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I Am Obsessed With Numbers

Numbers Annoy Me...
My entire life, since I have been able to do math in my head, I have calculated things.  House numbers, street signs, magazine articles, phone numbers and everywhere else..  I add them, subtract them, multiply and divide them.  It becomes so bad sometimes I have to close my eyes and make myself forget the numbers.  It can be aggravating.

On a related note (maaybe) for the same period of time, I have been unable to see the pattern of bricks set in a wall.  I do not see the whole pattern, I see series of faces made from the pattern in the bricks.  No matter how hard I concentrate, if I use periphal vision, Look quickly and look away, all I see are faces.
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perseverer
Good old OCD! Doesn't it just make life so interesting? Ahhhh number fixations. They are like old friends. I am forever doing cost of living comparisons in real terms. Or age/experience comparisons between different eras in history. And with my son, it is everything about the number 5. I like to think it would be worse if the mind was habitually idle and could find nothing to pounce on.