Anyone with OCD?

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Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong place.

Just wanted you guys to share your experiences, if possible. Is it common for aspies to also have OCD?

I don't have it, but I've heard that it's very common. Closely related to repetitive behaviour I suppose.

I have it, unfortunately. I take medication for it, and it helps me keep things under control for the most part. The majority of my issues are in my head, like repetitive thoughts that are disturbing. I used to count by fours and sevens or pray non-stop until they went away. Usually it has to do with smells, and I have a whole routine I have to do if I smell something I dont like, or if I feel like there are bad things to inhale. Most of the time Ill get a need to do something or else something won't 'be right'. I know thats vague, its difficult to explain. I used to not want to leave my house for fear of something bad happening or scared I would have a panic attack if I was over-stimulated, which Im not sure is OCD related or aspie related. I'm still in the process of working out if I'm on the spectrum. But I've heard its common to have if you are.

I think around 30% of people with ASD have OCD as a comorbid.

I don't have a Dx of either but am waiting for an assessment for ASD but suspect I have the obsessional side of OCD , I may have neither and just a personality disorder , a type of schizophrenia that hasn't been researched yet or I'm just a complete wack job.

I have OCD. I used to have it with lots of different things. For example I would check my email obsessively. I had an obsession with porn & I didn't enjoy it that much, it was more about DLing(hoarding), organizing, & sharing it. I screwed up my 1st two relationships cuz I was extremely obsessed with them & had thoughts in my head that bad things were going on that likely weren't which caused anxiety & panic attacks that caused me to become very controlling. I also had a hard time getting over things cuz I kept stalking their online activity & I didn't really want to but the thoughts wouldn't leave. Shortly after my 2nd relationship ended I realized my OCD was causing issues & researched meds to treat it. I started taking Neurontin/Gabapentin & it helped alot thou I still have some issues. I got into my current relationship shortly after & things are going ALOT better partly cuz of being on that med as well as Buspar for my anxiety & it kind of helps that she's clingy & needy too even thou she's not as sever as me.

I have severe OCD, but I have become very good at controlling it.

Oh yes, I have it and it causes me more problems than being AS. The two seem very closely linked.

I was diagnosed with it in 6th grade.

Yup, I have it.

Not diagnosed with it, but I sure do have a lot of symptoms of it, ever since I was a little kid.

One of my first obsessions involved the number 3. If I said it too much, looked at it too long, or even thought about it too much, I was afraid bad things will happen, like growing a 3rd leg. Throughout the day, I’d repeat a list of things I did not want to happen, and the List eventually grew to be quite long. Often at night, I’d be awake because I felt that no matter how I repeated the List, I didn’t do it good enough to guarantee those things won’t happen. Later, I moved on to other stuff.

My wife thought I might have OCD like she did but she realized I didn't after we were together for a year or two. Like many Aspies I'd have routines, but for me they were actually optional. OCD routines aren't optional.

If someone with OCD has a ritual with a stove, and they move to someplace without one, a new routine replaces it.