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Reading too much into things

I have visual tourettic OCD and accidentally looked at someone inappropriately and the actress was 19/20 at the time but the character is supposed to be 16, I was reading their wikipage then had to adjust my undercarriage and a photo of them from the show with all the text below it and stuff was on my screen (Think like a tiny photo they add to news articles but even smaller) and I'm scared I did something bad by adjusting myself and ignoring the context. Does anyone else have other similar experiences?

I mean the wikipage for the character in the show, like how they have specific wiki's for shows.

Does anyone have any techniques for stopping freak outs about stuff like this?

EDIT: Also to clarify, I was just really uncomfortable and had to "fix" it and it just happened to coincide with seeing a trigger

I have visual tourettic OCD and accidentally looked at someone inappropriately and the actress was 19/20 at the time but the character is supposed to be 16, I was reading their wikipage then had to adjust my undercarriage and a photo of them from the show with all the text below it and stuff was on my screen and I'm scared I did something bad by adjusting myself and ignoring the context. Does anyone else have other similar experiences

EDIT: I mean the wikipage for the character in the show, like how they have specific wiki's for shows

EDIT 2: I mean that it was just uncomfortable and I had to fix it but it happened to coincide with seeing something triggering

Actually kinda liked all not being all broody 24/7 and even kind of having fun being a vigilante in the earlier parts of Season 4 (Obviously I know there's a ton of problems with this season but still)

I understand some of the annoyance even if I don't agree with it and I know that this has already been talked to death about it and some of the criticism may be routed in misogyny but they played that really poorly, I understand being annoyed but understanding why Oliver didn't tell her and having to reckon with that inside her sure but what I don't understand is her saying that she should have a say with him sending his son away?? They're engaged sure, but she never even met William at this point and his mother clearly didn't want him in Oliver's life because they both thought it was safer. Why would a woman who has no relation to him and has never met him have a say in anything about him? Not every part of Oliver's life has to involve her and William didn't even know he was his dad lol like was he was just some random person to him and Felicity literally is at this point, so how was that going to play out?

Also sidenote but I hate whenever comics or other mediums "cure" someone's disability like with Felicity and Oracle when she became Batgirl again, these shows should have actual disabled representation and Oracle in the comics went from a shock value way to portray how crazy The Joker is in Killing Joke to an icon who was part of every superhero team helping a hand in some way, they didn't treat her like she was broken, they treated her like her "limitations" made it so she became a better hero then she could've ever been as Batgirl and help more people but then just threw that away to keep her perpetually stuck in the same place, never aging or evolving and being a probably at this point 30 year old woman going by "Batgirl" and never evolving past basically being treated like a teenager or like 20 year old at this point, sorry for the tangent. It reeks of being bigoted towards disabled people and not accepting that someone can feel whole without being able-bodied.

In season 1 he talks about how the club will gentrify the surrounding area, much to Diggle's (rightful) chagrin and then in season 4 he says the same thing about cleaning up Star City Bay. Is this just something the writers thought sounded smart?

The consensus on gentrification seems to be that it's bad (Only saying seems to be because most people I follow are pretty outspokenly left wing) and as a character that's supposed to be left-wing (He says he's an old school liberal in the comics but in my opinion given his arguments with Hal and Barry about them basically being cops who he despises, he's more left wing than a liberal), it's insane that Oliver would be supportive of a policy that prices people out of their homes and has very obvious issues that anyone can see and Season 4 would've been a great opportunity to talk about his politics but instead they just make him a centrist that's "not into politics".

I don't understand adapting this storyline when they're so scared of making him actually talk about his politics in the show beyond vague mentions, especially when it's actually a pretty big point of his character. But as I said they seem to be too scared to promote his more progressive view points for fear of alienaiting their more conservative viewers which just feels cowardly to me and I feel like they just shouldn't have adapted a storyline in which he runs for office but just didn't know what to do when he was trying to be more than just a vigilante and for the last season was jobless and even when he was CEO was basically Arrow 90% of the time.

Looking to get back into comics after I've stopped reading them for a while and I'm remembering the last couple GA runs I've read (All modern/recent runs) they basically never mention his politics which is something I love about the character so I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for GA runs that go more into his politics, don't mind reading old runs but more recent would be cool too.

In the season 3 flashbacks, he's besting army guys with relative ease then the first episode of season 4 flashback, he couldn't beat some low level drug dealer???

Rewatching Arrow despite not really liking it all that much because of it's massive departure from comics but it's still a fun if slightly hate-watch, and I'm just thinking about how little Ray/Atom actually shrinks but I could be mistaken so I'm wondering how many times he actually shrinks

Also sorry for the not really relevant pre-amble.

I assumed 2 years given the fact that Season One and Two take place on the island but in 2×14 Slade says he's been on the island for 264 days and he's implied to have been there a decent while longer than Ollie when they meet, so did I miss a line of dialogue explaining or no? But also it's pretty funny to go from "5 years on a deserted island" to not even a full year

Accidentally brushed my privates after seeing a triggering smoking warning I had to take a closer look at and then had to do it again and was bit my lip without thinking and all these things combined are making OCD mess with me

I think I had an itch in my butt and started itching then pinching

Was wiping myself while on the toilet then either after or at the same time something triggering but normal was on my phone by the side of the toilet and OCD is messing with me.

Saw a triggering image looking for Poison Ivy reference images and one of them had her with her "kids" (I guess she made them from plants idk) and I had to like triple take cause I got scared you could see something bad, although it was official comic art but still on the triple take it looked like maybe you could see the baby's behind so I'm going to report it to be safe.

Saw random anime pfp in youtube comments and had to report it even though it seemed fine but I think it might've caused a groinal or I like tensed after seeing it.

Itching then I think I saw a trigger (Nothing bad) but I didn't stop itching even though it was directly.

Had a random small groinal and like poked to tell it to stop??? Like directly too because I'm in the bathroom

I got an ad about diapers/pampers that was really weird and felt like I should've reported it but it disappeared too fast and the next youtube video I watched had a sponsor that was for an adult toy shop

In the first season, she's a hacker for a seemingly anarchist organisation that hates the government and releases all the dodgy stuff the government does for all to see akin to WikiLeaks and then in the Season 5 finale she's spouting military propaganda calling everyone who enlists a "hero" and it's just insane to me. Even before then basically immediately after becoming a shield agent, she starts to act entirely different. I still like her as a character but I feel like this could've still been a part of her character but they just didn't know how to write it. It's so out of left field, it's not like there was a gradual thing, she just what? Forgets every opinion she has about the military industrial complex and big government because she became a shield agent?

Saw someone on Twitter posting a music video and the person seems to be sexualising themselves and I kept having to triple check who they were and their age and they're the same age as me but OCD is messing with me and I kept seeing it when I was triple checking, make that quadruple checking and their other social media but OCD is conflating that with attraction and I saw someone else that was a minor (Nothing bad obviously, just a normal picture) and OCD is telling me awful things that I'm scared are true as I only saw their age after the fact, even though I'm 99% sure I just didn't react at all.

Does anyone else have it where their OCD retroactively is like "You had an intrusive thought here" or something to that effect and have any techniques for dealing with that?

I was on Twitter after clicking on someone's account to see if I had to report them and saw a drawing but only like 10% of it and it didn't seem like it was bad but I got scared it was bad still and scrolled down slightly, did I need to make sure I was right? I reported it but OCD is messing with me, I'm scared I'm wrong, it wasn't explicit but it was definitely eluding to it and I still don't know for sure if it was bad. Maybe I thought I needed to scroll down to report it but I didn't, I scrolled back up instantly after seeing the whole thing. Does anyone else got hyperfocused on whether or not anything slightly NSFW is bad and reporting it to be safe?

(Massive trigger warning)

Oh my god, I was doing the checking compulsion and one of the videos was some random person who I thought might safe but while making sure, their tumblr said they were 14 despite having an onlyfans so I reported everything I could but their reporting system is grotesquely stupid and made it so I couldn't just outright report the account so I had to go back and copy links to report them. They had tattoos so at first I thought maybe their tumblr was just inactive but it doesn't appear that way, I had to make sure there was nothing else bad in the other tabs I already opened after reporting everything associated with the first person and there wasn't, just things I personally find immoral but OCD is twisting it and saying I wanted to complete the compulsion to something safe, can't stop thinking about this and really freaking out, OCD keeps messing with me even though I did the right thing and p\*rnhub's support literally did nothing about it which is utterly disgraceful so I reported them to ofcom too (Basically a service in the UK that makes sure websites are properly upholding terms and service and alike).

I keep having to repeat to myself "Stop messing with me I did the right thing" and other compulsions like itching/scratching or hitting, but at the same time I'm disassociating and don't feel anything like I know I'm feeling things but I don't actually feel them if that makes sense.

Will never use that website again obviously, I removed all my bookmarks and only have one person whom I consider safe now.

I'm so scared I'm an evil person

I don't know what else to do and really need help, I did the right thing didn't I? And if so, why does OCD keep messing with me.

(Massive trigger warning)

Oh my god, I was doing the checking compulsion and one of the videos was some random person who I thought might safe but while making sure, their tumblr said they were 14 despite having an onlyfans so I reported everything I could but their reporting system is grotesquely stupid and made it so I couldn't just outright report the account so I had to go back and copy links to report them. They had tattoos so at first I thought maybe their tumblr was just inactive but it doesn't appear that way, I had to make sure there was nothing else bad in the other tabs I already opened after reporting everything associated with the first person and there wasn't, just things I personally find immoral but OCD is twisting it and saying I wanted to complete the compulsion to something safe, can't stop thinking about this and really freaking out, OCD keeps messing with me even though I did the right thing and p*rnhub's support literally did nothing about it which is utterly disgraceful so I reported them to ofcom too (Basically a service in the UK that makes sure websites are properly upholding terms and service and alike).

I keep having to repeat to myself "Stop messing with me I did the right thing" and other compulsions like itching/scratching or hitting, but at the same time I'm disassociating and don't feel anything like I know I'm feeling things but I don't actually feel them if that makes sense.

Will never use that website again obviously, I removed all my bookmarks and only have one person whom I consider safe now.

I'm so scared I'm an evil person

I don't know what else to do and really need help, I did the right thing didn't I? And if so, why does OCD keep messing with me.

Someone retweeted a video of Winona Ryder and it turned out that they were underage in it (according to two people in the comments) so I blocked the person but I feel like I need to report it even though it wasn't explicit or anything but people were definitely sexualising her in it and OCD is messing with me about it again and trying to say awful things that aren't true, it was really weird, she was wearing clothes but also in the shower.

How do you guys handle when OCD is trying to convince you of something or feeling like you have to do something (In this case, report the person who posted the video)?

EDIT: I remember people talking about it yesterday as well and they clearly didn't know how old she was and I feel like I have to tell people but I don't remember who it was.

Basically there was a post comparing a scene in X-Men First Class and a similar one in Diary of a Wimpy Kid that are kinda of similar in a funny way, and I thought to myself that it's because the main characters of both films are in love with each other (As a joke, especially because there's a long running joke in the comic fandom that Magneto and Professor X have quite a lot of romantic tension between them) but I thought lovers instead which obviously has different connotations that I didn't think about.

And I was basically just wondering if anyone's ever had a similar experience or have any advice for dealing with intrusive thoughts when it's hard to just ignore them, I think I have ADHD as well which factors in, I was in the process of getting tested and the first official questionnaire (With an actual doctor) was something like 75% likelihood or something, idk it was a few years ago. Another weird thing I think is OCD related is I'll have intrusive thoughts that are like inappropriate references to past memories of like jokes I've seen in TV or just heard in general.

Was looking at tweets and someone compared the scene where Xavier and Rowley walking away from Magneto and Greg and how similar they were and thought a joke about how there's more parallels because they're gay lovers but I think I just meant in love with each other as a joke but didn't think about how it could be inappropriate and was moreso focusing on the people who say that about Prof X and Magneto. I literally just didn't think the thought through (I know that sounds confusing).

EDIT: Sorry, I realise this is really confusing so I'll explain better, basically there a scene in X-Men First Class and Diary of a Wimpy Kid that are kinda of similar in a funny way, and I thought to myself that it's because the main characters of both films are in love with each other (As a joke) but I thought lovers instead which obviously has different connotations that I didn't think about.

I got really scared you could see up someone's dress and did a double take and had to figure out if you could and if you could I would do something about it but OCD is assigning so many disgusting intentions and making me feel creepy and like it was really disgusting of me, especially considering who it was, my OCD makes me feel like I have to find out if something is bad and I have to do something about it if it is.

Does anyone else do this? And if so have any advice for how to stop assuming the worst and needing to confirm it?