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8:44pm June 2, 2014

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the-orb-weaver:

Social justice stuff can really do havoc with OCD tendencies. Because there is no hard and fast limit at “what’s okay” and it’s really easy to spin stuff out into “not okay” based upon really, really weird logic. And you can really make yourself crazy with it. And if you don’t have experience with…

Wow yes.  I am actually glad that my OCD is much less severe as an adult.  When I was younger, part of my OCD took the form of something like this:

* Any statement that sounded like it was a statement of fact, had to be followed to the letter, even if it made no sense.

* If you had two contradictory statements of fact, your mind exploded like a Star Trek computer fed a paradox.

It was really, really bad, and I’m glad my mind isn’t as prone to that now as it was then, or i’d find social justice rules utterly unbearable.