Time for a Fresh Start - Updated Page 3, Jan 2013

[Toms306]

Also, why can't you do things like cooking your dinner when everyone else is about?

2 reasons -

1 - OCD - I have to do a lot of odd things to avoid 'contaminating' anything. That includes opening cupboards/packets etc then washing my hands and drying them on kitchen roll, so I dont have to touch anything except the food and the cuttley. Then for hot food, say getting frozen chicken/fish out of the packet for the oven with a fork so as not to touch the food/contaminated packaging etc, specailly with something like raw chicken. Obviously other people take the piss out of this, close cupboards/drawers etc and forever getting comments like 'just pick the f*cking thing up' - like I have a choice in the matter, do they think I want to be doing that!? I also can't stand the fact other people could be contaminating stuff (if someone coughs in the kitchen for example) and I also worry they might spike my food for a laugh, I KNOW they wouldn't do that, but for some reason it just sticks in my brain.

2 - Not sure what to call it but I can't stand being watched or people near me when I'm doing something. I get 'flustered' (theres probably a proper word for that) and I start panicking and shaking and can't control myself properly, for example just picking something up becomes difficult as if I can't remember how to do it, I realise how ridiculous that sounds, I guess it's something to do with social anxiety and being in close proximity with people.

And of course the more I think about, the more it happens, and in the end its just not worth the hassle.

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Didnt read any of the thread, but why no go out, get mortal and pull some worldies

I wish I understood a word of that!

Bloody youth of today!