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by Richard671 » Tue Mar 19, 2013 10:54 pm
Ive written a post similar to what im bout to ask. I remember a very young girl admitting to having a crush in me and i remember feeling flattered that i was being admired by her. Today I was at the grocery store and i thought this young girl was looking at me and in a way it made me feel good.
For the record I am not sexually attracted to kids or am i a pedophile although i do have POCD. this could go for gay men, older women, kids. Is it ok to feel good to think a child in this instance views me as some what of a handsome person. Like young children/girls view Justin Bieber and crush on him? I wonder how he reacts to it.
I will also note that this isnt my usual mentality but today it happened just for a split second and I caught it and tried to analyze it. Can this be my POCD picking on me again or am i not normal?
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by Graveyard » Wed Mar 20, 2013 5:30 am
It's fine. Everybody is entitled to feel flattered.
I remember one of my sister's friends had a crush on me when she was 14, and I was 25. I was never going to do anything, but it's always nice to be told that you're attractive to someone!
Don't worry, okay?
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by Richard671 » Wed Mar 20, 2013 5:57 am
I am going over the scenario that happened today and i know my pocd gets in the way and twists everything up even in the moment and after. i remember im at the grocery store a car pulls up as I'm getting in my car, I notice a woman driving and a child in the passanger side. I'm already self concious about this guy staring at me because he looks like he works at a gym and Im drinking a soda. So i see this lady get out of her car and look at me and i wonder how i looked to her, the child which i can barely see through my periferal vision is in car still and in my head, i feel she is looking at my every move. So i monitor every move i am doing and i feel im trying to "act cool" but for what? i look over and the child is not even looking and its a young boy. So after all that i start thinking and obsessing. Like whats wrong with me? Is that a pedophilia tendency. This is how everything went down in tjis instance and like i said this is not my usual mentality but i picked up on it today.
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by Graveyard » Wed Mar 20, 2013 6:09 am
Ricky, it's not a paedophile tendency. It's a tendency of somebody who's terrified of being a paedophile, or being accused of being one. It's OCD behaviour, and I know it's easier said than done, but that's what you've got to remind yourself when this situation arises.
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by Richard671 » Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:50 am
The thing is i can recall a time where this happened before i developed POCD but it didnt bother me then.
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