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Something I have a long history of doing

Keith

Keith

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I have a long history of redoing something entirely if I even make the tiniest mistake. With my Pandora stations, for example, if I don't follow my criteria I have to redo that station entirely (I used to do all my stations over). Just now, I added a song from a temporary station (I create stations to add hard-to-get songs to my stations and then delete the temporary stations) when I decided yesterday I wasn't going to do that. After realizing that, I removed the song I'd added and deleted the station. Now, I have to fight the compulsion to redo the station I added the song to. Problem is, the song I'd added I would've wanted on the station anyway (I added a song by New Order to my classic alternative station; the temporary station was a Modern English station because I read in their bio that they were more post punk and that I Melt With You was actually unusual for them).
 
Strangely, I have to say, I relate to this.

In the math course I'm currently doing (and have been for the last ~16 months) the work over the entire course is dividing into 4 sections, and then each section is divided into 10 parts. Anyways, more to the point, I cannot start a 'part', wait a day or two, then continue from where I was from. I have to start again, and make sure that I work through a 'part' in one go. I just cannot bring myself to continue from work I previously completed, I don't even understand myself.
 
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I know this feeling as well, though have learned that I can't allow my desire for perfection to rule me. Otherwise I'd be living in re-runs for the rest of my life. In saying that, I do give in from time to time, and put a lot of effort in ensuring something is as perfect as I can get it, to avoid that cycle.
 
This is something I've been working on lately with my coding. I've felt compelled to spend a lot of time rewriting much code, particularly for command-line argument parsing, each time I want to try out one little new thing. It's rather problematic because with programming you can't really get much done unless you build on existing code.
 
I suppose my issue is partially because of a history of having to memorize things to recite (I took a public speaking class in college, e.g.). I've become so focused on the mistakes that I often don't notice the pleasure.
 
Me too. So many things. Especially my posts. If I spot a typo error I created minutes, hours or months ago I'll still go back and fix it.

My hobbies keep me constantly wanting to go back and "get it right"...which always seems to run the risk of no longer being any fun.

Do the rest of you posting have OCD?

Just wondering...I sure do. In my world, that in my own personal environment has to be visually "in order" to varying degrees. Professionally it can come in handy on multiple levels, but it makes so many things inherently annoying for me.
 
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Me too. So many things. Especially my posts. If I spot a typo error I created minutes, hours or months ago I'll still go back and fix it.

My hobbies keep me constantly wanting to go back and "get it right"...which always seems to run the risk of no longer being any fun.

Do the rest of you posting have OCD?

Just wondering...I sure do. In my world, that in my own personal environment has to be visually "in order" to varying degrees. Professionally it can come in handy on multiple levels, but it makes so many things inherently annoying for me.
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Lol, I have posting OCD. It's worse because my iPad's auto correct keeps changing my correct words, in to random things, so sometimes I have to make 3-4 changes :P
 
I can relate to this except, I am only a perfectionist in the things I care about or if it's Special Interest related. For example, when I fixed up the tags on the thousands of mp3s I have, I was in the zone for literally days and days manually tagging and fixing album cover artwork. Sometimes my strive for perfection will drive me nuts!

If it's something I don't care about or not Special Interest related, meh, near enough is good enough.
 
Most of this sounds to me like Obsessive-Compulsive. Something to take a look at? I have no idea if that is a common part of Autism or Asperger's Syndrome.
 
Yeah, it probably is. Everyone has their OCD-like habits, though. I can fight it though, so I doubt it should be a concern. It's partially due to my obssession with categorization and the fact that it gets tedious and problematic trying to categorize my stations. I wish Slacker weren't so expensive. Their premium service allows for stations which only play your seeds. That's what I'd like.
 
I NEED HELP. I can't figure out what my problem is. I have the opposite of OCD. This is what happens.... Ex. 1- I just had a new faucet placed in the bathroom and had to get everything out from underneath the sink. I put everything in a bag and was planning on putting everything back after sink is installed. At this time the bag of things is still in my bathroom waiting for me to put everything under the sink again. Why can't I just do it???? Ex. 2 - I cleaned the kitchen and didn't want the coffee pot that was on the counter to be there anymore so I cleaned it and got it ready for storage. I put it in the hall by the front door to be taken downstairs - it's still waiting to be taken downstairs!!!!!!! I don't get it!!! Why do I do this???? My house is clean so it's not like I'm a hoarder. Right after I get done typing this I'm going to put the stuff under the sink. (Force myself actually to do it). I'm going to the store today so I'm going to try to remember to put the coffee pot in storage. If someone has an idea of why I do these things, let me know cause I want to change it. I'm now making notes to remind myself to do it (the phone is nagging me every hour). :mad:
 
I have a history of forcing myself to do what I have to do. I force myself to do the laundry, for example.
 
Yes. Usually not that strongly, but yes.
Maybe its because I do not want things/events to end? I want to always have a 'next' thing to do?
 
I did all the things I listed above that I hadn't done for several weeks along with other things too!!!!! Woo hoo!!!!!
 
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