HOCD and misreading words. Normal?

I posted here a while back..twice actually about HOCD. Constantly worrying about my sexuality, fearing that I won't be straight anymore, doing these rituals to make "gayness" go away, etc. Etc. I'm never relaxed, I'm alway anxious, if not I always have a heavy heart. I miss the days when I was straight..and I knew it. Oh, so badly. It's been over a year now..since I've been struggling with all this.

Recently, I noticed that I've been misreading words. I haven't been misreading words to any other words except the words "gay" and "lesbian". If that makes sense. For example if I see words like, "lay" , "may", "Stay", even names like "Gary" I keep misreading them as "gay". And if I see phrases like "let's bring this [...]" I keep misreading it as "lesbian." Of course not ALL the time, but enough for me to worried. This never happened to me before. Of course I misread words in my life before, but not only specific words, again..if that makes sense (sorry not sure how I should word this.)

My mind is keep telling "signs, they're signs!! You're going to be (you know what)".

Is all this happening because I've been obsessing over my sexuality? Because I keep constantly fearing that I won't be straight? Sometimes, I misread words when I'm not really thinking about anything.

The reason this is happening is because your mind is so hooked on the obsession that it begins to perceive/morph words that aren't there. I've been struggling with HOCD for 8-9 months, and this same thing has happened to me on occasions. Sometimes I'll even accidentally pronounce a word wrong as well, this may not happen to everyone, but it's happening to us so it's okay. I would advise you to just ignore it an move on, although my mind also says it's "proof."