Is it normal to randomly have the urge to touch things?
Sometimes I have the urge to touch things in order to maintain something like symmetry. Like, when there are two buttons and I pressed one, I have to press the other one too
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Sometimes I have the urge to touch things in order to maintain something like symmetry. Like, when there are two buttons and I pressed one, I have to press the other one too
This is OCD (or perhaps on the autistic spectrum).
When I was a kid, I always touched things to learn the texture, even now actually if I see something I'll learn the texture, if not it would bug me, the same as how I always had to read whatever I saw... Now I can look at something and imagine exactly how it feels, and my reading and spelling skills are exceptional.
It's the same how normal people when they see something that looks like it would be nice to touch they do it, I.E. silk
You probably have OCD, and these rituals are how your compulsions manifest.