all of this i’ve always been rather messy and neither me nor my parents really knew because i had a friend who had it and she was the stereotype but it wasn’t her choice obviously and we saw that she was suffering we all thought that’s what ocd was   as a child i absolutely couldn’t have my food touching ever it gave me anxiety i had no idea that’s what the feeling was but my folks chalked it up to being picky i wouldn’t sleep unless the clock had a certain time on it that was just me being a kid who didn’t wanna go to bed   we finally realized with the school bus it had always come to my house at 615 on the dot one day it came at 612 and i panicked i didn’t understand why  i remember going to my therapist and her asking me a lot of questions that made me go “that’s how i feel i do that” i was diagnosed finally about 16-17 and have been on medication and therapy since   my compulsions have changed as i’ve gotten older things like food touching doesn’t bother me now but it feels like there’s always new challenges to face but i’m working thru it i’m glad that we didn’t stay buying into the media image