So, yeah. I have OCD. Mine is a crazy one… it’s basically the stereotypical ‘needs to wash hands ‘ thing, but my need to wash  my hands is WEIRD. I can’t stand bodily fluids and sweat just happens to be the most common one. This includes not just other’s fluids, but also my own. I am better now, but at its peak, I had to do crazy stuff. Even now, when I’m out, I almost entirely avoid touching my food with my hands. I can’t help  it…

But Turtles all the way down was an important milestone in my life. I do like John Green’s work on the best of days and I AM  a Nerdfighter. I took it upon myself as duty to John Green to buy and read the book.

And my God, I loved it.

He’d managed  to capture my problem perfectly. Sure, Aza Holmes had a different thing to obsess about but she described her worries in the EXACT way I felt them. I rarely ever connect with book characters the way I connected with her. The feeling of arguing with your mind, the thing where you end up making everything about yourself… it just…FIT.

Seriously, read it. You’ll understand how it feels to be a prisoner of your own mind and it’ll make you a better person.

It did for me, at least.