OCDish tendancies. [That does NOT goe there]

Well, I have in interest suddenly in knowing what your best coding practices are. Well, it could be any best practice really, but what are those quirky little optional ways you do things that just seem to bring out the OCD in you.

Like, when I code, if I am pulling in information from a database or through and argument, I always add some Turkish style prefix to delimit where it is coming from, like db_intVariableName. It has been a life saver in larger apps that other people love to dive it and touch. So when I come back later and find that my code was mutilated, I feel like she has been disloyal and is now completely uncouth. The funny thing is, I don't care how it looks in other people's code.

I do this on WoW as well. Since you get Ten slots per server, and there are five races, I like to play one of each sex of each race. With the Dork Knight coming out, we are going to have a total of ten classes. It all works out, sadly.

The ocd comes in with my needing to have the male female pairs in order all the way down. I have deleted many a 50 lvl plus for the sake of order. I have human male, human female, dwarf male, dwarf female, etc, etc.

So I leave it to you, where is your OCD?

When I GOE to the movie theater I have to get the exact middle seats. Middle row, middle seat. I feel all uncomfy if I don't get it.

I completely label every single one of my music files with all information I can possibly find on each of them. I have had over 15,000 music files at one time labeled completely and it took several days to get it that way.

I do not like my food to touch. Ever.

Is the door locked? Yes. Okay good. Wait, is it locked? Yes. Okay good. Is the door locked? Yes. Okay good.

That's my reaction to any door that needs locking, be it bathroom, front door, prison cell, et cetera. I am a freak.

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

Is the door locked? Yes. Okay good. Wait, is it locked? Yes. Okay good. Is the door locked? Yes. Okay good.

That's my reaction to any door that needs locking, be it bathroom, front door, prison cell, et cetera. I am a freak.

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God yes. Especially with my car door.

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Originally Posted by Rye

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

Is the door locked? Yes. Okay good. Wait, is it locked? Yes. Okay good. Is the door locked? Yes. Okay good.

That's my reaction to any door that needs locking, be it bathroom, front door, prison cell, et cetera. I am a freak.

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God yes. Especially with my car door.

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Same here. I'm notorious for locking my car, then walking half of the parking lot, then running back JUST to make sure.

I usually use a specific spoon when eating. Or if I'm at a different place, I make sure the spoon and fork matches, neither is bent/crooked and must be stainless steel.

I skip one a step on the stairs. So I usually step on the even numbered steps.

I always make sure that my right feet touches the ground first whether walking, climbing stairs (esp the stairs) or running.

I always close the doors of our house, especially if I'm all alone. I don't like getting disturbed.

I always make a face when I dislike doing something (my lips are bentupwards, almost touching the nose) followed by a long, high ptiched 'hmph'

I always do a 'ninja hand sign' everytime I want to do something.

This is where I get weird.

If I have a mess in my room, I think about cleaning it but I never really get around to it. But, if someone moves ANYTHING off my floor or on my desk, I know. And I freak out.

I'm also a freak about alphabatizing my books by author's last name.

My psychology teacher would beat you to death because she'd explain that OCD is in fact the disorder while being OC is a perfectly common thing.

I have OCD, so yeah, there's way to much to list here.

But let's see if I can get them all! Atleast the one's I have insight with!

I love quarters, I hate any other form of change so if I have like 20$ in pennies and 2 quarters, I'll throw the pennies away and keep the quarters. I don't like pennys or dimes or nickles.
I -always- have 6 dollars in my pocket, a five and a one, no matter what.
I leave the house at quarters of the hour unless I have no choice, so :15 and :45. I don't like leaving the house at straight up on the hour, why? I just don't.
I eat bags of chips 1/3rd down then move to the next, I personally believe all the bad chips are at the bottom and I do not want to eat bad chips.
I don't like any foreign substance on my food and will -NOT- eat it, for example, if you flick some water into my soda, it's time for a new soda.
I have an utter fear of the unknown, so if I'm doing something that's not in my rituals I have massive panic attacks. Not only that, but if it's something that is going to end up being a ritual (like riding a bus to go to work) I -have- to have someone come with me the first time because I do not know the route and because of that I feel -extremely- unsafe and panicky.
Once I get the route down, I'll only leave the house at certain times, normally before 5pm and after 1pm, preferably 2:45pm.
I can't stand water on my hands or face, even when in the shower I will -constantly- get a towel and wipe my hands and face off.
I can't stand things being moved, -ever-. I actually had a panic attack once because my husband offered to clean the house while I was at school and I ended up crying because the idea of coming home to a house where things were moved is a horrible horrible horrible thing. If so much as a bowl is moved from a table, I will see it and I will freak out.
I like things in 3's and numbers that can make a triangle, I also like triangles, if I can set my house up in a way where things are placed in a triangle setting then I have a happy house.
I tend to have a messy house stand moving things, usually I'm forced to clean, and yes I am a horder. I horde things and I love all those things.
I never wear shoes in the house but have to wear shoes if I leave the carpet, the idea of my feet getting dirty scares me.
If I have an ingrown hair or something, I'll basically butcher my leg until I get it.
Everything I do every day, is a ritual and it has been being done for months or even years. I could easily tell you my day schedule and have it right on the dot.

And now I'm freaking out from thinking about that. I know there's more but the idea of all the above is scarring me to death.


Also, here's one I was going to make an EoEo post about but this is a good place for it.

THE IDEA OF NEW ORLEANS SCARES ME, THE PLACE WAS DESTROYED AND A FILTH POT AND TOXIC AND STUFF, and ehh. Well my mom wanted to stay the night there when we went to go to my husbands graduation and I don't like that. I had a major panic attack because just thinking about staying in a place that was destroyed and dirty and filthy and toxic and scarry and like the apocalpyse scares the hell out of me and I would probably break down crying if I stepped foot out of the car when we drive through there, I'll probably freak out just driving through there, the utter though of it is freaking me out. I can't do that , it's not like another town that's happy and not destroyed and normal and. Uh. Jesus Christ.
Needless to say, we're not saying -anywhere near- New Orleans, My mom was like "That means we'll have to drive further" and yeah I don't care, just no. No no. I'd rather be put in prison then have to be in New Orleans for more than 15 minutes.

I've always mildly thought that I may have OCD, due to the sheer number of things that I'm OC about (and the oddity about them), but I've never gotten it checked out.

1. When I'm walking on concrete paths that have little squares of concrete I have to take two steps per square, even if I have to take abnormally long steps to do so.
2. If I'm walking on a concrete path that has curbs, I have to walk on the curb, once again walking two steps per square. If the terrain or surface is slightly different, I adjust it so that I have the same number of steps per rectangle or square.
2. My DVDs are alphabetized, and have to be. Absolutely have to be. This is strange because there are few other things that I really care about being neat. Other than this, I'm a pig.
3. On my computer, my music HAAAAAS to have all of its id tags filled out and filed in My Music by Artist -> Album -> Song Title. The ID tags include lyrics.
4. If I do not have a thumb pick I will refuse to play the guitar. This is about a year old obsession. When I first started playing I used flat picks. I cannot use those anymore, and absolutely must use a thumb pick.
5. This is not quite to obsession level, but I have to be the first one done with a test. If I suspect another person is almost done, I will rush through the rest of my test so that I'm the first one done. I get mad when I'm not the first.
6. Other people probably do this as well, but the four PS2 memory cards I have are for specific things. I have one for sports games, one for adventure games, one for Guitar Hero, and one for RPGs.
7. In general, I'm extremely obsessive. I cannot simply like something, whether it be a musical artist or a movie or a toy line or an idea. I have to research and learn EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT IT. I know my favorite musical artists like few others know theirs.

I'm generally obsessive about arranging things in what I seem to consider clean numbers (multiples of five). This is extremely frustrating in FFXI where the maximum number of most items you can have in a stack is twelve.

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Originally Posted by Bunny

I completely label every single one of my music files with all information I can possibly find on each of them. I have had over 15,000 music files at one time labeled completely and it took several days to get it that way.

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Yeah, I'm obsessive about that too. Bugs me when my friends don't have everything as organized, like when they just download something from Limewire and it doesn't have anything except the title part of the tag filled out.

Everything must, MUST be perpendicular or parallel with everything else when I rearrange things.

The only thing I can think of that could be slightly OCD is how I obsessively keep train tickets/club tickets/cinema tickets. I just.. like to keep them xD

I don't have any preference with stacking things though, things just go anywhere.