Autism? Anxiety? Or both?

Hey hey, 

does anyone else find that they cannot relax/got to bed without checking everything a certain number of times? If im the last to leave I have to check I’ve locked the door by pressing the handle 3 times. And I have to check the 3, 3 times (so essentially 9times and 1 for luck because I hate odd numbers they don’t feel right) but I also have the take a photo. It’s like my brain won’t tell me the door is locked until I’ve done it so many times. I’m staying elsewhere dog sitting for family and It takes me half an hour to go to bed because I have to do all of my things before I can go. I make sure someone else checks when I’m at home but I can’t go to bed until I see them check! I feel so annoying but then I wish I could just check once and be comfortable I’ve done it. I don’t get people who can! 

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  • The worst case of checking that I heard of was from my mother, she told me about the first house she lived in before I was born, it was in a really awful area.  There was a woman on the  opposite side of the Street who had several locks on her door, when that woman was going out she spent around half an hour checking her locks, opening them, closing them, checking them etc etc etc.  When she was finally satisfied, the woman squatted on her door and urinated on it, with the pee flowing on the door down the stone steps.  And of she went.

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  • The worst case of checking that I heard of was from my mother, she told me about the first house she lived in before I was born, it was in a really awful area.  There was a woman on the  opposite side of the Street who had several locks on her door, when that woman was going out she spent around half an hour checking her locks, opening them, closing them, checking them etc etc etc.  When she was finally satisfied, the woman squatted on her door and urinated on it, with the pee flowing on the door down the stone steps.  And of she went.

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