Allie Meyer
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perci773 :
i want my ocd back it was a super power
2026-09-07 22:45:08
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alison :
if i don’t have a doctorate level of understanding of something, i don’t understand it at all and can’t even attempt a question about it
2026-08-12 14:49:07
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msa1091 :
The burnout from this is epic
2026-09-07 16:33:01
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c2c :
I’ve never heard anyone else ever describe this! But yes! And this is why I would do poorly on some standardized tests - I could not allow myself to just “guess” an answer, I had to KNOW.
2026-08-12 15:43:14
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Amoritasart :
I graduated top 10% of my class and tbh I never even considered my OCD to be part of the equation 😭 specially since I didn’t know I had it until I was in college and it was REALLY impacting me
2026-09-07 21:51:58
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froglvr69 🐸 :
Me with my ocd except I convince myself im going to be homeless I don’t have perfect grades
2026-08-12 17:46:45
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user1734795368522 :
I always compared my experience in highschool with OCD to a horse with a broken leg winning a race because it was being chased by a rabid dog
2026-08-12 23:13:55
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science_mamiii :
Careful, this is how you end up with a PhD
2026-08-14 17:41:36
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. :
oh my god me too 😭😭😭 i feel like if i dont understand things completely im gonna fall off and then never be able to understand anything again and become a complete dumbass 😭😭😭
2026-08-12 20:21:17
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Teju :
This really made things hard in college because not only was I one of the only ones doing the reading and comprehending it, I had to read every single word at full attention or else it didn’t matter. The alternative was adhd coming in and me not doing any work at all RIP
2026-08-15 19:24:36
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SKM | ACNP :
you’re the first person i’ve heard talk about this and I think I need a formal diagnosis cause this is me, but I was also the first person in my family to go to college so I was convinced that if my grades weren’t perfect id fail my family, they’d hate me, everyone would think i’m a failure/fraud, and i’d be in poverty forever 😭
2026-08-14 10:23:05
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J E Z Z :
The way pre-calc ruined me because no matter what I just couldn’t understand it and it RUINED MEEEEE
2026-08-12 16:53:20
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kyky🌷🐹🩷 :
i convinced myself that bad grades = ruining my life 😭 whats worse is my family is poor so i have to do well if i wanna go to college ANYWAYS
2026-08-13 01:36:38
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Jim :
I actually can really empathize with this. My biggest regrets in college have little to do with non-A’s, although they did sting, it was if I thought I had just blustered through the material and didn’t get it! It would just feel like the class was a waste.
2026-09-06 20:37:44
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Mango :
WAIT YES
2026-08-11 23:56:38
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pilot :
i dont think I even considered grades i just thought I was an evil person if I wasn't trying as hard as I possibly could at all times. the good grades made people think nothing was wrong
2026-08-14 20:47:13
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Hayley :
This is why I struggled I think so badly in math, I really had to emotionally understand and know that why behind everything and that’s obviously not how math taught, you’re not learning math theorem in high school
2026-08-12 16:44:05
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nadia❣ :
Girl YES quantum chemistry was soo hard for me because I could never fill that void of not getting to the why of EVERYTHING without being Heisenberg himself
2026-08-13 06:34:52
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LeafBub :
OCD is the disease of doubt and it hates uncertainty. That’s why not understanding something feels so distressing, it’s the root of our disorder. Reading these comments (I keep replying to everyone, I just feel so seen) is so eye opening.
2026-08-14 18:02:26
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da best :
omg this is me, I genuinely need to understand everything
2026-08-13 16:43:47
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katedifede :
For me studying prevents me from obsessing over other things in my life it keeps me busy!
2026-08-13 02:24:04
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. :
I studied 40+ hours a week for my summer anatomy physiology class… completely unnecessary but I would go in WAY more depth than my professor bc I needed to understand it completely
2026-08-12 10:27:06
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mattie :
I seriously resonate with this omg
2026-08-12 14:22:41
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⋆˚࿔ olga 𝜗𝜚˚⋆ :
And that’s how i graduated summa cum laude with 2 science majors
2026-08-12 14:07:27
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Meep928 :
Thank you for finally giving me the answers—and the words—I needed to understand this part of myself. There were so many times when I would literally cry because I couldn’t understand why it took me so much longer to process something than it seemed to take my peers. I would try to absorb an entire semester’s worth of information in an hour, not realizing that I wasn’t struggling because I couldn’t comprehend it—I was struggling because I felt like I needed to understand every single detail and every possible layer before I could move forward. Things sometimes took me three times as long, not because I wasn’t capable, but because I was trying to comprehend them far beyond what was actually necessary in that moment. I guess it worked out in the end—I graduated summa cum laude with a 4.0 in both my bachelor’s and master’s programs—but it came at the cost of putting an enormous amount of pressure on myself. Mental marathoning is REAL.
2026-08-12 21:46:20
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