I definitely had OCD tendencies when I was a kid.\u00a0 For years, if the right side of my head itched and I scratched it, I also had to scratch the left side.\u00a0 If my left thigh brushed against the arm of the couch as I was walking by, I would have to turn around and brush the right one.\u00a0 That fixed it.\u00a0 If I didn’t create a tactile mirror image, I felt off-balance.<\/p>\n
And I can’t even actually say that, because I never didn’t<\/em> fix it.\u00a0 I guess I should say, if I hadn’t, I knew that I would have felt off-balance.\u00a0 (I was self-conscious enough to know this behavior was weird, and I didn’t share it with anyone until a year or two ago.)<\/p>\n And then one day, I made a choice to stop.\u00a0 Just like when I chose to like bananas because they were the only fruit you could reliably find in NYC bodegas.\u00a0 Or when I decided to stop hating the guitar lick in “The Pina Colada Song” because I liked the rest of the song so much and I wanted to listen to it all the time.<\/p>\n Yeah, I just said to myself, “Self, this balance shit is a mite crazy.\u00a0 You gotta quit it.”<\/p>\n Sure wish I could do that with the other aspects of my insanity.<\/p>\n Anybody want to share their particular brand of nuttiness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I definitely had OCD tendencies when I was a kid.\u00a0 For years, if the right side of my head itched and I scratched it, I also had to scratch the left side.\u00a0 If my left thigh brushed against the arm of the couch as I was walking by, I would have to turn around and … Continue reading What’s Crazy?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}