omg yes i have had pretty severe ocd for as long as i remember being alive looking back there were very clear signs of this from when i was a young child -- for example i pulled out every single one of my eyelashes when i was 7 -- but i didnt put the pieces together until i took some psych class in high school that described some of the symptoms i mentioned to my mom that i thought i had ocd which was totally brushed off and eventually even turned into a joke among my family members my bedroom was often messy so how could i possiblyyyy have ocd according to them i just love being dramaticdifferent   note i come from a very loving close-knit familyi would never describe them as any type of abusive and i know they care about me deeply but they are historically terrible when it comes to understanding my struggles with mental health i also have heavy adhd  have been dealing with depression for most of my life  i wasnt officially diagnosed with ocd until i was around 23i was applying to grad school and finally decided to talk to my doctor about the adhd i knew i had but was never actually medicated for because that too was brushed off by my mom on account of my being too smart to have that well anywayturns out i very have both   i didnt mean to make this so long but i say all that to say it is so gd frustrating how little everyone understands ocd i try not to make a huge deal about my triggersquirks in public but people inevitably notice stuff ifwhen i decide to share that oh i actually have ocd the response i get like almost every time is omg me too like if that picture was crooked on the wall id definitely fix it  you should see how neat my bedroom is  i like always have to double check that i turned my iron off    i have a couple of friends who are actually sympathetic to the issue  understand that its a really difficult part of my life but a lot of my friends are frankly just complete dicks and still dont treat ocd as a legitimate disorder no matter how muchhow often i try to explain but dont worry theyll still post about the importance of mental health on national mental health day for instagram  just an example since im already on a tangent here but a few weeks ago i was away with some of those  friends for a weekend trip one of my things is a magic number issue -- its probably the lowest ranked in severity of all my triggers but its one thats followed me since i was little -- i cant set anything to an even number microwave times tv volume thermostat etc anyway someone asked to turn the temperature up to 70° i was closest so i simply went over to the thermostat and set it to 71° i didnt say a word but almost immediately i was bombarded with how stupid it was for me to care about the number it was set to like what could possibly happen if you just put it on 70  insinuations that i only did that to try to be different they also still drop comments like yeah i was soooo ocd at work yesterday no you were not you were not so obsessive compulsive disorder yesterday its fucking exhausting