thoughts behind the tics

My first thought was that the teacher attacked the student right away and never sat to think about the judgments she was making. Sometimes I think I am very particular about things and sometimes even find myself using the term OCD, but I feel nothing but complete sorrow for those who live with the tics of OCD and don't know much of life without them. When the student was walking home from school, all I could think is that I couldn't do the same thing every day. Sometimes my mind won't let me walk on the cracks of the concrete, but other days I have so many other wondering thoughts to not even remember where I was on my way to. I have the same feelings as the students as to not being able to put certain thoughts out of my mind and I always wish I knew how to stop thinking about them. Sometimes I wish I could blame my racing thoughts on something such as a mailbox, but why is anything else to blame. The mother in this story, if you ask me, is just plain ignorant. Now I'm no parent, but my best assumption is that no matter what my child does, I'll try and understand and be there for them. I know my mom would do this for me. I can call my mom balling my eyes out for no reason what so ever and you know what, she'll stop and listen and help me piece together the confusion of my emotions. I know I would be completely lost without the comfort of her love and understanding. I think we all have that voice inside our head but I can not imagine not having the strength to tell it to shut up. There are somethings I don't want to listen to but I just can't help it but I can't imagine listening to everything. This story really hit home with me and created a better understanding of the mind behind the tics. My friend in high school suffered from OCD and we never knew how to deal with it. We just yelled at her that she didn't need to go back that one last time to make sure her car was locked. Little did I ever know until this assignment we might have been hurting her. I think this assignment is a good eye opener as a break to the reading we've been doing about writing. OCD could have been someones research topic and this is somewhat of a comic relief to how some of our writing could go.