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And your experience is reflective of all folks who have OCD? I can absolutely imagine someone being pretty upset by seeing how casually "oh I'm just OCD" gets tossed around.

I'm queer, I would never presume to say that another queer person's challenges or trauma were the same as mine.



> I can absolutely imagine

There's the problem, right there. A lot of these affronts are imagined, without actually getting input from people. A perfect example is the use of Latinx, which many Hispanic people have spoken out against, yet keeps getting tossed around because people _imagine_ that the word "hispanic" is offensive.


My partner has OCD and he heavily dislikes people misusing the term.


says the person with "fascist" in their name which could literally trigger someone whose ancestors had to deal with fascists


Should we really redefine everything to meet the sensibilities of the most easily offended?

Go read some Vonnegut.




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