Hi, I am from Mexico...
I have been counting letters since I was 10 years old, I am 26 now... and its been really great, I can do it whenever I want, It is not a tic and amazes all my friends.
A 30 word phrase is easy for me to count it in less than 3 seconds.... I did not know it is part of OCD, is it always like that? because I have been tested all the time when getting a new job and no one told me this.
Well... I am really glad there is others like me... I also count the syllabs and consonants that are in every phrase...
So, can we do a tournament or olympics of this... jeje... it is really great... thank you all.
Hi sbechtel..
This counting letter thing does not affect my life at all... I can control it, I do it just when the party is lame... and its a great ice breaker for me....
I do it by splitting the sentence in groups that are easy to count... example:
"The dog is really hungry"....
If you count it letter by letter you wont finish....
so this is the thing I automatically do in my head....
Thed-ogis-real-lyhu-ngry
Each group has 4 letters... so
4+4+4+4+4 = 20 LETTERS
Sounds slow but it is a fast calculation going on in my head... but this is the way it happens...
Hope I helped....
Best regards.
