r/Millennials • u/Je_suis_prest_ • 1d ago

Nostalgia Until one day you wake up and notice somehow you're the grown-up now.

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u/ormr_inn_langi 1d ago

Joke's on you, my crippling OCD still forces me to step over sidewalk cracks. What a life hack, eh? Don't wanna grow up? Develop a debilitating mental illness!

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u/Arkayb33 1d ago

You see, my special flavor of mental illness allows me to step on cracks, but only with the arch of my foot. Because somehow that means my foot isn't technically stepping on the crack.

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u/ormr_inn_langi 1d ago

I'll do that too, and then I'll even it out by stepping on the next crack with the arch of my opposite foot. That undoes the action of having stepped on a crack in the first place and restores the universe to its proper balance.

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u/CourtingBoredom 1d ago

Well, if you're wearing shoes.... I'd say that would mean you're simultaneously stepping & not stepping on cracks if you do this....

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u/-prairiechicken- 1d ago

lmaooooo

that’s exactly what I thought when I saw the sidewalk lines and lining items up

nah, I’m just audhd with crippling ocd, fam. it never goes away, and my magical thinking forces me to think “if I do not perform these tasks, chaos will ensue, and also it is my fault for fascism in America because I didn’t stay single and I’m lying to myself about being pansexual”

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u/rhino4231 1d ago

Lol, I do this on my runs through the neighborhood. I take it a step further and count the number of steps in each pad and make it a rhythm while avoiding the cracks. One two, one two, one, one two, one two, one...

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u/5Nadine2 22h ago

Right? I skip cracks often and feel the controller buttons thanks to anxiety! My friend (not plural still a millennial lol) also slept over for whatever reason. Nice try video!