Elizabeth Price2 said:Basically, here is the situation: when I am walking down the street, I find myself avoiding stepping on the lines.😵
You know how it is—sidewalks can be, well, whether it's due to age or just poor construction or whatever else, full of grooves and cracks—essentially lines. So, I end up hopping around or maneuvering... (making a complete fool of myself, I suppose), all just to avoid stepping on a single line.
I have been doing this for as long as I can remember. At first, it was just a game, but now it has definitely become a habit.
I even started avoiding lines on playgrounds, even if it meant playing poorly.🤣
For a long time, I was convinced that maybe I was the only one dealing with this, but then I watched that movie with Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt "As Good as It Gets" and saw that the main character deals with similar "quirks" too. Of course, he seems like a rather "difficult" patient—he doesn't really walk on sidewalks where avoiding lines is impossible—but given my trajectory, I feel like I could eventually reach that same level.🤣.
So, I guess I am wondering, is there an actual clinical term for this "disorder," or does it even fall under such a category?
pizdolizac said:I do that sometimes too—especially if the sidewalk is made of tiles.
In those cases, I try to stay within the squares. 🙄
I used to know (and I still know how to do it) that when I cross a crosswalk, I must step precisely on the white stripes. I also used to be very careful about not stepping on people's shadows, which I still do occasionally (though perhaps not as frequently as before). 😁
Regarding the floor tiles, I knew how to walk while making sure my feet stayed inside the squares, but it wasn't quite that simple... 😬
Take a look at the attachment... it is essentially a floor plan (the lines on the ground 😁) showing those squares. I move from the bottom of the image toward the top. "R" represents right foot steps, and "L" represents left foot steps.
Of course, I don't walk on sidewalk squares like that anymore... my only remaining, let's call them "obsessions"—even though they aren't truly obsessions—are being careful not to step on shadows and watching my step on crosswalks, but even that happens RARELY.