<p>Anyone think there's a correlation?</p>
<p>I've been developing a pretty severe anxiety problem with germs, and it's lead to excessive hand washing. My hands are actually all red and disgusting and look like they've been burnt.</p>
<p>(Been like two years of this now)</p>
<p>Anyone have any stories?</p>
<p>And you think you are intelligent? That seems to be the implication…</p>
<p>And chances are you are intelligent, seeing as you are on CC and all.</p>
<p>However, I don’t think there is much correlation. No offense, but washing hands to the point of disgust is not intelligence. And neither is pure organization, though that certainly helps.</p>
<p>TRY TO BREAK THAT HABIT/OCD-NESS! 
Watch “True Life: I have OCD” if you want.</p>
<p>I think there is a correlation. All the people I know who exhibit OCD are really smart. It runs in my family, so I know quite a few people who have it. Personally, I guess I’m okay smart, and I have weird compulsions like walking in floor tiles, not on the cracks, and running my fingers over my nails. All the time.</p>
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LOL, that is OCD? I think I have OCD then!</p>
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<p>Consult a medical professional. You are damaging your skin.</p>
<p>I am an old guy. I was/am considered very intelligent (National Merit Scholar, etc.). I “grew out” of several minor OCD behaviors. </p>
<p>I still have this compulsive need to offer unsolicited advice to young people. This is probably not OCD but rather a general characteristic of my peer group.</p>
<p>Neither of my kids (National Merit Finalists, top 20 colleges,etc.) exhibited any serious and/or noticeable OCD’s.</p>
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<p>I don’t know, I read somewhere that it was a mild form of OCD. It’s not like those people who have to have 12 of everything lined up in a row (got this from a Bones episode). I do hate the numbers 4, 40, 43 and 44 though.</p>
<p>The floor tile thing is the only one I do, so I probably don’t have OCD.</p>
<p>I have ocd when it comes to hanging shirts (the clothhanger has to face to the right when the shirt is “face up”) and pushing in chairs
and i can’t stand small white spaces, missing pieces, etc. </p>
<p>it’s not a big deal though, millions of people are much neater than me even with this mild compulsions</p>
<p>Doubt there’s any correlation lol, OCD is a mental disorder.</p>
<p>Is obsessing over grades OCD? Because then probably everyone here has it. :p</p>
<p>It seems that everything posted here so far is purely speculative. FYI, the DSM has nothing about intelligence in its diagnostic criteria for OCD. In my experience, people often refer to this disorder facetiously, perhaps facilitating such self-diagnosis as we see in this thread. Protrayals on tv or in the media of “intelligent” people having OCD does not signify a correlation thereof. Perhaps of more psychological interest is how people believe themselves to have such disorders after illegitimate symptoms and characteristics have been suggested to them.</p>
<p>^ No need for a tangent here, just state your opinion.</p>
<p>“Anecdotal” is a better characterization of the posts here than “speculative”.</p>
<p>you should read the ender series, there’s an entire planet of people who are genetically engineered to be really smart but also have ocd because people didn’t want them to get too powerful.</p>
<p>Monk of the detective show Monk has OCD, and it makes him better at seeing things at the crimes. He seems very intelligent. However, I cannot base my knowledge of it all on a crime show. </p>
<p>I’m not sure that excessive hand washing is a sign of intelligence. Just because someone shows two characteristics does not mean that those two characteristics are related. I think that connecting two unrelated things is called “Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc.” In this case, “because I have OCD, I am intelligent.”</p>
<p>I see no correlation.</p>
<p>I dunno, high (and I stress high) intelligence tends to have correlations with mental disorders, e.g Asperger’s (apparently pretty high in IMO etc people), OCD, hell, pedophilia (Socrates, Aristotle, John Maynard Keynes), and plenty of chess legends have gone insane (Bobby Fischer, Alexander Alekhine, Paul Morphy). Kind of the trade-off you get in the brain for the extra intelligence, I would suspect, which is why it isn’t normal for people to be that smart (though I have 0 evidence for that).</p>
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[startled] waaaaaahhh??? o_O[/startled]
It’s a good thing Plato escaped what Socrates and Aristotle did not</p>
<p>i think it’s more that smart kids worry more about what’s going on in their heads.</p>