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Originally Posted by Secretum
.. (I also had this OCD-like need to not break any rules. I helped a kid in my history class with his homework once, and I had to "confess" that I had to my teacher because I felt so guilty for "helping him cheat". So as much as I wanted to, I couldn't read during class at penalty of being a "bad person".)...
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Is this OCD related?? I have this tendency
ridiculously much. Have been dx'd OCD, but the dx seemed to be based on other things. Heh, I probably hit the threshold before we even got to this.
Though it has come up, I don't remember it being in that context. Still have much to learn about OCD...
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Originally Posted by AniManiac
...because I'm surrounded by people who are more and more like me. ...because everyone else is a smarty-pants and I don't have to play dumb. No one tells me not to use big words anymore. It is awesome!...
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Can relate. H.S. was actually pretty good friend-wise (had more than ONE!), but my group was the nerds/APs/valedictorians, so that explains a lot.
Was really on track for great things. College was good too. Till it all crashed and burned with my first really bad depression and I had to drop out in 3rd year. I had no idea what was wrong with me. It made no sense. Everything was perfectly fine... grades, friends, no real stress. It was all so easy. Then, boom! Incapacitated. Castigated as a useless ingrate upon going back home, never got back on track. Long story short, oh to be surrounded by smarty-pants! And to not be told not to use big words! (Good grief...you mean bring it down even more?!
) This has been a topic more than one therapist has brought up. It does make it really hard to relate. Good people come in all capacities, of course, but I do feel very isolated and freakish. I'm so glad for you to be in such a fit-in environment!
