Re: OT: Asperger's syndrome

On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Dennis Paul Himes wrote:
> nicole perrin <nicole.eap@...> wrote:
> >
> > ...  Everything has to be even, in a symmetrical
> > sort of way.  Like if I scratch my right arm, I scratch my left arm too
> > in the same place -- this isn't as bad now as it used to be, but it
> > still happens.  But I have lots of other OCD-ish symptoms too, so it's
> > not very surprising.
>
>     I was exactly the same way when I was a child.  This is the first time
> I've ever heard of this phenomenon in another person.  It's no longer with
> me, though.  I think it left when I was a teenager.  I do still have some
> other OCD habits, though.  It sometimes takes me a long time to leave my
> house, because I keep going back to the door to make sure it's *really*
> locked.
I also have the obsessive need to scratch the opposite side whenever I
scratch, and have since I was quite young; looking back on it this was one
of my earliest signs of OCD.  It's pretty odd; instead of just feeling
really uneasy if I don't scratch both sides, the side I didn't scratch
starts to itch! Ah well.

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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo