Post #4103694
2026-06-29 22:49 UTC
The fucked up thing about having #OCD and #autism is... Being autistic often means you miss out on these vaguely defined social queues... You get traumatised by how people react and you try and do better.
This often leads to OCD, we obsess in outlandish detail about how every little thing could be interpreted to avoid ostracisation...
Then finding yourself in OCD therapy, trying to unlearning what you learnt to stop yourself from getting hated by everyone.
Its exhausting. #ActuallyAutistic
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@hexmaniacmarcy@gaygeek.social 2026-07-26 03:48
@QueerMatters@mstdn.social yes!! found out recently that i (probably) have #OCD i think the combination of OCD and #autism is so interesting!! one thing i'm pretty sure is a compulsion is apologizing often and unnecessarily. but i never understood when i might be doing something wrong because of the autism!! so i overcorrected HARD, until i felt like i had to apologize over every little thing. it's gotten a little better (and this is a relatively tame example) but i super get what you mean!