OCD avoidance can be easy to miss when you don’t know what you’re looking at. It doesn’t always look like fear. Sometimes it looks like being “avoidant,” “lazy,” or even “bossy.” But when a child is constantly finding ways to not touch things, using barriers, avoiding places, or needing others to step in… that’s not preference. That’s OCD quietly running the show. And the tricky part is… the more we help them avoid, the more OCD grows. Not because anyone is doing anything wrong, but because OCD

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