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I have fears, of course. Do you have a legitimate fear of walking through a door that you don’t walk out of?
Yes I do. I genuinely feel massive amounts of anxiety if I'm forced to walk out a different door than what I've entered. I am clinical OCD with a long history of mental illness. I'm also a military veteran with 6 years of active duty service.
I don't need any kind of handler or supervision. I actually function quite well in society as long as I follow the rules of my anxiety disorder, in which case is clinical OCD. All I need is for people to have a little bit understanding and to let me enter and exit a building through one door. It doesn't matter which door it is as long as it's the same door.
The military veteran isn’t relevant here
What is the fear that would happen if you walk through the same door as everyone else?
Nothing happens until after I exit the building through the other door.
The fear is this:
If I was to enter the building through the entrance door and exit through the exit door, anything out of the ordinary that happens is because I left the building through a different door. In order to prevent any kind of tragic event from happening and to give myself peace of mind, I enter and exit through one door and one door only.
Have you had this condition all your life?
Of course it's relevant. S/he might have PTSD. You can't diagnose someone online, and you're being an ass.
Bro it’s entering and exiting through a door. Dollars to donuts says that this person has taken a back door within the past month.
In fact, as military, they should be acutely familiar with knowing where alternate exits would be, and to use them when necessary.
It’s not relevant.
Legitimate to you, maybe. But your fears and concerns are not the only fears and concerns and being so dismissive of someone else's fears is cruel.
As I said to another poster, I don't know if this is even a legit complaint or s/he is just trolling. I'm not a psychiatrist. But I do know that people can have all kinds of weird issues and they are very, very real to them. So whether or not you or I or anybody else thinks it's vaild, it could be very valid to that person. I just think a little compassion is in order, rather than dumping on the person repeatedly. We just don't know. And you're right, it would probably be good for him or her to have someone with them, but that might not be possible. Maybe this person is very alone in the world. Maybe his or her condition is so severe that it drives people away. We don't know. And that's the bottom line - we don't know so why not just say a prayer for them and move on.
…human bears counts as a legitimate fear?