stillsostrange

You have to be toward the OC end of the scale to be a philosopher, copyeditor, physician, . . . . Hmm, there are lots of things such that you have to be toward the OC end of the scale in order to do them well. So, Amanda, what do you mean by "mild OCD"? If it is breaking her life in some way, it's a disorder; if it's working for her, it's a trait, with helpful and unhelpful aspects. Does she pathologize it? That is, does she regard her obsessions and the corresponding compulsions (if any) as disordered, or as just the way she is, or as part of how she is able to do what she does, or all of the above by turns, or in some other way? And so on.