Compulsivley doing Chores to make up for my Past.

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14 May 2006, 10:03 pm

I've been compuslivley doing chores, almost every day, for the past six Months. It was four Months ago that I've found out that I get really nervous and my body starts to shake, if I go three days without doing any big chores around the house. I was comming up with all kinds of excuses for my compulsive need to do some sort of chore, at least evert two days.

Here's a pathetic list of excuses:

You work so hard at McDonald's, Mom.
It helps me to burn the extra Weight Watchers Points that I eat out of Emotional Stress.
If I have a Brain and a Body that work, I might as well use them.
Busy Hands are Happy Hands!
I do it to show you that I'm not Mentally Challenged.
I love doing Chores!
It will help keep me from obsessing over my Favourite Bus(es).

The truth came out, when I was on my Laptop and watching 'Reba' with my Mom. I was making up a slogan that I might want to put on a T-Shirt, that read, "I Happily make up for my Childhood, by Joyfully doing Chores!" My Mom asked me what part of my Childhood that I'm making up for. I've told her that I was making up for being afraid to go Poo, when I was little and the Obsession that I've had with the U.S. And she asked me, "And Bunny Rabbits, the colour Green and Ladybugs?" I've confessed to her that's what it was. She said, "That's Kid Stuff!" The thing is that it was Autistic Kid Stuff, not Typical Kid Stuff and that's why I'm constantly doing chores.



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14 May 2006, 10:32 pm

Seems like nice things to do anyways.



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15 May 2006, 3:36 pm

I will complusively do house-cleaning when I meet a girl who I am interested in. So most of the time my apartment is a mess.



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15 May 2006, 4:06 pm

I also feel suffocated when everybody's home and the types of chores that I can do becomes very limited. My Dad doesn't like the Vaccum and he walks through the house with his shoes on.



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19 May 2006, 7:21 pm

I feel that I'm a bad person if I go one day, without doing chores. If I go for three days without doing something constructive, I feel even worse and I start shaking all over. I feel a need to make up for my Childhood and Early Adolecent-hood by doing chores all the time. I wasn't the most perfect kid in the world, and I drove my Parents crazy, when I was young. That's why I set a Daily Quota that I need to meet. I feel alive after I do my planned chores. If there's no way of getting any chores done, on a particular day, I feel dead, inside. I feel that I must do, at least an hour and a half of chores, before I happily dive into my obsessive thoughts of Pre-2003 London. I must feel a little Pain, before I enjoy a lot of Pleasure.



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14 Jun 2006, 10:20 pm

I've cut down on my Chores, by 30%. I still do enough of them to contribute to the Household. I no longer feel the need to be doing them, from Morning, to Night. I've accepted that I'll always have Obsessions, and I even working on a Colour Sketch of, are you ready for the big suprize? A Routemaster! I feel more relaxed, now than I did, when I was typing out my Original Posts for this thread, a Month ago. :D