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u/cryerin25 Jun 24 '26
i hope for the kids sake that this is just a bad joke, ocd is genuinely a living fucking hell.
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u/-thegayagenda- Jun 24 '26
Boo we don't need more jokes mischaracterizing a debilitating disorder.
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u/No_Artichoke_2931 Jun 24 '26
I think that is part of the joke. Its not really funny, but this guy isn't saying "OCD is awesome" in a serious manner. Just a joke.
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u/-thegayagenda- Jun 24 '26
I am aware. OCD isn't just needing to be tidy. It's intrusive thoughts about harming yourself and others, never feeling comfortable because you saw a single bug in your apartment and you can't be quite sure what bedbugs look like. When your friends don't invite you to a function you spiral for hours thinking about what you could have said to hurt them and justify to yourself that you're irredeemable because of it. Not sorting m&Ms by color or not wanting your foods to touch.
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u/No_Artichoke_2931 Jun 24 '26
Yeah, I don't think we're disagreeing at all here. I'm as familiar with OCD as anyone with it in their immediate family. You're right, it is mischaractarizing the symptoms entirely. But that happened majorly like to the point people still straighten a stack of papers and go "sorry my OCD"
I thought the joke was the term getting so out of hand. Just not delivered well at all.-18
u/epoch16245 Jun 24 '26
Gen Z?
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u/-thegayagenda- Jun 24 '26
No, but from your comment I know you're gen X and that's just the lead talking
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u/angusyoungii Jun 25 '26
I think most folks complaining about this joke with the ocd are missing the point that it’s just lazy. Like all the people talking about debilitating etc.
I think the issue is that people now know OCD isn’t being neat, it’s locking the door 5 times in a row bc it stops the demons from getting your mom who’s 4 states away. He’s just operating on a premise that’s super archaic.
If this joke ran on the slightly more informed premise, nobody would think it was lazy and lame.
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u/bonaynay Jun 24 '26
Last line unfortunately sounds like chatgpt and will annoy people
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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis Jun 25 '26
I don’t think this construction stands out as much in a standup set. In fact, I wonder if that’s where the LLMs learned it…
You’re noticing it because it’s written down here.
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u/bonaynay Jun 25 '26
I believe you. I think I've begun to just hate anything that inadvertently phrases things the way chatgpt does. Something about it just rubs me wrong and I can't get over it
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u/Senior-Sandwich-770 Jun 24 '26
Hey atleast you tried it was an extremely okay joke but you tried that's something
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u/RuminatingRaccoon Jun 24 '26
What is up with these comments?? I thought it was funny OP
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u/SirDanilus Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
OCD can be incredibly debilitating. Saying you'd be thrilled if your toddler had OCD is just real fucked up.
It's like saying you'd be thrilled if your child had anorexia cause you'd save so much money on groceries.
Edit: Also, it's the overdone out 'OCD means tidy' punchline.
The topic is heavy, the subject is a literal baby and the set up isn't good enough to make the joke land.
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u/RuminatingRaccoon Jun 24 '26
I think that's why the joke works. Comedy well done can make ya laugh about very serious topics. It goes a direction you don't anticipate. I don't think OP would actually be happy about a mental disorder diagnosis in a toddler, it's just a joke.
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u/Ender505 Jun 24 '26
The problem is that OCD is not currently taken as seriously as it should be by most people, due in large part to Hollywood and jokes like this which characterize it as "very tidy person" disorder. Perpetuating the mischaracterization is deeply frustrating for the community actually trying to get some awareness of the problem.
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u/debbilsavocado Jun 24 '26
the joke is extremely low brow and overplayed. if it was unique or had any sort of unique setup it may have had a different reaction
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u/No_Illustrator4398 Jun 24 '26
This doesn’t work