Hi

I just realised this the other day, basically ever since I knew I should have been a girl, quite a while now, I have had a strange obcessive behaivour. I'm not going to go into details, there is a lot. It's strange and I was wondering if anybody else has experienced something similar.

Sarah

Quote from: foreversarah on March 25, 2008, 09:57:48 AM
Hi

I just realised this the other day, basically ever since I knew I should have been a girl, quite a while now, I have had a strange obcessive behaivour. I'm not going to go into details, there is a lot. It's strange and I was wondering if anybody else has experienced something similar.

Sarah

I was always obsessed with my hair since I was about 13 and always spent too long washing and fiddling about with it....it used to send my friends nuts who were always waiting for me to go out... and I still spend too long fiddling about with it now.....

Yes, I'm terribly obsessive. Not in the "wash your hands 'till they bleed" kinda way, but I certainly have my share of problems. Once I latch onto something... a question, a problem, a subject... I will not let go until I've sucked every ounce of experience and knowledge from it, seen it from every angle, considered every option and explanation, anticipated every possible future outcome...

~Kate~

Yep, same for me. I must know everything about things that interest me and I'll spend hours on
the smallest details. I guess that is kinda obsessive.

It's very annoying but it does have it's advantages. I went through a stage a few years ago when I
tried not to do that about everything that came up. I bought a car at the time and did little research.
Worst decision I ever made. LOL. I hated that car. So I kinda resigned myself to be obsessive about things.

It does not make GID any easier either... there are so many unknowns but I keep looking for the answers.

Amanda

I could have wrote that my self, ask any one that knows me. I obess about everything. One I start some thing I have to keep reading and learning till im the best at something or I know everything. I will wright a program on my computer to help or start a website. I get really bad at it. My wife hates it but she agrees that some times it takes my mind of the GID. Unless its my apperance im obessing about.... LOL   

Lucy

Put me in front of World of Warcraft or Everquest --- I questing I will go, I questing I will go, Hi-Ho I slaughtered the  Orc, I questing I will go....  Everyone Sing it...

LOL

Daisy

Hi,

I'm more of your wash your hands until they bleed obsessive. I do certain things before going to bed. I have to clean myself when a "chav" touches me. I have to do some things in 3s. It's mad but it's been like this since I realised I was meant to be a girl.

*A chav is someone who smokes a lot doesn't pay attention with work and loiters in the streets, in gangs, until 4.00 in the morning. Don't know if American's have heard of this term. Excuse my ignorance if you have.

Sarah

Well, you know those metal and cement covers they have in the pavement? I never walk over them. I have to force myself to step onto them, or I just subconsciously sidestep for fear they will cave in under me. How screwed up is that?! 

Quote from: lady amarant on March 27, 2008, 03:47:11 PM
Well, you know those metal and cement covers they have in the pavement? I never walk over them. I have to force myself to step onto them, or I just subconsciously sidestep for fear they will cave in under me. How screwed up is that?! 

Oh my God, I thought that I was the only one that did that!!

Quote from: Laura91 on March 28, 2008, 02:29:18 PM
Oh my God, I thought that I was the only one that did that!!

Hey! Don't mess with me here! You REALLY do it too?!

If so... yay!!! Another slightly crazy person to share my little world!!! 

No, I am dead serious. I have done that since I was a wee little child.

Gee. I don't know if that's cool or not, but ... yay?   

  it's uber cool, all of the truly cool kids do it.

*cough*

Well, of course I knew that! I was just testing everybody else for coolness. Pass, BTW.

~Simone,
       Lame raised to an artform.

I've been known to be highly obsessive in the past...it comes and goes...I have always been obsessive over my weight though. That's only because I don't want to gain weight, because if I gained weight and had a noticable female fat pattern...it would give me away, or I fear that it would. And I don't need to take chances.
I guess I'm pretty obsessive over traits that would give me away as ftm.

Quote from: lady amarant on March 27, 2008, 03:47:11 PM
Well, you know those metal and cement covers they have in the pavement? I never walk over them. I have to force myself to step onto them, or I just subconsciously sidestep for fear they will cave in under me. How screwed up is that?! 

I don't do that exactly, but I have all sorts of little obsessions about walking. I have a little game where I catch others doing it and call them out.  > You can always tell by the little out-of-rhythm lunge step. It takees one to know one! I have all sorts of other little obsessive tics. It can be a bit annoying. However, it's been very helpful in mathematics and programming  ...  must ... indent ... properly ... !!!!!!

Usually when I worry that what I'm stepping on might cave in under me, it's a well-founded fear. 

Quote from: Alyssa M. on April 01, 2008, 08:33:29 PM
...  must ... indent ... properly ... !!!!!!

Oh. My. Goddess! That is the bane of my existence. Indentation. Comments. Inline documentation. Proper flow and structure. It takes me like, three times as long to put out some code as the next person in line - I rattle off the code in about five minutes, and spend the other forty making it "pretty". Aargh!

I wish I could just mash tech together like some 1337 haXOR and proceed to take over the world.

But NOOOO! I'm too busy faffing over my 2IC's uniform: "No, no, no! We need a DARKER khaki! this is totally wrong for her complexion!"

~Simone,
       Another one flew over the cuckoo's nest.

Quote from: lady amarant on April 02, 2008, 11:21:41 AM

Quote from: Alyssa M. on April 01, 2008, 08:33:29 PM
...  must ... indent ... properly ... !!!!!!

Oh. My. Goddess! That is the bane of my existence. Indentation. Comments. Inline documentation. Proper flow and structure. It takes me like, three times as long to put out some code as the next person in line - I rattle off the code in about five minutes, and spend the other forty making it "pretty". Aargh!

I wish I could just mash tech together like some 1337 haXOR and proceed to take over the world.

But NOOOO! I'm too busy faffing over my 2IC's uniform: "No, no, no! We need a DARKER khaki! this is totally wrong for her complexion!"

~Simone,
       Another one flew over the cuckoo's nest.

Sounds like someone needs a new .emacs file! Or do you prefer to program with butterflies and cosmological parameters?

Of course, the difference is that when you need to modify the code, it's actually readable! God forbid! As a friend of mine used to say, "You want it to be readable? Why do you think they call it 'code'?!!!!"

Hi,

Programming is a nightmare, I'm trying to do Peter's Petrol Pump and it's gone mad on me. I realised the other day that a lot of it was wrong because I used one wrong word. How annoying is that?

Sarah

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Oh. My. Goddess! That is the bane of my existence. Indentation. Comments. Inline documentation. Proper flow and structure. It takes me like, three times as long to put out some code as the next person in line - I rattle off the code in about five minutes, and spend the other forty making it "pretty". Aargh!

I wonder if that is a TS trait or just obsessive?  I spew the code out as quickly as possible, get things running or tested,
and then go back and spend hours making it pretty and commenting it. But the upside is, three years later I can still
understand what it does with a glance. And for some reason I remember code from years ago, if someone asks about
a routine, it's easy to recall it. I think it's the repetition of making it pretty cements it in memory.

I guess that is why I have a love/hate relationship with regular expressions, they are SO quick and concise but so ugly and
there is no making them pretty.

Amanda