That is so true. I like my things organized and neat. I'm not OCD, I'm organized and neat.

There are degrees in regards to the strength of the compulsion. Some people are only OCD about certain things, and are able to restrain themselves (e.g: not eating a certain amount of a type of food that adds up to an odd number, yet not caring how many bites they take of it.) Some people have to have everything organized a certain way, but only a small portion of those people will grow shaky and frantic when it gets messed up-- others will just try to fix it as calmly as possible, or not be affected by it being messy at all, just fix it with no problem. So some people are more OCD than others. An example of extreme extreme OCD is a person like Hannelore from Questionable Content. Everything sets her off. And example of mild OCD is a person like Fudge Hatcher from Judy Blume's books, where he counts out an exact number of cheerios each morning, but nothing else.

^ I agree. I have mild OCD but I don't need to count anything out like that. I just can't think straight when things aren't organized. Probably explains why I'm such a grammar Nazi.

#104 I know that there are degrees of OCD and that people are only OCD about some things. For example, I don't care about the order of things. However, I will turn light switches on and off a certain number of times or step on cracks on the sidewalks a certain number of times, etc. I'm not as mild as Fudge, but I'm nowhere near as bad as Hannelore. I don't have every compulsion that exists. But I'm just saying, OCD isn't an occasional state of mind, as so many people seem to think it is. People who don't have OCD use the term as though it was something that comes and goes.