The teacher will get sick. Period.

They DO have to, that's what OCD does. It's irrational.

Your teacher decided you had OCD? I'm pretty sure it wasn't her place to say, and I'm also pretty sure she's not qualified to make a decision like that. I'm not saying you don't have it, I'm just baffled that your teacher would decide it.

She was a really nosed woman. It was more like my girl scout leader. They were talking to eachother on a bench and she saw me do it and she told my mom it looked like OCD.

At my school, we have blue lines stretching across the carpet, and I can't step on them. Since I got into the building in tenth grade (we have a seperate freshman center), it's been many different peoples goal to make me walk on them. It's absolutely awful. Everytime I do hit one on accident, I'm freaking out the rest of the day.

Troll Trevay got trolled by the mods. Nice.

So does that make me weird for not feeling the urge to cough when someone else does?

'If you had an OCD you would fight about it.' 'OCD is something you don't notice.' 'OCDs are something that you can control.' Nothing you are saying makes sense, and you're kind of contradicting yourself. How would you fight about something you don't notice? And why fight about it anyway if it's something you can control?

Yea, this was a big bucket of fried fail. Move along, people, nothing to see here.

I did not contradict myself. I also did not say that and OCD is something that you can control. All the OCDs that I mentioned in my reply are my own and I have been called out on. My reply to many MANY friends and room mates that been that "IT JUST NEEDS TO BE DONE THIS WAY". Most times I would be a person arguing about these things. But these are things that are preformed with an inanimate object and that is an OCD. OCD are things that you can control over and over and over again. When something is a physical sensation in the body or something you physically do because someone else does it that is not and OCD but a compulsion of a habit that has been developed. We as people Yawn when others do because of a habit trigger in our brains. The frequency with how much we yawn when others do depends on the relationship with that person. The frequency that we copy other peoples actions depends on a deep rooted psychological connection to the people who are closest to us in life. If I cough and someone else coughs that I don't know in a room of 20 people it can be said that person doesn't have a close relationship to their family. If I cough in a room of 100 people and and one person coughs it can be said that they felt a tingle in their throat that they didn't know they needed to clear till someone else coughed. If you feel that you need to physically do something every time that someone else does something it is an in grained trait that you have learned somewhere or thought it needed to be learned to do. That is not an OCD that is a complex based on inherent learning. An OCD is not learned, it does not rely on outside influence. It is something that is created in a mind as system of control. A control against inanimate objects. When it involves a person or outside physical influence it is a psychosis and requires either treatment or a bit of conditioning. For example my mother always chews with her eyes closed so I picked that up from her. So in school I always chewed with my eyes closed till I started getting picked on. Now when I chew food I have a twitch in my left eye. Not an ocd but a psychosis. Something that can be treated. If someone coughs and you need to, or someone clears their throat and you need to it's a LEARNED behavior and can be unlearned. OCD deals with control of the world around you with inanimate objects. BTW In my dish washer the ratio of spoons and forks in the rack have to be even 1:1. If not then I have a spoon or a fork sitting in the sink. See CONTROL!

I've never felt the need to cough or clear my throat when hearing someone else do it. That's not normal. You either have a mirroring problem (which usually only happens with someone you find attractive) or OCD.

So if someone likes to stab someone and another person sees it and stabs someone it's OCD or a mirroring problem. Yea I see the logic there. Ok really I don't see the logic and have a problem with that line of thinking. Overly Compulsive Disorder is not a mental condition that rely's on Newtons law of "For every action there is a counter action". OCD is the bye product of standards that a person lives by. "I do a physical thing the same way every time I get a result" It is that a line of thinking that "Every time that I do X then Y will happen" Every single time! Not "Because someone did this I have to do the same thing". You do something because you know that you will get the result every single time. EVERY TIME. When I sharpen my pencil three rotations in a manual sharpener I know I will get the tip I think I need of the pencil. If my DVD is placed in the DVD player so the label is upside down to me it will play flawlessly every time. If I put my socks on left one first and my shoes right one first i'll have a great day at work. If I put my belt on my pants before I zip and button my pants my shirt will tuck in just right. THOSE ARE OCDs. You do something because you will get and expected result and you do them the same way every single time exactly the same way and if something goes wrong you YOU did something wrong. That is OCD. I do something because everytime I did it before I got a positive result. If I don't get a positive result than I didn't do it right. OCD is not NOT copying people. NOT doing something because someone else did it and got a positive result.

Trevay, calm the **** down man. No ones listening anymore.

Also, Overly Compulsive Disorder? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought OCD meant Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Trevay is just trolling, guys. And yes, it IS called Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Gonna have to say **** you Kallian because this is the first thing that has caused me a bit of concern in FML. I read this site every day for some amusement as well as inspiration and when some one thinks that they have something wrong with them they need to be pointed in the right direction. I have a couple .... more like a dozen OCDs as well as a few psychosis issues. First and foremost I have a bad twitch in my left eye because of trying to close my eyes while eating like my mother still does. I clear my throat a lot when others do or cough because it was common in my own house. It's getting better but it's tough when you are 34 and trying to fix things. Things like this are not OCD just not! They are a learned reaction and can be fixed. OCDs cannot. IF you had an OCD about books being in descending height or ascending height in your book case that's an ocd. If you need your knives in your kitchen drawer to be in a certain order EVERY TIME thats an ocd. IF you have to have your underwear to be folder a certain way after being washed and if they weren't you had to rewash them THAT IS AN OCD If you have to COUGH cause some one else did you have a psychological reaction to an outside influence to something you CAN'T control. That is not OCD. Wiki OCD, Call a doctor, call and therapist and they will tell you the same thing. An OCD you have control over or you make control over. If you react to outside influence it is not an OCD. Good Night and F off!

Trevay you have a form of sickness called stupidity. You're not born with it, it slowly grows through out your life depending on what environment you put yourself in. Sadly you can't fix or cure stupidity.

ICastillo I may be accused of being stupid (i'll admit it happens a lot) but with a little digging into my reply's (verbal and typed) I am often proven correct. Like I said previously this is my first series of replies to an FML and well, I know i'm correct. The op does not have an OCD because OCDs are PREVENTIVE. A person does a series of actions involving any number of items to prevent a negative action. OCDs are not a reaction they are a precaution. I do THIS because it will prevent THIS. Most people with an OCD don't even know what they are preventing until someone calls them out on it. The just do it because it works and continue to works without a negative reaction. Seriously People look up OCD somewhere else beside Wikipedia!

Having to cough every time someone else coughs is an uncontrollable obsession with compulsion. OCD is not just about hand washing, wall tapping or counting to prevent something. It can involve an intense focus on something that causes a compulsion that impedes normal functioning in life. It is about anxiety, hypersensitivity and stress. Look it up in the DSM IV.

Damn and here I was thinking that FML was a place where I could read people's stories about how great their lives are... I never expected a story where the person's life sucks...

Did you get sick a lot as a child? Washing your hands that much, you'll never build up immunity to anything. Same thing for people who use hand sanitizer too much.

I'm not so sure it's something you outgrow. My grandfather is 88, and has really severe OCD. My uncle is 59, same deal.

Some people don't actually have OCD, they have Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder. It's not as severe as OCD, but they have the tendencies of it. Ex: washing hands, organization, numbers. It becomes OCD when it takes up most of their day to where they cannot function properly. I've done a bit of research on it for a class.