@3b678e16 Gosh, there is a name for that? My mother does this with everything, even things she always does in the bathroom. I don't, except for stairs in a staircase I climb, but also, I grew up with it, so never registered it as something which could be a thing. I found it a lovable something, not something that ever struck me as odd or even had a name.🥰
@b2ab0244 I hesitated to call it a disability, but it is considered a form of OCD. In the book, I presented it as more of a quirk than a problem, but now that I'm starting to think in terms of a possible book 2, I think it will be taken to the next level.
@3b678e16 Yeah, I think some kind of neurodovergence runs in the family from all sides, here, so a lot of things I considered were just "normal" turned out not being that when clashing with the "real world".
I do have at least one OCD character in all my stories and I am not really sure if anybody is really 100% neurotypical... yeah, well... one or two perhaps. I like having it just "there" without it necessarily playing a role. It can, though.
@b2ab0244 I do think "neurotypical" is the modern equivalent of "normal"—a term that was derided even in my Psych 101 class back in the early Neolithic.
Interesting how that pendulum swings, as I'd likely be upset with anyone trying to label me psychologically "normal" today.
@3b678e16 HA! It was hard to contain my anger when someone called me "refreshingly normal", recently, and the only reason I didn't go ballistic was that I had a really good day!😂
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