Also, the bears (especially the purple ones at the right most column) are crooked in their rows. Simply color coding things doesn’t make you have OCD, nor is it a mark of attention to detail. It is possible to have “obsessive compulsive tendencies” as opposed to full blown OCD, but color coding is not by default obsessive or compulsive, and the need to group by color or shape in this way would fall as close or closer to supporting a diagnosis of autism in a young child than obsessive compulsive disorder. Not to mention that neither could be diagnosed on that one single behavior alone. I digress. Yes. Not a good use of the term by any way one looks at it.
My OCD manifests itself in completely random ways. It says to touch the corner of the book at just the right angle or else when you come home your family will be dead. Check the lock 9 times only turn back when halfway up the stairs, and don't look back, or else there will be a home invasion. Make your voice go from highest to lowest, and back up again or your dog will choke. It's not always organising thing. It's not usually consistent, the brain picks a random thing to do and an imaginary consequence for if you don't. It plagues you with intrusive thoughts, which are often violent or mean just bizarre. They're always unwanted and not a reflection of your true self. Makes you mis-remember things. It's annoying that people call the weather bi polar, describe themselves as "a little bit OCD".
Oh fuck itsounds like "habits" I had as a kid. It is like you describe but it must have been light though because it mainly disappeared and only comes back when I'm stressed out. (The main things were having to make gestures all of the sudden to "touch" certain "pieces of air" to organize it, if a piece of paper was turned so that recto became versot, I could't stand if someone did the same movement to put it back in its original state, it had to be mirrored, for the exact same result, and lastly the need to say certain sounds so it (the sound) would fill specific zones of my mouth. + also a list of bizarre crap I did everynight before falling asleep because otherwise someone would have died and a lot of creepy intrusive thoughts too, which involved harming the people I love most).
I'm really sorry if I did exactly the thing you described in your last sentence but what you wrote resonates with my experience. Maybe I'm wrong though. Sry.
That sounds exactly like it, literally exactly. My problem is that, I have to hold this stuff back when I'm in public for obvious reasons, but it puts great mental stress to do that and makes it worse when at home.
Mine were "easy" to deal with after a while, I would just quickly think of words that had the right sounds in them and use them in a sentence (or say them so softly no one could hear) or start gesturing while talking to cover the fact that I just needed to gesture. For the paper sheet however, sometimes I just had to bear with it and that was unnerving. But yours are a lot more difficult to disguise, I feel really sorry for you :/
I'm really sorry if I did exactly the thing you described in your last sentence but what you wrote resonates with my experience. Maybe I'm wrong though. Sry.