Wikipedia talk:Editors with obsessive-compulsive disorder

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Inspiration

This essay owes a huge debt of gratitude to the great work done on Wikipedia:High-functioning autism and Asperger's editors. This new essay borrows the structure and even some of the wording from the autism/Asperger's essay. Great work on the autism and Asperger's essay! The new OCD essay couldn't have been done without the help from the autism/Asperger's essay. See Wikipedia:High-functioning autism and Asperger's editors for full attribution.OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 22:21, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Merge near-duplicate essays

I propose merging:

New title could perhaps be Wikipedia:Non-neurotypical Wikipedians. The bulk of the text is the same; the differences can be handled in two different sections. The second of these is already covering two disorders that researchers don't all agree are overlapping much less synonymous. The OCD one has had its text worked over recently for semantic markup, and other copyedits. I would use that one as the main base. A combined page would also permit a short section on when personality disorders can be an impediment or bar to productive editing (WP:CIR, WP:NOTTHERAPY, etc.).
— SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 10:21, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Don't Merge - I don't think you should, Autism and OCD are different, and while people with Autism can show symptoms of OCD, people with autism can show different symptoms - Nolan Perry ^{Yell at me!} 14:30, 29 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I am also against the merge. I acknowledge that significant overlap is a good reason in principle, but a merge would make it harder to actually work on the essay without being familiar with both issues. And it would just generally be asking for trouble. I think for essays both points are more important than they would be in article space. Hans Adler 10:49, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I oppose the merge. As someone with both OCD and Aspergers/autism, they are unique and separate issues. -- Rockstonetalk to me! 06:39, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: Not only are OCD, Asperger's. and Autism different, calling them all disorders is controversial. There are mental health professionals such as Simon Baron-Cohen, who view autism as a biological difference, not a disability.[1][2] "In sum, there is a case for all of the terms 'disorder' 'disability' 'difference' and 'disease' being applicable to different forms of autism or to the co-occurring conditions. Neurodiversity is a fact of nature; our brains are all different." Of course the view that calling Aspergers syndrome a disorder is pathologizing neurodiversity is as controversial as the view that there is an "ideal" brain configuration and that any deviation from the norm is a pathology. Combining autism with OCD -- which pretty much everyone agrees is a disorder -- would make it harder for us to present these two views with the proper WP:WEIGHT. --Guy Macon (talk) 16:27, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Autism and OCD are not the same. A person can be autistic and not have OCD symptoms and vice versa. WPEditor42 (talk) 22:41, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]