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I'm not really sure why I'm doing this but I thought I'd ask for opinions anyway.
I'm not sure if I might have a condition or not but I'd really like an explanation for it so I'll explain:
Ever since I can remember I've felt the need to spell out words and sentences in my head. I'll either use my feet (tapping them) or just imagining them. Like say someone says the word "Ball"; I would then tap my left foot - B, right - A and so on and it won't feel right to me unless it ends in me tapping my left foot. I am also obsessed with neatness and order. Like in work if we have 5 out of six glasses left I'll arrange it like the 5 on a dice.
Any thoughts on that?
I'm not sure if I might have a condition or not but I'd really like an explanation for it so I'll explain:
Ever since I can remember I've felt the need to spell out words and sentences in my head. I'll either use my feet (tapping them) or just imagining them. Like say someone says the word "Ball"; I would then tap my left foot - B, right - A and so on and it won't feel right to me unless it ends in me tapping my left foot. I am also obsessed with neatness and order. Like in work if we have 5 out of six glasses left I'll arrange it like the 5 on a dice.
Any thoughts on that?
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Rather than being something serious, I think they are just eccentric idiosyncracies (sp).
to what extent you do it is down to the individual.
It's like I'm a neglectful mother lol
I used to work as a behavioural therapist for young children with Autism and, as you might know, one part of autism is that often autistic children will like to do things like this - like lining things up in a row, having to have things in a certain pattern, having to look at things from a certain angle etc.
as partof our therapy, we didnt let the children do these things (for example, we want the child to drive the toy cars around normally not just line them up against the wall) and one day my colleagues and I were discussing it. we were discussing one little boy who liked to build a tower with his toy blocks but only in a certain pattern of colours and then I said well actually, if i build with the blocks, i want a certain pattern to the colours too and we all started talking about all the little things we do like that (like people have said here having left and right balanced, having even numbers etc etc) and discussing why for the children we didnt want them to do these things even tho we all did stuff like that.
what we decided was it all comes down to how it affects your life, like i want the blocks to be in a certain colour pattern, but if they are not in that pattern, i can cope with it, it doesnt really really distress me or interrupt me from carrying out my normal daily life.
so in my opinion, you're not crazy doing these things, we all do something like that, it is only a problem if it starts hindering your life in some way