u/ahhtoomanybirdswtf

Something similar to Marley and Me or Boyhood where the whole premise is that a family grows up, you just see what their life is like and that’s the whole plot.

First of all I have no idea how the flairs work so if the flair is wrong my apologies.

Not sure if this has been talked about here before since I’m new to reddit.
I know OCPD is typically an “adults disorder”
but I was thinking about my childhood last night and younger me was fully displaying OCPD traits from as young as I can remember.

I’m currently in the process of getting diagnosed, I started researching it when every person I know who knows things about the disorder told me that I should look into it since according to them, I heavily displayed traits. Apart from the fact every symptom on the list fits me to a T, the main reason it wasn’t so hard for me to grasp this was that every OCPD trait about me is how i have been since early childhood.

I can definitely pin-point things that could’ve been triggers but I haven’t seen anyone else say they had a reaction to the triggers at such a young age and that it usually develops later.
I could go on a long list about every time I displayed OCPD throughout my childhood, but I know I’m not supposed to list off moments and ask for a diagnosis so that’s not what I’m gonna do, I just wanna know if there’s any chance that people can develop it from much younger ages?

I have a friend who lives a long way away from me and at the moment our only form of communication can be done through texts and sometimes (but not often) calls.

For about six months we were messaging each other every day, telling each other everything and every now and then we’d call for anywhere between 20 minutes to 2 hours. We were super close and then exam season started and naturally our friendship took a hit due to the high demands of finishing exams, but throughout that we still remained pretty close.

Until recently she has just stopped texting me back, I’ll occasionally get a message saying “sorry for late response…” and we’ll have a small chat but nothing like we used to. I’m now really confused over this, I don’t think I’ve said or done anything that would make her upset with me, the only reasoning for this that I can think of is that something personal has gotten in the way and now maybe she doesn’t know how to communicate that she needs a break?

I would be totally fine if it turns out she does need a break, things happen and that’s ok. I just really don’t want to give up on our friendship, it gave me a lot to look forward to and I think she is a great friend.

How should I approach her to talk about this, I want to make the friendship last but I don’t want to come across as annoying or paranoid, I’m scared if I don’t say something now our friendship will just die out.

TLDR:
My friend randomly stopped messaging me and I want to find a way to let her know that I’m still here and still want to keep in contact.