If you have strong habits other than this one, you may be obsessive-compulsive. Not the end of the world or anything, but if any habits hinder you then you could talk to a psychiatrist about it.

Everyone's brain is wired differently, things that excite one person, do nothing for someone else. Your brain seems to like finding order in chaos, or patterns in the abstract. It could be obsessive-compulsive as stated above, but I'd only worry about it if it starts to interfere with your quality of life. If it's not hurting you, then I hope you have a 5 red's in a row kind of day :)

Green is the only way to go. With red, there are so many residual affects. Three greens in a row and my week is going very well. When I get reds, even two in a row, I cannot leave the house for fear of reprocussions. This is not baseless. Once after having 2 reds in a row a checker at the grocery store was so dismissive of me I had to yell at her. She called the manager and I ran out of the store, and I forgot my bags. I just know that if I had greens that day, that would not have happened. Now I don't go in that store anymore because they will have my picture at the front. They don't let you get away with things like that anymore.

I'm the original poster. To the dude above: well, I never read *that* much into it.

To the first guy: this is my only OCD-like symptom. Er, except tidying the house when I'm nervous (which is far more of a help than a hindrance, trust me!)

The fact that I spent three years as a junior research analyst at an international think tank known for its work with statistics and game theory might-- just MIGHT-- be a contributing factor here.

I swear, if all y'all had to take as much game theory and econometrics PhD coursework as I did, you'd be counting your M&Ms too.

Since about the 4th grade I've counted the letters in all the things I and others around me say. Lately it's progressed into signs, books and anything around me with letters.
Originally I was trying to even out the sentences so that they all had even numbers in them. Now I just count and I seriously can't stop. It doesn't really cause much trouble except sometimes in conversations I don't listen to people because I'm counting what they're saying.

I do that too!! It all started when I was like 5 and I used to play Magic Stars memory with my mom. I still do it =) along with a lot of other stuff =) if you don't know what magic stars memory is, its like the card game memory, but you play with the different faces on Milky Way Magic Stars =) I dunno if you can get them in America though...

I do the same excact thing!! Normal.+

Have you read "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"? The red and yellow thing is present there, too.

Mate, I'm pretty sure you're autistic or have OCD. My uncle is like that, he can do 2000 word or so jigsaws upside down in about 5 minutes. Nothing to worry about really.

Nobody gives a ratīs ass.
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haha I hate getting rows of yellow ones too

you almost as weird as i am yes. ahhh its yellow run!!!!

Yeah, I'm a bit like that. I never eat green smarties;

Yeah, I'm a bit like that. I never eat green smarties;

I'm a bit like that too. I seperate my Smarties/ M&Ms / Any kind of candy that comes in different colours. I only eat the orange, purple, pink and blue ones, and give the green red brown and other colours to whoever wants them. I also clean when I'm nervous, but I don't think I have OCD.
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you are toatally wierd.......nope it is problably joust O.C.D there is medication for that ask ur doctor

skittles are better.

you are retarded

sometime i wonder why i go to this site.

ummmmmm
OCD. go c a doctor

do you realize how much dye you are eating?