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In a similar vein, people claiming they are OCD or using OCD as an adjective - may they never truly experience the distress OCD can cause. Often though, their
by bigmattystyles 5y ago
In a similar vein, people claiming they are OCD or using OCD as an adjective - may they never truly experience the distress OCD can cause.
Often though, their use of it doesn’t bother me that much, I don’t think their intent is malicious and I’m sure I have such blind spots for other afflictions, or, well, I pick my battles nowadays.
- temp234 5y agoYeah this is where I'm at now with people misusing "OCD" :/ Sometimes, online, I just link them to stuff that explains what OCD actually is. My hope is that if people learn exactly how complex and life-ruining actual OCD can be, and how long people take to get diagnosed, they'll actually find it interesting and naturally stop using "OCD" to mean "neat" or "particular" I have used the exact same language... "not malicious"... but it's still term overloading that hurts people with OCD and keeps them living in what is legitimately hell on earth