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It's not normal. I'm a grade 12 and finding a grade 9 hot is weird.
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You could just be confusing it with finding a person cute, the same way you would find a baby or a dog to look cute and not in an intimate or flirtatious way.
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@BigGip09 No, I only find grade 9s adorable since they're so small and clueless. I'm just saying if I found them hot there's gotta be something wrong. It's predatory I think. The main thing I ruminate about is whether finding someone 15 attractive at 18 is weird. Like if someone just turned 15 and I saw a picture of them and found them attractive is that weird ? I'm turning 18 in March. I usually just try to let it go though but it's annoying when it comes up. I'm mostly used to ocd at this point .
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@Lucywilefire Well you've already established one compulsion. Rumination. You shouldn't be doing that whatsoever. If anything, you should ban it. If you looked at someone you thought was attractive before even knowing their age, would you question it? I think you would only question it after receiving the age of that person. It's not like you look at a person, deep down hoping that they are way younger rather than way older. It's just OCD thoughts confusing you at the end of the day. Also, you post too frequently when looking for reassurance. I think you should ban that compulsion as well. You finding someone who's an age or two below you attractive really isn't the end of the world. It's what you do after the fact that matters a lot more. If it comes up, just let it. You're putting so much focus on something that bothers you when you also have the option to let it sit there, give it little to no care, and move on. I know that's really really hard and easier said than done though. Take time in practicing that. Have you ever done ERP for this?
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@BigGip09 Yeah I have. I should probably get back to doing it daily
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@Lucywilefire Absolutely! Definitely get back to doing that because it will help you. It will be a lot better than figuring the same things out over and over, leading you nowhere. Soon, you don't even find yourself caring about things like that because you will have more confidence in who you are as a person. :)
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I don’t find the at weird at all! More like normal attraction. Pedo is someone that finds prepubescent children sexually attractive
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I also think that a pedo is solely attracted to children under the age of 12 and no other attraction types. They think it's normal and don't have problems with it. I think OCD is the opposite, especially when people misuse the word.
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@BigGip09 💯 agree
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If the fear is about being a pedo, it’s pocd, doesn’t matter what age. You can have intrusive thoughts like “ Your a pedo for being attracted to that person bc they are a couple years younger” it’s technically not true, but ocd/ intrusive thoughts are irrational and it still causes people to worry and obsess about it. And of course a lot of people also get intrusive thoughts about actual kids
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Ever since POCD hit, I've come to a point where I've gotten desensitized on what's right and wrong. I think fiction and porn hasn't helped either. The only thing I worry about now is if I'm attracted to someone below 18 or view sexual content of someone below 18. And I think perhaps this has made me numb to situations that are wrong, even in cases for myself. In the past week, I've seen two posts about people just turning 18 and relationships/sexualization of them. The first post was someone on Twitter talking about this person being a predator. It was a screenshot of a Tiktok where a woman who is 23 said the kid she used to babysit at 13 just turned 18 and if she should ask her out. And to be honest, I felt nothing. I didn't regard it as wrong. My thought was "well, they're both adults now so whatever." The next post I saw today, and I feel like this was life trying to tell me something. I'm 18 and just turned 18 a few months ago. At 17 I realized I was become desensitized and justifying morally wrong things as a teen from porn and stuff, and POCD hit so I decided I wasn't going to be attracted to minors or sexualize them even if we're the same age. But I was thinking about the morality of stuff, like people turning 18 and being an adult and everything. And I was just kind of like, well as long as someone is 18 it doesn't matter and it's okay right? Well, today a KPOP Idol, Han Yujin, literally just turned 18. I was checking the Enhypen group out and the members ages now. Specifically Sunoo and Sunghoon because I had crushes on them but I did the rest of the members too. I did know Han Yujin was 17 before, but I checked his age and it said he was 18. And my first thought was, "oh, it's okay to like him now!" And then I saw he literally just turned 18 today. It made me feel weird, but I was thinking, well he's 18. He's an adult. So it's fine, right? Well, I opened Twitter and a Twitter post called for someone to report an account. I saw that the account in question had posted on Han Yujin's birthday. The post was "Han Yujin is 18 now. It's okay to sexualize him!" Or something along those lines. Something I myself had JUST thought about. The post had 24k likes and a few comments, with people saying it was gross, disgusting, predatory, etc. Apparently the person who made the post about Yujin was 18 though, maybe even only a few months older than Han Yujin. But no one cared and said it was disgusting and predatory/pedo either way. And now I'm sitting here, thinking about myself and my own morality. My morals seem to stop at someone being 18 and that's that. But that doesn't seem very moral, does it? Especially with the posts I saw and what just happened. I have this mindset and I'll still have it when I'm older and basically be a groomer and a pedophile. Everyone else seems to see and understand that dating someone or sexualizing them the moment they turn 18 is grooming, pedophilic, weird, gross, etc. but I don't have the same view and see it as okay. There are many more situations similar to this too. Where I've justified real relationships and fictional ones where someone knew someone as a minor, kid, and even in cases where they raised them. My argument every time is "nothing happened before 18, and they're an adult now." For fiction, I justify it so I can enjoy the fictional content, relationship, and sexual content of them. It just seems like I have a predatory and pedophilic mindset, and I don't think it will change with age.
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How is this OCD? Who with Pocd thinks about a naked child ???? I was over here thinking if I’m actually attracted to kids because I find some of them good looking you know and my little cousin I have thoughts about her too and I was thinking about her naked but I wasn’t aroused or nothing so that’s where I’m confused It was intentional so does that make me a p*do?
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So one day a couple months ago I saw some posts on threads pop up on instagram and they said I’m 17 and horny and 18 and horny or I think I even remember see a 16 year old one. I’m 20 and I remembered that when those popped up I clicked on them and I don’t know if I did it out of true attraction or out of the urge to make my anxiety go away. I feel like often times if I see something that says any number under 18 even if it has nothing to do with age it could be talking about season 17 of a tv show my mind immediately goes what?? 17??? And then I click on it to make my anxiety go away. So when I remembered all of this I downloaded the threads app because I wanted to see if I could get reassurance and see if I could rekindle how I felt in these moments. When I opened the app all I saw was posts like that but everyone claimed to be 18. The only problem is none of the girls looked 18 they looked like 14-16 so I started to panic I and worry that because I clicked on the threads in the past it popped up more and I was a pedophile for that. All of the accounts all pretty much had only fans links so at that point I was like well they have to be 18 then but now I’m worried that maybe it’s a scammer and they are using underage pictures of girls and putting them on onlyfans. Which I know is out of my control but I just feel like a Pedo and like I did something wrong. Does anyone have any advice? Or have any similar situations/ similarities with this?
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