My ridiculous paranoia of failure.

Chagen

It usually causes me to constantly check things to see if I'm right. Even though I didn't need to check in the first place.

Any attempt by me to write a single sentence in German takes at least 10 minutes as I paranoidly check dictionaries to see if I'm right. I don't want to look bad at all.

(Speaking of, I need to get a German-English dictionary...)

Icalasari

Do you have OCD by any chance?

Chagen

Probably. I seem to have a ton of the symptoms. I also tend to arrange everything on my Schultische in very neat and ordered styles for no reason at all. And all of my stacks of things have the largest on the bottom, going up to the smallest. Always.

Hell, I arrange anything to have some kind of pattern/symmetry.

Icalasari

Yep, that sounds like OCD (Still get diagnosed. I am not a doctor)

If it is, then yeah, that explains the first post. You're obsessing over things and are worried that you can't get it right without being told every single step. And even then

glennmagusharvey

I like arranging my stuff.

That said, I don't feel a compulsion to put it in order.  It's just that it looks nicer in order.  Cleanup, granted, often happens before guests come to visit.

Central Avenue

I like arranging my stuff and I feel a compulsion to put it in order.

I also have a compulsion to get rid of things I no longer feel I need (on my computer and in meatspace), which is sometimes frustrating as later I want it back but it's already gone.