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She thinks that OCD is a personality quirk and that people who have it don’t have to take any accountability for their behaviors. She thinks she can convince people she has it by claiming to engage in a stereotypical OCD behavior, when OCD is actually defined by significant distress. Contamination OCD reaches every area of life- these are people who wash their hands until they bleed, take hour-long showers where they obsessively scrub their bodies, change their clothes multiple times per day because they can’t wear “outside clothes” inside, clean their homes obsessively, refuse to eat foods that they believe are in some way contaminated, etc. I have never met someone whose COCD begins and ends with library books. The only reason it’s slightly believable is that a lot of people with and without COCD are more wary of touching certain shared objects because of the pandemic, but that would still extend to things other than books.I believe an adult with severe germ-type OCD would wear latex gloves to the library, wipe down all the books checked out, and then read them wearing latex gloves. I believe they'd do the same thing at a bookstore though as well. There are lots of people touching a book between manufacturing, stocking and when it leaves the store with a customer. Some people even read books at the store in those comfy chairs and put them back on the shelf. Getting the second or fourth book in the stack isn't going to ease an OCD'rs OCD, they know that trick, and they know the third one was once the first one and just as touched. Interesting that doesn't trigger ALR's OCD.
Amber has tried to LARP as a full-fledged OCD type, mentioning she has rituals or does things that bother becky. But of course, she's never elaborated. OCD routines can be fixed but also random intrusive thoughts and routines. I refuse to believe amber really has OCD until she says things like "this book took longer to read than it should, my anxiety is making my OCD act up and I had read every paragraph starting with the word "the" three times or else something bad might happen" (though she reads here, and now she'll probably start saying things like that, so I'll just never believe she has OCD)
eta: reply to @StrawberryDouche I agree about the narrow spaces, but also, libraries don't have tables full of "employees choice" or highlighting a certain type of book. I doubt she scans the shelves, she just picks up everything on the "recommended LGBT teen reading" table. Not to mention, the dewy decimal system would be totally baffling for her. "do we...whut? I'm not good at math, I can't do decimals"
And even if she did actually have OCD, it’s her responsibility to take medication for it and engage in therapy on a consistent basis. Taking Luvox for awhile might even make her lose weight. I find it impossible to believe that wack-ass psychiatrist from a couple of years ago diagnosed her with bipolar disorder, OCPD, GAD, and panic disorder and would diagnose all of that in a single visit but would miss OCD. A mental health professional can identify OCD in 2 seconds, because obsessions and compulsive behaviors are pretty specific to OCD.