#ocd struggles

"If you think hateful thoughts about yourself, and you're queer, that's queerphobic, and it's illegal to be queerphobic during pride month!"

How about we not make straight queers* feel guilty and paranoid about being "not queer enough" during pride month? (*Aspec straights, trans & gender diverse straights, intersex straights, lesbihets, turihets, m-specs straights, polyamorous hets, nonrose hets, etc, etc, etc?)

How about we not make people with internalized queerphobia feel guilty for intrusive thoughts?

How about we stop making a billion posts encouraging moral OCD during pride month?

"It's me, isn't it?"

I love this panel of the anthology so very much. It adresses the struggles Riddle goes through trying to be less strict, which often gets overlooked. As someone currently receiving therapy to address my OCD, I think this exemplifies how difficult it can be to suppress compulsions, especially when you have been doing them your whole life. Even things that are harmless not to do can throw off a your whole day because Everything Is Wrong if you don’t do them.

The most common response from people to troubles and worries like these is often ‘just don’t worry about it’, but oftentimes that itself becomes a new worry in and of itself, and only adds to the stress.