GatsbyLuvr1920

Oh, yeah! I get this a lot, too, but it's almost always with textbooks. I have a photographic memory, and after studying, all I can see is the pages in my mind, and where certain information was in terms of columns and location. I can still see certain parts of my textbooks all the way back to 9th grade (I'm a college freshman, now). There's a scene in "The Aviator," where DiCaprio's very stressed out, and before talking to his engineer, he says, "Give me a second," and all these images of blueprints flash on the screen, and he puts his index finger on his temple and closes his eyes tightly, trying to get rid of the pictures- exactly how I am. Sometimes I have to clear my head of these pictures because they're literally all I can see. Another hinderance of this is regarding past reading- I seem to get stuck on very minute details, and I have to flip back to old chapters/sections to confirm what I remember reading. It's always stupid things that don't matter, never "big picture," conceptual ideas. For example, in the sixth Harry Potter book, Hermoine receives her O.W.L. results, and they say that she got a total of 11 O.W.L.'s. They list all of Harry's classes, and they're were nine. So, I figured that Hermoine's other two were Arithmancy and Ancient Runes, but then I realized that one of Harry's classes was Divination, which Hermoine dropped in the third book- what was that eleventh class? The only other class ever offered was Muggle Studies, so I'm guessing that this was it, but she also dropped it at the same time as Divination... Needless to say, I flipped through the rest of the book to see if they mentioned that elusive eleventh class, which they never did, unfortunately. Another example from that same book was that they said that the head of Ravenclaw was Flitwick, but I know, that I remember reading in the fourth book that it was Sinestra, the astronomy teacher...These are the stupid things that I must search for. Another common one for me is ages/names of siblings: like, if someone says they have six brothers and sisters, it drives me crazy if they only say four ages, so I make myself reason out where the other two belong, and flip through the book to find that age. Last book I can remember this happening in was Tess of the D'Urbervilles- Tess never did tell us the name/age of her one sibling... That's another thing- names! Cheaper by the Dozen- In chapter three, they list all of the kids' names, in descending order from oldest to youngest, but when I counted to see how many girls and boys, there were only eleven... The title implies that there were 12 children present, so I spent at least a half hour searching for that other child, and I found it, Mary, on the top of a page in chapter 13. Later, when I read the sequel, I found out on the very first page in a footnote that Mary had died of diphtheria in 1911 at the age of three. Still bothers me, even six years later that they couldn't tell you this in the first book, and more so, that the book is a sham- there weren't 12 kids! Mary was number 3, and she died so young, that she never was around! Come talk to me if you want to vent about the annoyances of OCD! God bless!
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