yeah I know what you mean, I have mysophobia so putting my hand on my face when it’s “dirty” would give me a literal panic attack but it’s fiction at the end of the day and I think the author just isn’t knowledgeable about it
That’s fair. At least it’s not a harmful perspective necessarily, but when you’re publishing pieces on a diverse subject that you aren’t part of/don’t really know much about it’s best to have someone in that group proofread or something. I feel like mysophobia and contamination OCD is soooo misrepresented in media which causes people to stay ignorant on the subject…
But then again this is Japan so lol
Agreeee. It made no sense
That’s the whole point. He didn’t have it. His problem was thinking he HIMSELF was the dirty one.
Oh ok mb for not finishing but isn’t that also under contamination OCD? I feel like by diagnostic criteria it would still be OCD given rituals / circular thinking
Idk what the point would be of having a manga where this guy goes through exposure therapy to cure his OCD when he doesn’t actually have it but maybe the point is flying over my head idk
Yes your right it’s still a form of OCD
To continue, the point of the manga is for him to realize he’s not dirty. And he deserves to experience different things. He may not have misophobia, but he still has a type of ocd (not sure which). And the exposure therapy breaks down his barrier slightly, but doing it with the ml is really what makes him realize he can start to let go of his problems. Like he finally reached out to his father again, and he interacts with his coworkers more, aswell as not wearing his gloves at work.
I didn’t finish this but imo the mysophobia is kind of inaccurate here… I’m now wondering if the author has/had mysophobia because the MC will straight up touch “contaminated” objects and then immediately afterwards put his WHOLE HAND on his face when he’s freaking out. Like hello? I know people have different experiences but this is just a little silly.