Remember my last post about the color girl? There was a girl in my class who was always color-coordinated with her clothes and accessories. It was odd to me. I never got the braves to straight up ask her why she did that, but one awkward day before class started I overheard (or rather she spoke quite loudly) with another girl about why she is like that. This is what I discovered:
She says she has OCD and has to match everything. If everything doesn't match then it really drives her crazy. She told how one day she really freaked out when she didn't have a colored eraser, because she lost it.
She also has ADHD and is all over the place. She talks a lot and is kind of crazy, but she seems nice. She doesn't like to be labeled. She was talking about that- how she is perfectly fine with who and how she is, but just hates to be labeled like "one of those kids," and that makes sense.
She also told how this all just suddenly happened. One day, she got the idea in her head that it would be nice to match everything. So, from then on that's what she did. Color matching clothes, shoes, pencils, bags, notebooks, glasses, etc.
I can remember her name. She is Chinese? I think. However, she grew up in America her whole life.
Interesting people out there you meet, there are.
She says she has OCD and has to match everything. If everything doesn't match then it really drives her crazy. She told how one day she really freaked out when she didn't have a colored eraser, because she lost it.
She also has ADHD and is all over the place. She talks a lot and is kind of crazy, but she seems nice. She doesn't like to be labeled. She was talking about that- how she is perfectly fine with who and how she is, but just hates to be labeled like "one of those kids," and that makes sense.
She also told how this all just suddenly happened. One day, she got the idea in her head that it would be nice to match everything. So, from then on that's what she did. Color matching clothes, shoes, pencils, bags, notebooks, glasses, etc.
I can remember her name. She is Chinese? I think. However, she grew up in America her whole life.
Interesting people out there you meet, there are.
