Obsessive compulsive traits

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I do lots of things in a fairly OCD way. Brushing my teeth, for example: I brush the outsides, then the insides, then the biting surfaces, then the front teeth, then the back teeth. Every time. I have other little rituals like that for cooking, dressing, showering and so forth, but whilst I like to stick to them it doesn't upset me terribly if I can't.

I used to be a lot more OCD when I was a little kid. I had to chew my macaroni and cheese in a certain way, swallow a certain number of times on the bus to school, etc., but I've outgrown all that now.

ok here's mine. i have to "test" my food before i eat it. seriously. it has to look and smell right before i will eat it. i know how the orange thing is too. i will not eat anything orange or red except for raviolees and ketchup. i refuse to eat sauce both because it tastes nasty and because in order to eat it i would have to mix it in with my spageti. no food items may touch. i cant stand cat hair anywhere near the keyboard. i have an obsession with trying to clean the keyboard. (very hard considering the hair is actually deep underneath the keys from having cats for so long.)

Ive got lost heres a few
Food on plates cant touch the other foods unlessed ment to [chicken pot pie]
only eat one food at a time
pefer bowls to plate with one for each thing
if i look at a smoke deterctor in my house or any were else have to wait for it to blink red so i know its working most do it every sixty seconds
cammera counting in stores
touching telephone poles cant just walk by

I've had a lot of obsessive compulsions throughout my life, although I am getting better about it. However, I suffer depression sometimes, and when I do, the obsessiveness comes roght back in full force. A few things of mine:

Doing everything in even numbers. I can't stand odd numbers (except for 3 and 17), and when there's an odd number of things, it really upsets me. I remember when I was little and the doctor gave me three Smarties (candy) as a reward for being brave, I could only take two of them because of the number. If there's an odd number, I would always have to do complex mathematics inside my head until I could turn it into an even number (doubling it wasn't enough, because double = 2, and 2 plus the original number makes it odd again). I don't do this anymore, although odd numbers still REALLY bug me and I try to avoid them as much as possible.

Never turning in a full circle. If I turned around completely (eg, in the shower), I would then have to turn around completely in the opposite direction before moving on, to 'undo' it. I still do this sometimes.

Joined up handwriting. I would freak out if anyone (myself included) didn't join up a letter properly. Eg, the letter 'o' with a gap in it. I would literally have to reach over and 'correct' the other students' handwriting if I saw it. This was just something that really aggitated me, although I'm better about it now.

Lining up books - I would always have to push all the books back until they touched the back of the shelf, or pull them forward so the spines all lined up.

Getting sick. I'm somewhat emetophobic (phobia of throwiung up), although, like with everything else, I've become so much better. The phobia came very close to ruining my life at one point. I had so many rituals attached to safeguarding myself from throwing up. It was paralysing.

The color blue. I'd always have to have my 'magic' blue marble with me or I'd panic.

Taking the same route. Very much an Aspie thing, I think, but it became like an obsessive compulsion too.

I also have obsessive irrational thoughts that I'll think about hundreds of times during the day.

On a bad day, I have real obsessiveness about the exact way I write things. I'll have to type things up two or three times, changing one word or a few words. Eg, if I wrote "He was cheerful", I might have to change it to "He was in a good mood", just because 'cheerful' felt wrong and if I left it that way, something awful would happen. I have this problem sometimes when (occasionally) talking online to internet friends. It'll take me 5 minutes to reply, because one word seems wrong.

I'm sure there's more But I'm slowly overcoming them and I'm so much better than I was.

I think I may have OCD. I may not be as germ-watching as some people, but I do tend to wash my hands more often than some. But, I think it's more of a ruitine. One, I have to practice each day on my trombone, or else I feel as if something is missing all day, then I have to go running or else I feel really bad because I feel as if I'm failing myself (but I'm not sure if that's part of OCD). I also have to eat my carrots at lunch first, then fruit, then milk, and last the main dish (unless there's a dessert, so then I'd eat that last). I also used to have to put the caps on my markers when I was little whenever I drew a line, making homework in kindergarten kind of long. Plus, in elementary school (especially in fourth grade), I used to put a pencil or something to mark the spot of a crayon, because I'd always want crayons (and more) to retain their original order when I first got them. Another thing that I did when I was younger was that I'd have to line all of my stuffed animals at the end of my bed in an exact order whenever I went to bed. One thing I also am (and was) is an extreme perfectionist. I have to make almost everything perfect, but now I don't think it's as bad as a few years ago. Like in fifth grade, I'd have to make everything realistic, like during my medieval lesson when we had to make projects, I wanted to construct a castle out of real stone (I didn't though, thank God!) Plus, all my drawings from then were in extreme detail (and they still are) because I like perfection, and I like to make things seem real. But now that I get the concept of art, I understand that art doesn't have to look real to be art. Anyways, I probably have more traits but I can't think of much of them at the moment.

Not really. Things just need to look right.