Oh, and maybe you should consider not thinking of the term “OCD” as an insult. Maybe that’s where our difference in perspectives lie: I simply don’t consider it an insult, but what it actually is: a mental condition (or perhaps it’s more accurate to say it’s a symptom that’s indicative of one). People are okay talking about depression, ADHD, etc. - why not the same for OCD?
It’s a factual condition, not an insult - unless someone decides to make it one, which unfortunately happens all the time. Some people use the word “Jew” as a slur - does that then make all utterances of the word a slur? No, that’s absurd. Intent matters, and the same applies with any other words/terms like OCD.
I suggest listening to and/or watching some early George Carlin routines like Class Clown. Much of his comedy was based upon how words are used and interpreted.
I don’t think of it as an insult generally, but it reads like an insult in this context to me since you certainly weren’t using it a clinical sense and it doesn’t land as a joke imo; now you can say that’s all on me if you want but communication has 2+ parties involved. Even if it wasn’t meant as an insult, it is still ableist language in this context imo and I will call it out even if it makes people uncomfortable.
Well, I’ll admit I’m older and perhaps less sensitive to that notion than I should be - particularly as I never heard that term until the past decade or so. There are times when I can definitely see the issue, and then there’s times like this that I just don’t - or just think the sensitivity towards the topic is being taken too far beyond reasonable expectations. Guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on the point.
Oh, and maybe you should consider not thinking of the term “OCD” as an insult. Maybe that’s where our difference in perspectives lie: I simply don’t consider it an insult, but what it actually is: a mental condition (or perhaps it’s more accurate to say it’s a symptom that’s indicative of one). People are okay talking about depression, ADHD, etc. - why not the same for OCD?
It’s a factual condition, not an insult - unless someone decides to make it one, which unfortunately happens all the time. Some people use the word “Jew” as a slur - does that then make all utterances of the word a slur? No, that’s absurd. Intent matters, and the same applies with any other words/terms like OCD.
I suggest listening to and/or watching some early George Carlin routines like Class Clown. Much of his comedy was based upon how words are used and interpreted.
I don’t think of it as an insult generally, but it reads like an insult in this context to me since you certainly weren’t using it a clinical sense and it doesn’t land as a joke imo; now you can say that’s all on me if you want but communication has 2+ parties involved. Even if it wasn’t meant as an insult, it is still ableist language in this context imo and I will call it out even if it makes people uncomfortable.
Well, I’ll admit I’m older and perhaps less sensitive to that notion than I should be - particularly as I never heard that term until the past decade or so. There are times when I can definitely see the issue, and then there’s times like this that I just don’t - or just think the sensitivity towards the topic is being taken too far beyond reasonable expectations. Guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on the point.