35 Things People Embody So Deeply That Their Entire Personality Revolves Around It, As Shared In This Online Group

And I am the opposite! I do have OCD (officially diagnosed), but I don‘t care if things are organized or not.

I have OCD & TS (they are often diagnosed together) and have been leading groups since 1999. In my experience, the "perfectionism" stereotype is an extremely small factor. Counting & contamination (external factors) /reverse contamination (impurity, others reading your thoughts, &spreading illness) are the big 2. Ordered compulsions are also misused by people who don't fully understand what OCD is, they believe it to mean obsessive organizing, when it actually refers to doing things in a certain order to complete the rumination cycle (lol everyone with OCD seems to have this while showering! ).

Hate it when people say that those who alphabetise their movie/music/book collection have OCD. "No Karen! We just want to be able to find our s**t!".

Yes and yes.

Same here

The one I remember my brother doing was touching the back of dining chairs eight times every time he went past them and I (at the time 8 years old) couldn't understand why he couldn't 'snap out of it'. He never had any compulsions that involved organization- his room was a mess for example, and he never washed his hands obsessively either. People need educate themselves more before they give themselves a 'label' as it makes it harder for those with a diagnosis.

Checking things constantly.

I have OCD too, but for me its primarilly intrusive thoughts. A nasty one in particular is "Dont think of anything you dont want to think of.", which is kinda contradicting in itself. Took a long time to convince myself, that im not a monster...

Same! My great grandparents came from Ukraine, but when I visited Ukraine and was asked if I was Ukrainian (“you look Ukrainian!”) I said “no I’m Canadian but my family came from Ukraine.” Big difference between that and actually being Ukrainian. (Слава Украины)

Exactly. All except for one of my grandparents are first or second generation Irish immigrants, but I'm still American (unfortunately) and wouldn't argue with an actual Irish person about any of the culture.

I'm so glad I can say I'm totally (North) American. Funny when people think I'm Arab or Latina. No sir. I'm proud of my Native American blood.

Yep, mum's Irish, Dad's mum was Scottish, I'm English, love all the aspects of my family but don't pretend I'm any part of them, I am what I am. Never understood why Americans do that.

When I was in high school, one of my teachers asked everyone in the class to name their nationality. I heard Irish, Italian, Polish, Slovak, German, French, and so on. My answer? "American, because I was born here. That's what 'nationality' means." Ethnically? I'm Slovak, Irish, Goral, French, Swiss, and who knows what else. One of my great grandmothers swore we were related to Pocahontas...lol.

Yea, I was born and live in the U.S, and I have an Irish heritige, but I say I'm American. If I want to get specific, I'll say I'm American with an Irish heritige.

Same with Scottish. I don't give a crap if your second cousin twice removed, aunties, uncles parakeet was Scottish.... You aren't

When Americans say "I'm X" they don't mean they're from there............

Yes. There is a difference between recognizing your heritage and lying about your country of birth

So is it a matter of ancestry... or nationalism... true curiosity as a decendant of several European countries... I do not consider myself to "be one of them" but recognize traits associative to being of there... does that make sense?

I'm half irish too, dad is Irish mum is English. I don't think my dad aver forgave himself for accidentally making an Englishman. :D :D

Many (if not most) Americans say things like "I'm Irish" even though they are American. Most American families have come from somewhere else especially with the mass migrations in the 1800's. A very small percentage of Americans are native to North America. While someone living in say Italy or Ireland has a much higher chance of being able to say most of their family (going back many generations) is Italian or Irish. (I'm speaking in broad terms and generalizations, obviously this is not specific to everyone.)

Cool

You're American.

When people in the U.S. claim to be Irish they are not thinking of nationality but of race/culture. Americans do this so much because they are looking for anything to make them feel special and not just another faceless wage slave.

They're not talking citizenship but heritage/ This is routine in the US because of its immigrant heritage and has become more common in the UK since large-scale immigration there followed the loss of empire. France, too, perhaps to a lesser extent.

Maybe they just like dressing up. Seems like a harmless hobby.

Its Skol, like the chewing tobacco, lol

I'm "Cherokee", "Apache", Irish, and Scottish. I put emphasis on the first two, because that's really all one can see in me, except for the green eyes. I'm more Irish than Scottish, just a small touch of Scottish. I've traced, my Native American Indian roots, but not the others, yet. I would Never claim I'm from there unless I actually am. So many make these claims, when you can't see a drop of it in them. Like say, Native American Indians, our skin is naturally dark (A Black woman, once told me, we are peachy! I loved that!) High cheek bones, and dark hair. When a natural Blonde, with blue eyes claims their almost full blooded Indian, I want to just laugh! Why people that are Not what their claiming to be, and others can see their not, can keep a straight face while lying about it? Do the DNA test, and find out your true bloodline! Stop embarrassing yourself, and those that know it.

This. I have a Scottish grandmother and a Belgian great-grandmother, but I'm neither Scottish nor Belgian. Doesn't mean I don't want to know everything I possibly can about those cultures, but I'd never think of myself as being as Scottish/Belgian as a person actually from those countries.

YES!!!

So what? They are having fun.

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Go cry about it

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Maybe, just, maaaaaybe - they're really proud of their heritage (?); or, they're just pretentious.

Honest to god, it's hard to believe, but I DO believe it! I'm 53, and I was shocked to learn people acted similarly in the decades before me. I NEVER thought people would be still acting that way by now, except maybe like 4 crazy people across the whole state. How naive I was. Setting aside how awful it is, I just can't even understand their logic. Are they mentally challenged? I have no other explanation.

It's racism disguised as ignorance/bad humor. A few words with you would tell me you were American. But they don't care about that.

It's also woeful ignorance of geography. They probably thought it was a city or something, not a continent.

The give away is the sign on the building. Flats to Let.

Sadly, far too many are avoiding being homeless, evicted, broke.

I wouldn't be surprised if work is the excuse to not deal with whatever is going on at home. Then again, some people are just hardcore workaholics.

When there's nothing else in your life, though... *shrug*

I think there can be any number of reasons. For me, I'm autistic. And nobody ever explained to me that the work of a software developer is never done. And being salaried, I never thought that I was just supposed to work 40hrs per week and leave it at that. I neglected my son to some extend due to super long hours (50-110 hrs per week) most of his childhood. It's something that will haunt me until the day I die. I will also add, though, that I loved my job and I would rather sit and do the same thing for 12 hours than to do 6 different things for 2 hours each. It is a desire that pervades my life. But it was mostly thinking I'd be fired for never "finishing" my work. Thank god more people are getting diagnosed with autism and people are willing to explain these basic things to them. I also lived in fear of being fired for 25 years until I figured out that nobody else was every getting EVERYTHING done, either.

That's very true. I go back in to the office 2 days/week beginning on the 19th. I don't have to go, but I must get away from my mother. She retired right before the pandemic hit and we've been together and at each other's throats for the past 2 years. I can't take it anymore.

Maybe they are just worried about their job? I've had jobs where managers kept getting us to take more and more work cases when there was no reasonable way we could work them in our contracted hours. Unpaid overtime then becomes the norm.