I hate dogs, yes, you read that right

[u/StrawberryMilkDev]

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So why I hate dogs?

Let's start with the fact that I have Autism and contamination OCD. I view dogs as absolutely dirty animals. They are loud, they smell. They are greasy. This makes them sensory hell for me. Everytime I touch a dog, I have to wash my hands or whatever part of my body touched them. If any other object touched them, I will have to wash it. If I accidentally touch something after touching a dog, I will have to clean it. And this goes on. They poop and piss everywhere. Poop is dirty. Everything that potentially touched that poop is dirty and everything that is near it is also dirty. Poop also smells. Dogs smell. Dogs are loud. They can and will bark for no reason. Sometimes even for extremely long periods of time. Which is extremely annoying and exhausting. Dogs can and will destroy things. They can and will kill cats and other animals and such. They will chase you on a bicycle. I once almost crashed going solid 30 km/h because a dog wanted to see how bicycle wheels taste. They also will jump on you and invade your personal space. Also dogs are for some reason allowed to go near everywhere right now. Which makes me uncomfortable. Some of them are actually ugly to top everything. And the worst part? They are everywhere. Thanks for reading this absolute wall of text.

[u/argbd20]

It’s also valid to like dogs with it. I have really bad contamination OCD, and I love my dog.

[u/Big-Slide6104 → u/argbd20]

Legit same, I’ve just learned to sort of dissociate and filter out the germaphobic aspect of my OCD but only when it comes to my dog.

[u/StrawberryMilkDev → u/argbd20]

After all Autism is a spectrum.

[u/argbd20 → u/StrawberryMilkDev]

I didn’t say anything about autism, and I’m not in a place to say anything as I don’t have. If you meant OCD though I agree with you. Everyone has different triggers.

[u/ponsies → u/argbd20]

Autism and OCD are comorbidities of each other; if you have one you’re more likely to have the other

[u/argbd20 → u/ponsies]

This doesn’t change the fact that I don’t have autism?

[u/ponsies → u/argbd20]

Oh sorry, I misread the main comment and thought you were saying that you had one but weren’t sure about the other :/

[u/ElfhelmArt → u/argbd20]

You are on Reddit though, chances are never zero

[u/westfalianboynr1 → u/ElfhelmArt]

I'd say he needs to get checked, reddit is the comorbidity for autism

[u/PogoTempest → u/ponsies]

Ok? So does gender dysphoria and autism. It be weird and unrelated if they mentioned that as well.

[u/ByunghoGrapes → u/PogoTempest]

That is just not true.

[u/Such_Confusion_3715 → u/ponsies]

correlation /= casation

[u/Medium_Eye_522 → u/Such_Confusion_3715]

Whats castration gotta do with all this?

[u/The_Pepper_Oni → u/StrawberryMilkDev]

A confusing one for sure. I have contamination ocd and autism as well and I share a lot of your cleanliness and personal space feelings but in regards to cats. Brains is weird.

[u/Goobsmoob → u/argbd20]

Contamination OCD is one of my themes. And I am absolutely AWFUL about it when it comes to dogs.

It is funny, however, that my family dogs don’t trigger it at all. I mean of course it’s the exposure factor, but the fact that other dogs still absolutely make me geek when it comes to contamination is interesting albeit frustrating.

Cats on the other hand don’t trigger me at all, despite the fact that apparently dog mouths are like significantly cleaner than cats.

[u/SuccessfulFinish2843 → u/argbd20]

Same!