So I noticed that when I change the volume on the TV remote, which goes from 0-100, I always wanted to set to multiples of 5, or, ideally 10. There is no reason this makes sense.
My bathroom countertop in the master bath it has 4" tiles that are in a diamond pattern. I find that I set my cordless toothbrush, deodorant, cup, etc in the center of individual diamonds as a rule.
I take a lot of walks, and often notice myself changing my gait to avoid the lines in the sidewalk. Sometimes I have to consciously avert my attention from where I’m stepping.
@JasonToon@unksol sometimes when I’m walking on the sidewalk i try to get past the driveway before a car drives by, so there’s always grass between me and the traffic.
There are several CDO things I do. Some of them are weird even by my standards. One of the more benign is the fact that there is a small Rubik’s cube sitting here which has been scrambled and solved exactly once, and no one is allowed to mess with it ever again, because it now is as it should be.
I’m similar with volume, and my new car annoys me because there’s no number on the volume level only an uncountable bar. In our other car, I do 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, etc.
Our A/V receiver does 0.5 increments of negative dB, so I do things like -30.0, -28.0, -27.5, -25.0, -24.0, -22.5, -22.0, etc.
Many, so many. Some things belong just so. Other similar things I can ignore completely. I don’t freak out if things are not right but it catches my attention and distracts me until it is fixed.
Low level upset/anger when someone is not doing something “right” even if the wrong way is just different rather than actually wrong. Strong desire to tell them to do “my” way that I have to try and suppress.
I lose control of some filters if I am sleep deprived. Also I am not a morning person, you have been warned
This all seems normal to me. You are all fine. About 20 years ago, I was ringing someone up who said something along the lines of I know you never worked at a bank because the bills in the register are facing different directions. And I was like ooh, I can put all the bills in the same direction? That sounds amazing. And it was.
@mossygreen I worked at a hobby lobby in my teens for … $5.15 an hour I think. Minmum wage. No barcodes. Key it all in based on stickers. Call for/go get a price if it didnt have one. Explain to people “no that was not on sale or was just near it That’s not what the add says”
I do not recall if I orriented my bills. We had to count our drawers/ l allign them in my wallet…
I refuse to have any icons on my computer desktop. (Yes, this includes No Trashbin!) The desktop is a picture with a bar at the bottom containing icons I use frequently, along with popup windows for things I use less often. Every time there’s an update to something that leaves an icon on my desktop, I destroy it immediately. I am downright maniacal about this. I’ve had people look at the screen in puzzlement: “But, where is everything?” I give them my best witch’s cackle, rub my hands, and say: “You will never find it!”
@rockblossom I would probably find it. I still prefer to run through the regular Programs menu for the stuff I don’t keep docked in the taskbar. A cluttered desktop just becomes a way of hiding things in plain sight, not a fast-access resource.
@werehatrack Back when I had to deal with other people’s computer problems, I found a screen so covered in icons that the desktop image wasn’t visible at all. Finding anything was like a game of Where’s Waldo? The computer was 8 years old and had never had anything deleted, so the new program she was trying to load wouldn’t fit. It took me almost 2 hours to clean the thing up without deleting the things she needed to keep. When I asked why she hadn’t erased the unused/obsolete icons, she looked surprised and said: “Oh! I’m allowed to do that?”
@rockblossom@werehatrack I was working remotely for many years and always said I’ll just provide and manage my own laptop. Then they changed rules (maybe understandable security reasons) and said We will ship you a new laptop and we will manage it!
Stuff would appear and disappear all the time! It was very un-nerving.
@rockblossom I don’t think there were any of us (in engineering anyway) that didn’t just have masking tape over the camera all the time. The management and sales guys would use video for meetings but nobody else did.
@pmarin@rockblossom current laptop has a sliding cover for the camera at least. I used to also disable it in device manager too. They took our admin access this year so we can’t install anything, even approved software. Have to create a ticket/go through the help desk. We are software engineers bro…
For some reason though we can still run regedit. Probably do to how windows works for the logged in user. So at least I can fix things like the horrible windows 11 right click menu
I do a lot of things that some might brand OCD, but they just make sense to me.
For example, my clothes are placed in the (walk-in) closet by categories/subcategories: “nice” separate from “yard work”, long sleeved separate from short sleeved, winter separate from summer, etc.
Our (multiple) vehicles each have designated parking spots (we live in the country and have lots of space).
I keep bills in my wallet so they are all oriented the same, in groups of denomination.
Etc. But these are small things that allow me to feel somewhat in control.
On the other hand, my father-in-law recently died, my mother-in-law moved to managed care, and our house is currently piled with boxes of their belongings while we sort and we dispose of them. So I need some pockets of organization.
@macromeh Ooof. My partner of 20 years died in 2018, and I’m still sorting through what I now call “the debris field” left behind. There’s some trash, there’s a very small amount of treasure, and a large category of things someone may find useful which I’d prefer to rehome within the tribe before consigning to the thrift system. Merely addressing the task is a challenge all by itself, For Reasons.
@macromeh@werehatrack Yes that’s tough. My mother died last year at age 95 and was able to mostly live on her own, but fortunately had started to get rid of a lot of stuff and have friends and community groups to help her. But still I have a house to sort through looking for a few important things, mostly papers. (She was most worried about some items of jewelry, which I think we mostly found)… and I have a trust document but was there also a will? Pink slip for the car? Haven’t found those yet.
She was amazingly organized with things in multiple filing cabinets. But in looking for stuff I found a handwritten 1957 tax form, which was kind-of funny.
I was thinking I might have to take all the remaining papers into file boxes and sort through it later. Not sure I will get it done this Summer.
@macromeh@pmarin@werehatrack my dad had boxes and boxes of papers because he dealt with my grandma and grand aunts stuff when they went assisted living. So all their tax documents. Pensions. Forms on top of forms. all our tax documents from when we were kids. His mom’s stuff. There were a ton of boxes of paperwork when he died. He was fine with the computer but I think he wanted things in writing.
He knew it was coming for a year at least cause cancer is a bitch. IDK how they went through things but a bunch got shredded. There were a few boxes left over when Mom sold the house that she said needed to go so I just took them and burned them. I’m sure it was just social security numbers and various PII/PHI.
The title to the metro was signed. His mom’s healthcare was already turned over to my mom. Power of attorney etc. So all the important stuff he was able to deal with at least. That helped. There was still a lot though…
I’m careful to not label some types of habits as OCD. (@macromeh has given some good examples, I think.) I suspect there’s a real difference to people that have an OCD diagnosis. Maybe it’s my years of therapy or my tendency to be precise. Anyway, here’s an interesting article from Psychology Today
@ItalianScallion Yes, many of these could probably better be called superstitions, really. Like I do find myself avoiding the cracks in the sidewalk but it doesn’t cause me real distress.
@user84240034 In many Asian cultures 5 is a magic number for sets of things. Like 5 Sake cups in a gift box. (Looping back to the gift box question of earlier this week) I have a set of 5 Sake cups showing couples in perhaps sexual positions…
4 would not be good because it relates to a symbol for death. When my company made a machine largely sold to Asian countries, they skipped 4 completely and went directly to 5 instead.
I find I can’t not comment on really dumb questions asked on online forums
That is weird. Everyone knows 4 is the correct answer.
@yakkoTDI I thought the correct answer was 42.
@ItalianScallion @yakkoTDI
@tinamarie1974 @yakkoTDI Duh. I just remembered the reference to 4 and 5.
@ItalianScallion @yakkoTDI ??
@tinamarie1974 @yakkoTDI There. Are. Four. Lights!
One I didn’t notice until it was mentioned in a news story on the radio decades ago.
Left sock, right sock, right show and finally left shoe. Off is the reverse.
@yakkoTDI this is just efficient though?
My bathroom countertop in the master bath it has 4" tiles that are in a diamond pattern. I find that I set my cordless toothbrush, deodorant, cup, etc in the center of individual diamonds as a rule.
@chienfou that’s just… Symmetrical?
@unksol
@chienfou this seems reasonable.
how do you use the three seashells though
@unksol
Sand dollar for scraping off caked on mud etc. Barnacles for exfoliating and getting off ground in dirt on feet when gardening in clogs…
@chienfou lol
/youtube three shells
@unksol
Nice. Guess I’ll have to watch that now
@chienfou Demolition man is solid for a 90s action movie containing Sandra Bullock or Arnold…speed was 94
I was 8 so I’m sure I saw it in on cable in college.
I take a lot of walks, and often notice myself changing my gait to avoid the lines in the sidewalk. Sometimes I have to consciously avert my attention from where I’m stepping.
@JasonToon just being a good son/daughter then lol
@JasonToon @unksol sometimes when I’m walking on the sidewalk i try to get past the driveway before a car drives by, so there’s always grass between me and the traffic.
@ybmuG I never thought about this, but now I will every time I take a walk.
There are several CDO things I do. Some of them are weird even by my standards. One of the more benign is the fact that there is a small Rubik’s cube sitting here which has been scrambled and solved exactly once, and no one is allowed to mess with it ever again, because it now is as it should be.
I’m similar with volume, and my new car annoys me because there’s no number on the volume level only an uncountable bar. In our other car, I do 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, etc.
Our A/V receiver does 0.5 increments of negative dB, so I do things like -30.0, -28.0, -27.5, -25.0, -24.0, -22.5, -22.0, etc.
@gnafuthemeh Similar, but I am compelled to use a volume setting that is a prime number (most often 17 or 19).
@gnafuthemeh @macromeh I believe 11 is the traditional correct number if your’re going prime
That I don’t know of? Not that I know of, no.
/giphy doesn’t look like anything to me
Many, so many. Some things belong just so. Other similar things I can ignore completely. I don’t freak out if things are not right but it catches my attention and distracts me until it is fixed.
Low level upset/anger when someone is not doing something “right” even if the wrong way is just different rather than actually wrong. Strong desire to tell them to do “my” way that I have to try and suppress.
I lose control of some filters if I am sleep deprived. Also I am not a morning person, you have been warned
I mean I impulsive set the volume at even numbers but I’m aware of it.
I believe someone pointed it out to me but… Going up two notches at a minimum makes sense
This all seems normal to me. You are all fine. About 20 years ago, I was ringing someone up who said something along the lines of I know you never worked at a bank because the bills in the register are facing different directions. And I was like ooh, I can put all the bills in the same direction? That sounds amazing. And it was.
@mossygreen I worked at a hobby lobby in my teens for … $5.15 an hour I think. Minmum wage. No barcodes. Key it all in based on stickers. Call for/go get a price if it didnt have one. Explain to people “no that was not on sale or was just near it That’s not what the add says”
I do not recall if I orriented my bills. We had to count our drawers/ l allign them in my wallet…
I refuse to have any icons on my computer desktop. (Yes, this includes No Trashbin!) The desktop is a picture with a bar at the bottom containing icons I use frequently, along with popup windows for things I use less often. Every time there’s an update to something that leaves an icon on my desktop, I destroy it immediately. I am downright maniacal about this.
I’ve had people look at the screen in puzzlement: “But, where is everything?” I give them my best witch’s cackle, rub my hands, and say: “You will never find it!”
My computer screen:
@rockblossom I would probably find it. I still prefer to run through the regular Programs menu for the stuff I don’t keep docked in the taskbar. A cluttered desktop just becomes a way of hiding things in plain sight, not a fast-access resource.
@werehatrack Back when I had to deal with other people’s computer problems, I found a screen so covered in icons that the desktop image wasn’t visible at all. Finding anything was like a game of Where’s Waldo? The computer was 8 years old and had never had anything deleted, so the new program she was trying to load wouldn’t fit. It took me almost 2 hours to clean the thing up without deleting the things she needed to keep. When I asked why she hadn’t erased the unused/obsolete icons, she looked surprised and said: “Oh! I’m allowed to do that?”
@rockblossom @werehatrack I was working remotely for many years and always said I’ll just provide and manage my own laptop. Then they changed rules (maybe understandable security reasons) and said We will ship you a new laptop and we will manage it!
Stuff would appear and disappear all the time! It was very un-nerving.
@pmarin
@rockblossom I don’t think there were any of us (in engineering anyway) that didn’t just have masking tape over the camera all the time. The management and sales guys would use video for meetings but nobody else did.
@pmarin @rockblossom current laptop has a sliding cover for the camera at least. I used to also disable it in device manager too. They took our admin access this year so we can’t install anything, even approved software. Have to create a ticket/go through the help desk. We are software engineers bro…
For some reason though we can still run regedit. Probably do to how windows works for the logged in user. So at least I can fix things like the horrible windows 11 right click menu
I do a lot of things that some might brand OCD, but they just make sense to me.
For example, my clothes are placed in the (walk-in) closet by categories/subcategories: “nice” separate from “yard work”, long sleeved separate from short sleeved, winter separate from summer, etc.
Our (multiple) vehicles each have designated parking spots (we live in the country and have lots of space).
I keep bills in my wallet so they are all oriented the same, in groups of denomination.
Etc. But these are small things that allow me to feel somewhat in control.
On the other hand, my father-in-law recently died, my mother-in-law moved to managed care, and our house is currently piled with boxes of their belongings while we sort and we dispose of them. So I need some pockets of organization.
@macromeh Ooof. My partner of 20 years died in 2018, and I’m still sorting through what I now call “the debris field” left behind. There’s some trash, there’s a very small amount of treasure, and a large category of things someone may find useful which I’d prefer to rehome within the tribe before consigning to the thrift system. Merely addressing the task is a challenge all by itself, For Reasons.
@macromeh @werehatrack Yes that’s tough. My mother died last year at age 95 and was able to mostly live on her own, but fortunately had started to get rid of a lot of stuff and have friends and community groups to help her. But still I have a house to sort through looking for a few important things, mostly papers. (She was most worried about some items of jewelry, which I think we mostly found)… and I have a trust document but was there also a will? Pink slip for the car? Haven’t found those yet.
She was amazingly organized with things in multiple filing cabinets. But in looking for stuff I found a handwritten 1957 tax form, which was kind-of funny.
I was thinking I might have to take all the remaining papers into file boxes and sort through it later. Not sure I will get it done this Summer.
@macromeh @pmarin @werehatrack my dad had boxes and boxes of papers because he dealt with my grandma and grand aunts stuff when they went assisted living. So all their tax documents. Pensions. Forms on top of forms. all our tax documents from when we were kids. His mom’s stuff. There were a ton of boxes of paperwork when he died. He was fine with the computer but I think he wanted things in writing.
He knew it was coming for a year at least cause cancer is a bitch. IDK how they went through things but a bunch got shredded. There were a few boxes left over when Mom sold the house that she said needed to go so I just took them and burned them. I’m sure it was just social security numbers and various PII/PHI.
The title to the metro was signed. His mom’s healthcare was already turned over to my mom. Power of attorney etc. So all the important stuff he was able to deal with at least. That helped. There was still a lot though…
I’m careful to not label some types of habits as OCD. (@macromeh has given some good examples, I think.) I suspect there’s a real difference to people that have an OCD diagnosis. Maybe it’s my years of therapy or my tendency to be precise. Anyway, here’s an interesting article from Psychology Today
8 Myths About OCD – Things people commonly misunderstand about obsessive compulsive disorder
@ItalianScallion Yes, many of these could probably better be called superstitions, really. Like I do find myself avoiding the cracks in the sidewalk but it doesn’t cause me real distress.
@ItalianScallion @Kyeh gotta protect Mom’s back
I buy things and even food in pairs, no odd numbers. Like two smaller burgers instead of one larger one.
@user84240034 In many Asian cultures 5 is a magic number for sets of things. Like 5 Sake cups in a gift box. (Looping back to the gift box question of earlier this week) I have a set of 5 Sake cups showing couples in perhaps sexual positions…
4 would not be good because it relates to a symbol for death. When my company made a machine largely sold to Asian countries, they skipped 4 completely and went directly to 5 instead.
We had a 1,2,3,V,6,and 7. I retired before 8.