If I Wear Matching Socks, My Parents Will Die In A Car Crash

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I believe strongly that if I wear matching socks, my parents will die in a car accident.
I have been told numerous times that this can not be true, but I refuse to risk it.
This was originally categorized as OCD, but that diagnoses has been trashed for quite some time.

Does anyone else have beliefs like this?
Please share if you do and why.

Thank you.

I'll assume that was humor c:

I have believed this since I was pretty young. Maybe eight or nine.
This is the only thought I have like this.
The only thing close is collecting heads-up pennies for fear of bad luck.

Sounds like Schizotypal Personality Disorder.

Hmm, I suppose so.
Though, I doubt if one thought is a diagnoses...

It's magical thinking. Makes you feel like you have some control.

I have something like that with gas station. specially in my town I do okay for road trips. The one time I HAD to stop at a gas station on my NO list I scratched up the side of my car. it sounds like OCD when I describe it but it is the aspie in me. really gas can be 1$ less at a no list gas station and I wouldn't stop. Think it is more about I know who I am expecting to be working when i walk in the door and less of something bad will happen.

One can have both and ASD and OCD... in fact, there is about a 60% comorbidity rate of ASD and OCD.

A lot of what is being described above (avoiding gas stations, wearing mismatched socks) seem like they are being done to neutralize an anxiety about an unfortunate situation. I agree with singularity's assertion that it give the illusion of some kind of control and is tantamount to "magical thinking". If it is so distressing, though, that it causes a serious (relative to the person) negative impact on your life, then this would certainly be OCD.

If you're not bothered by wearing mismatched socks or paying extra for gas, then go for it! No biggie! It sounds worthwhile to avoid the anxiety and just be happy! :0)

OCD thinking is one of the most perplexing anomalies I've ever seen. For my own self there's making sure utensils don't cross, checking to see I have keys in my pocket a few times before I lock the door, etc. The keys bit I acknowledge is based on real life. I've had to call a locksmith at least twice to let me in my apartment and my car. The utensils crossing is leftover from my mother who was religious and didn't like utensils crossing. Why I picked up that habit is a mystery to me.

My socks match and my dad died of cancer and my mum is still alive.

When in a car sometimes I visualise the car getting into a crash or flying off the bridge. Some very OCPD right there.

The only time I worried for the safety of others is when I was right in the middle of PTSD and I feared about them going out at night. No rituals came out of it though. They could have and I might have been less freaked out about everything, but nothing of the sort ever happened.

If I don't wear my clothes in rainbow order, I am going to die.

My mum babysat three siblings back in the 1980s. One time when I was 9, the oldest girl and child said "If you step on a crack, you'll break your mum's back!" I took what she said literally and started avoiding the cracks on the sidewalks. My mum asked one day, "Why are you doing that?" I answered, "I don't want to break your back!"

Guys, stop throwing diagnoses at the OP. Superstition is common to human beings in general. It's why baseball players wear their never-washed horribly grungy lucky socks. If lucky socks are a thing, why not unmatched socks? "I know it's illogical but I refuse to risk it" is classic superstitious reasoning.

I try not to think about scary things.

Yes!! Often when I'm going up the stairs in my home I believe I have to go fast, jumping 2 or more stairs at a time. If I don't reach the top in a sufficiently short time, I get this feeling something terrible will happen to my mother. Yes, I do have OCD as well.

Yes!! Often when I'm going up the stairs in my home I believe I have to go fast, jumping 2 or more stairs at a time. If I don't reach the top in a sufficiently short time, I get this feeling something terrible will happen to my mother. Yes, I do have OCD as well.