
Yeah I had this kind of ocd due to the combo of ocd and getting molested as a kid. It especially sucks because I love kids. The thing that makes me hopeful is I was a summer camp counselor for 2 months and it basically went away by the end because probably of daily exposure or something. But it crept back a tiny bit but way way way less. So I think it’ll just keep getting better until it’s gone.
Sometimes ppl w ocd get intrusive thoughts abt pedophilia. The difference between them and pedophiles is ppl w OCD are fully disgusted by the idea, it distresses them, and any thought about it is entirely against their will. Also sometimes its, “i looked at that kid for more than five seconds does it mean im attracted to them am i a pedo”
It makes you look like one bc of you going out of your way to say you’re not because of your obsessive thoughts like thats. Kinda what p-ocd is. Maybe not everyone has the impulse to defend themselves against nothing but they definitely can have thoughts like “i looked at a kid, does that make me a pedo” that ends up making them look like a pedo bc like. Who else thinks that?