i am neurotic.

If a condiment bottle with the lid/opening on the bottom and placed on the table with the lid on the top and therefore with the label upside down I must flip them. The entire purpose of the bottle is that the lid is on the bottom so that it is easy to use. It is insulting to the bottle if you defy its purpose and place it upside down.

I must always shower with the door/curtain to my left and the wall to my right. In some showers, this results in my showering with the showerhead behind me – a ‘backwards’ shower. If I have been staying at a hotel or someone’s house where I had to take backwards showers for a while, I must take an extra long regular shower when I get home to make up for it.

Since I was little I always made sure that the middle seam on my pants went right down the middle of my butt crack. I never wanted anyone to think that I had lop-sided butt cheeks. To this day I do this and I also notice when others don’t!

I completely refuse to eat any bite of pizza without some kind of topping on it. If the cheese or pepperoni falls off, I will put it back onto the pizza in exactly the correct position, and only then will I resume eating.

as a kid I used to get snacks from the pantry when nobody was home and worry that if I didn’t put it back exactly where I had found it, facing the same way, in the same position, someone would know I had been snacking. It didn’t matter that I was snacking, but I did it anyway. I still do this sometimes.

The other day while eating at a sushi restaurant, I realized that I had organized all three rolls in a circle, pouring soy sauce on every other piece, arranging the individual pieces by type… Equality for all!

I have to adjust my throw pillows on my couch EVERY time someone gets up from it.

When going into a bar or restaurant I have to sit with my back to a wall. I can not stand sitting in the isle. It makes me so nervous that some one will spill something on me or trip over me or something else. I beg the people I’m with to let me sit with my back to the wall. If they don’t let me I become really fidgety and shake and stuff. The only place I can sit that doesn’t have to be against the wall is at the bar, I have no idea why.

I mentally divide the towel I use for showering into different areas for distinct body regions. I use one side for drying my body and the other is divided into zones for the ears, face, and hands (because I use this towel to dry my hands, and I know where each part of the towel is when I hang it up).

Whenever I am on the internet, my page has to be scrolled to a certain point so that NO text or pictures are cut off. Everything I am reading and/or looking at has to fit perfectly on the page.