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i think avoidance is such a little-recognized ocd compulsion. all the time i talk to people with ocd who are like "i was always having intrusive thoughts about using kitchen knives and harming myself or others but i'm okay now because i just stopped using knives ever 👍 so i'm good now"

if you don't know why this doesn't work, the issue is that ocd never stops when you implement a compulsion. it evolves. today you've "solved" it by never using a knife again (and losing access to an important cooking tool, thus limiting an aspect of your life) but in a few months or a year it'll be that forks are dangerous too. and hey, isn't it risky to use the stove? avoidance will even begin to manifest in places you might not recognize.

i think avoidance is such a little-recognized ocd compulsion. all the time i talk to people with ocd who are like "i was always having intrusive thoughts about using kitchen knives and harming myself or others but i'm okay now because i just stopped using knives ever 👍 so i'm good now"

if you don't know why this doesn't work, the issue is that ocd never stops when you implement a compulsion. it evolves. today you've "solved" it by never using a knife again (and losing access to an important cooking tool, thus limiting an aspect of your life) but in a few months or a year it'll be that forks are dangerous too. and hey, isn't it risky to use the stove? avoidance will even begin to manifest in places you might not recognize.

Anyway call me a fandom old but I love when people still use chatty Ao3 tags that are tone-setting or even conversational and aren't just bare-bones nutrition label listings of fic contents. I know it was maybe a little out of hand back in the day and there's a lot of good that developed concurrently with the "content warning" styles of tagging, but a chatty unique tag is still wayyy more useful to me in the header when I'm browsing fics than someone tagging a 100k plot-heavy au with every specific sexual act that happens one time somewhere in the fic. Like. Who's reading that to specifically get their phone sex fix? Not me. Let me know what headspace you were in while writing! Tell me why that other core tag you threw on there doesn't QUITE fit but is relevant. Give me what I need to know about your story even if it doesn't fit into a neat little marketable box!

KICK THE CAN!