the dishwasher, stuff must be rinsed off thoroughly before anything goes in.
 
Soup said:
With the dishwasher, stuff must be rinsed off thoroughly before anything goes in.
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I always thought this was the logical thing to do - the dishwasher can't scrub, so the dishes must be rinsed off! But apparently I'm a little neurotic about this too. No food chunks, and heaven forbid there's any grease left on a single dish. I feel like it makes all the other dishes come out greasy when it's all done, and then I have to wash them by hand, then re-run the dishwasher.
 
bubbles said:
Ok so I need advice on whether this relates to aspergers or OCD, right when I get on a bus I can't sit down and if I touch the handles I have to anti bacterial my hands, and if I do sit on a bus or a chair in a public place I can't make them trousers touch any othet items of clothes, its like I feel like they are gonna be contaminated, also when i go to bed I go to the toilet up to 7 times a night, and I don't let anyone sit on my bed and if they do I change my bedding I get anxious about this, but it has only been happening for probably a year now but it embarrasses my, ok any opinions
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From someone with clinical OCD, i'd like to ask what happens if you were to touch the handles on the bus and not be able to sanitize your hands? What happens if someone does sit on your bed, and if you didn't change the bedding? How would you react? How would that make you feel? Because i share ALL of what you wrote as a person with OCD - contamination fears.
 
Can I have OCD with PROCRASTINATION?

I'm just wondering if I wore a rubberband around my wrist and snapped it, would I stop my procrastination and do my chores and other things like I should be doing? Idk.

Anyone else have this sort of problem with procrastinating?
 
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