oliviamccutcheon
New member
For at least six years now, I've been obsessed with counting the syllables in words and sentences, and making sure that they coincide with the number of letters in the word or sentence. I also imagine the word being typed on a keyboard, and tense my leg or arm muscles (and teeth sometimes) which I have assigned to certain spots on the keyboard. I've ALSO assigned certain voice inflections to certain leg or arm muscles. And I'm doing this pretty much always - needless to say, it gets exhausting. For example, if I were to hear or read the sentence, "The shirt is blue," I would immediately register the sentence as having four syllables. The first word, "The" coincides perfectly since it uses four muscles (the T counts as two since it is capitalized). I'll continue on the finish the entire sentence this way, including spaces and all punctuation. This sentence works if I add a period and the Enter button at the end. If there's no way to make a sentence work, I become anxious. As I said before, my mind is CONSTANTLY focused on counting the syllables and letters and muscles and I seem to have no control over it. I'm not sure if it could be considered OCD or just an anxiety-relieving routine, but either way I'm curious whether or not someone else out there experiences something similar!