Anyone else have an issue with people moving their things?

I think is pretty normal to get upset when people move your thing to a different place. OCD only will make you overreact to this nuisance. I've overreacted several times and yell like crazy when I can't find my stuff in their respective place. But I don't always react like that.

 

I didn't know people were having such similar experiences before joining here. I had a lot of trouble with my mother moving my stuff around in my room. I've always asked her not to clean my room and just leave things as they are. It almost always end up in a fight. Curiously, I'm much more tolerant towards temporary guests or friends who stay over.

 

I think I have an issue but it is more like a normal issue than an OCD issue or I am just used to have my family invading my privacy so I am just holding everything inside. I have OCD but I never cared about moving stuff. I need to touch things and I really cannot work if there is too much mess or at least things are in some kind of logic order. I don't like when people say we have a disorder. I do not see this as a disorder as much as I see their behaviour as an irrational and one without any logic whatsoever. I know I shouldn't be touching things because I really need to but this is nothing serious and it is only a problem when people judge my behaviour.

 

I've always assumed most people would get irritated at moving their stuff, but I definitely do get irritated. My mother used to always move my furniture when I'd visit relatives, and it irritated the heck out of me. I also hate when people take any of my things, and I was almost constantly accused of being selfish, but it was mostly because I was worried about the item getting lost/stolen. I hate it when people see anything about my personal life, too.

 

It does upset me. I feel violated whenever someone else touches my things and move them. My dad left me some books and I would always touch the covers and imagine how he held them. It felt like I was touching his hands. One day, a friend dropped by and tagged her friend along. I left them for a few seconds to get us some drinks. When I came back, I was shocked to see that they have taken the liberty to check my dad's books from the shelf. I held my temper but I was fuming mad at the intrusion. It took some time for me to get over what happened.

 

Omg me too.. Today, I had to help my mom clean the house and we we're cleaning my room together and I arrange my books and stuffs like how I wanted and she just moves it and put things on the table and rearrange it without my permission and said it's better that way. URGH how I hated it. I told her to NOT move or touch anything belongs to me cuz if I did it to her she would blow up. I arranged it back but it's not how it was the last time. I felt so unsatisfied and angry. Plus, she did it more that twice and I told her more than twice too... And honestly I don't even know if I have OCD or others...

 

A maid worked for me when I lived in Egypt. One day, I rearranged my furniture in my lounge and dining area. When she came in to clean, she had changed it all back the way it was before!

I was sitting watching the TV one day, and she came and sat beside me, picked up the remote and changed the channel to something she wanted to watch without even saying a word to me - cheeky!

 

Ha ha, well, it did do something like that. It didn't make me a very happy bunny to say the least. Still, she didn't get the sack until I saw her rubbing her boobs all over my hubby!

 

Ha ha, I remember it so well. What an experience that was. I put out a vote on a forum 'Should I sack my maid?' and over a hundred people said that I should. So I did! And I told her that it was voted on as well. And I added that it was over a hundred people had voted her out! She found out who the Alpha was then, LOL!