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News: Controversy over Target OCD sweater
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Originally posted by heckinglovato
I would have never replied to zhers comments if I'd known ze would just warn me, I should have realized.
Anyways yes, let's get back on topic. I heard Target is gonna remove the sweater from its stores, wow @ the influence.
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Cute.
Anyway, good for her. I'm sure she's happy in her safe place now 
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As someone with OCD I can see this persons point. It's not funny when people try to downplay OCD as just a qwerty thing. It made my life hell for years before I got diagnosed and put on meds. Some people see OCD as just some minor thing for just being clean but it's more than that.
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Originally posted by Phoenetic
Anyway, good for her. I'm sure she's happy in her safe place now |
SJWs keep winning
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Originally posted by Mtjjproducer
As someone with OCD I can see this persons point. It's not funny when people try to downplay OCD as just a qwerty thing. It made my life hell for years before I got diagnosed and put on meds. Some people see OCD as just some minor thing for just being clean but it's more than that.
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So you're saying you actually got diagnosed unlike most people in this thread and you actually agree with her? Interesting  waiting for all the people who were werking the X, Y, and Z argument.
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stop being so sensitive gosh
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Originally posted by Mtjjproducer
As someone with OCD I can see this persons point. It's not funny when people try to downplay OCD as just a qwerty thing. It made my life hell for years before I got diagnosed and put on meds. Some people see OCD as just some minor thing for just being clean but it's more than that.
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I'm sorry you went through that. I haven't personally dealt with OCD but I've seen enough people struggle with it to know OCD is not just a minor annoyance at all. That is indeed one misconception that really needs to go.
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She needs a spanking
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Originally posted by Javan
Is OCD a big deal? Or even a real mental illness. I feel like everyone who has identified themselves as OCD in this thread was self diagnosed. Some people just like to make up excuses for their weaker character flaws. And Americans especially are notorious for misdiagnosing children and giving them a bunch of meds.
If people are sensitive to it, target should take it down. But it looks like she's on her own on this one.
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Yep its not even classified as a real mental illness in most cases people just self-diagnose what activates their OCD and then use this ocd excuse to get themselves out if working on their issue with it. There are a few severe cases tho but easy to deal with.
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Originally posted by Itz_Dani!
Yep its not even classified as a real mental illness in most cases people just self-diagnose what activates their OCD and then use this ocd excuse to get themselves out if working on their issue with it. There are a few severe cases tho but easy to deal with.
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Because why listen to science, aye? 
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Originally posted by heckinglovato
SJWs keep winning
So you're saying you actually got diagnosed unlike most people in this thread and you actually agree with her? Interesting waiting for all the people who were werking the X, Y, and Z argument. |
I personally have no problem with the shirt but I see her point. I have a girl at work who claims she OCD because she is clean and it kinda pisses me off. She's bragging about being clean but I really have it and had a breakdown because of it. I'm not very clean but in obsessed with symmetry, colors, couldn't touch people's hands for like two years, was afraid to touch doorknobs for like 3 years, and intrusive thoughts which was the worst part about OCD. Without meds I couldn't leave my house for weeks without fear.
Each person feels different ways about their illness and different things offend us with mental health problems. I wouldn't downplay her reaction because mine is different.
Edit omg I feel a little emotional about this for some reason. Im welling up a little in my accounting class
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Originally posted by HEIDI
Too often, OCD is deemed to be a cute quirk, which is why I see a point in this.
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This. For some people it really can be debilitating and this trivialises it.
But "SJWs!!1! Hew cares IRL?!" I guess. 
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Those people are just seeking attention and need to chill 
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Originally posted by heckinglovato
That's when YOU get offended, doesn't mean that others should react that way.
And the whole "censoring offends me" was the exact conservative reaction when Starbucks made their cups red for the Holiday season  if you actually get offended by censoring (didn't quite get whether you were being hypothetical or not), then congrats, you're a potential member of the Republican party.
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um isnt that kinda the same thing these people are saying
she's offended, obviously the rest of us aren't offended so
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Originally posted by Mtjjproducer
I personally have no problem with the shirt but I see her point. I have a girl at work who claims she OCD because she is clean and it kinda pisses me off. She's bragging about being clean but I really have it and had a breakdown because of it. I'm not very clean but in obsessed with symmetry, colors, couldn't touch people's hands for like two years, was afraid to touch doorknobs for like 3 years, and intrusive thoughts which was the worst part about OCD. Without meds I couldn't leave my house for weeks without fear.
Each person feels different ways about their illness and different things offend us with mental health problems. I wouldn't downplay her reaction because mine is different.
Edit omg I feel a little emotional about this for some reason. Im welling up a little in my accounting class
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Omg honey it's okay, progressives get you and we're here to stand with you against anyone who tries to not take your mental disorder, or any mental disorder seriously.
And to me, the people's hands stuff, doorknobs, and the intrusive thinking seems like this is very very serious, I feel bad to whoever genuinely believes that OCD isn't serious and that we can make fun of it in any shape, form, or way.
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Originally posted by conatus
This. For some people it really can be debilitating and this trivialises it.
But "SJWs!!1! Hew cares IRL?!" I guess. |
Tell them 
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Originally posted by Itz_Dani!
in most cases people just self-diagnose what activates their OCD and then use this ocd excuse to get themselves out if working on their issue with it.
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This. It's because of people like this girl who are trivializing it.
EDIT: For example, from the amount of people who "suffer from OCD" you would think at least 60% of the world has the disorder, when in actuality less than 3% of the total world's population is affected. 
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this is old news tho
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Originally posted by Javan
"80% of the time when someone is offended it is because they choose to be".
And where have I heard this before? Sounds oddly familiar.
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Mess at someone actually saying that. Do people not understand that everyone experiences things different from one another? Even how we measure and precieve time is subjective. If something as fundamental and ordinary as time is different to each individual person, how are people going to sit up on their high horse and say that girl is oversensitive, censoring "free expression" (what even?), and just bitching over nothing when she could truly have a mental illness that she struggles with daily? Where's the logic? It's not like she went and said "Everyone boycott target Now!". It looks like she was walking around target looking for clothes, noticed this and posted it on her twitter like anyone normal person would have.
The things people say on this site these days to be "edgy" with shade/dragging or "fit in" is lame. It's like as soon as you say something critiquing anything happening in society that isn't immediately life threatening, someone is flinging the "SJW" word around like it's the Salem Witch Trials of 2015. Give it a rest.
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People die due to their OCD so I totally understand where people are coming from.
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Originally posted by Flare
Mess at someone actually saying that. Do people not understand that everyone experiences things different from one another? Even how we measure and precieve time is subjective. If something as fundamental and ordinary as time is different to each individual person, how are people going to sit up on their high horse and say that girl is oversensitive, censoring "free expression" (what even?), and just bitching over nothing when she could truly have a mental illness that she struggles with daily? Where's the logic? It's not like she went and said "Everyone boycott target Now!". It looks like she was walking around target looking for clothes, noticed this and posted it on her twitter like anyone normal person would have.
The things people say on this site these days to be "edgy" with shade/dragging or "fit in" is lame. It's like as soon as you say something critiquing anything happening in society that isn't immediately life threatening, someone is flinging the "SJW" word around like it's the Salem Witch Trials of 2015. Give it a rest.
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This is the best thing I've read on this website for months.
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Originally posted by Flare
Mess at someone actually saying that. Do people not understand that everyone experiences things different from one another? Even how we measure and precieve time is subjective. If something as fundamental and ordinary as time is different to each individual person, how are people going to sit up on their high horse and say that girl is oversensitive, censoring "free expression" (what even?), and just bitching over nothing when she could truly have a mental illness that she struggles with daily? Where's the logic? It's not like she went and said "Everyone boycott target Now!". It looks like she was walking around target looking for clothes, noticed this and posted it on her twitter like anyone normal person would have.
The things people say on this site these days to be "edgy" with shade/dragging or "fit in" is lame. It's like as soon as you say something critiquing anything happening in society that isn't immediately life threatening, someone is flinging the "SJW" word around like it's the Salem Witch Trials of 2015. Give it a rest.
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I paid her twitter a visit, and there are little to no mentions of her struggling with OCD, which actually affects less than 3% of the entire population. I doubt she's ever been diagnosed with OCD, and therefore she does not suffer from it, because anyone that does usually needs serious help. The only one trivializing a mental disorder is her.
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