explaining to people that i have OCD, so they stop laughing

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Membersix, she wrote it :

I remember going to someone's house and kindly being made a cup of tea (didn't want to appear rude by declining - which I ALWAYS do now).
The tea arrived in a scummy mug - which I could have handled.

But what really turned my stomach was the irridescent rainbow sheen of grease I could see floating on top of the tea.

Man, I'd rather have drunk my own you-know-what.

[quote="MemberSix"Doesn't change the fact that Autism, OCD, depression and anxiety are simply conditions Autism is genetic & it affects your personality, changing you at a very core level, therefor influencing your personality & interactions on every level. AS as a condition will not change, no matter what. Water analogy = If we as AS are the water, in the liquid state, then we contain we specific molecules, with very specific chemical differences, that make us water yet individual kinds of water. If you freeze the water then we still are the same water it's just our molecules are reorganized, but still containing the same chemical makeup, & the only way for us to lose those chemicals all together is to die thusly becoming Vapor (spirit)
just as OCD and Autism aren't part of who you are. Sure they are ... Some parts of the "condition" are changable. but others are not... if it can't be changed, then it IS part of you.

Autism isn't a personality trait. ~ no but it affects your personality, there is no cure, you can't get away from it, you can't put it down, & it is only changable to a certain point. Neither is OCD. OCD is treatable, however, some OCD's give comfort. Why give them up to make others more comfortable
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oops sorry membersix, i didnt understand you were talking about the washing up.

Quite a few Autistic children recover (poor choice of words, should be suffer less effect ) from Autism during a cold/fever - with a complete cessation of Autistic symptomologies. Additionally the children studied had 80% with some improvement & 30% had dramatic improvement however they did NOT quantify the study with the statistics of how impaired they were.

ONLY during the fever do the autistic tendencies decrease, when fever leaves so does the ability to be "recovered". It's called the "Fever Effect" THEY ARE NOT RECOVERED FROM. While the child is sick they have less Austic tendencies, but 1 week after the fever was gone the children returned to their former behavior. The researcher believe it may be due to the Immune system producing Cytokines. It could also be that the fevers are causing brain damage, a temporary .

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=16956039
http://photoninthedarkness.com/?m=200712
http://www.autismspeaks.org/community/f ... php?t=3552

That's how we know that it's a condition. <--- Inaccurate deduction... because with that way of thinking a NT person suffering from a fever could become delusional <--- does that mean the neurotypical brain fuction is a "condition"????? and the delusional state it their true state.

That it pervades so many aspects of your mental life makes it no less a condition. I will continue to think that my Autism not only is part of me but it makes me who I am... With your way of thinking "you are broken & suffering from a condition" Instead I am trying to accept it is as just part of me as a whole. I am recently dx'd as AS and with that dx a lot of the "why's" I am different are answered. All I have to do now is stop chasing the NT's idea of what I should be and start being happy with who I am. Realize I am different & that it is okay, find a way to function and excel in my differentness.

You're looking at it very subjectively. And your looking at it very inaccurately. [/quote]

Hey, I thought this thread was about OCD not about colds...

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You might try using humor as an answer...

Remember that most of us find humor in things that are different or out of place. To your family and friends, your OCD behavior is different or out of place, so to them it is humorous (be glad they don't find it alarming or disgusting!).

So, maybe you could go with it: "Yep, I'm OCD...gotta have a different cheese knife for every cheese or I break out in hives. You may think it's funny, but you're not the one who has to wash 132 pieces of cutlery after every party!"

If you play up the humanity-foible aspect of your behavior in a self-accepting, self-deprecating humorous, way, the world tends to respond with kindness and affection. Not ONE Of us on this planet doesn't have 'differences'. The key is to understand that the world sees us as slightly different and be okay with that and with ourselves.

...is a great bridge between people. Too bad our politicians don't understand that!