rofl at Blu's alternate personality.

I, on the other hand, am a paradigm of chilled out, common sense parenting with just the right amount of obsession .

<twitch twitch>

Well, all I know is that I arrived here after googling something that had been worrying me

I would answer a tentative yes.

Like people who consider doing a lot of social networking for their child is a job in itself.

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oh I'll hold my hand up to addictive personality

the type that is drawn is addictive personality not mentioned in the thread title

so they will post anything as long as they can stay here

f* fmv

actually do a search on agree with zippi

i got 249 so ner

and that doesnt even count my two point five years as someone else or my long name changes as santa baby of course etc etc

or people saying zippi hit the nail on the head

or people agreeing with zippitippitoes

but i did roffle too when i saw that

ROFL Zippi - just clicked your link and came up with 0 posts....so no-one agrees with you, ever

OP ''Most poeple I know are reasonably laid back and do not obsess about food/names/cleaning/parties etc etc any where near the extent that many on here seem to.''

No they just pretend. Then come on here under cloak of anonimity and obsess to their hearts' content.

You can't ask stupid/neurotic/embarassing questions in RL - not if you want to keep your friends from finding out what a fraek you are. That's why I love MN.

I man, how many people in RL can you ask ''Does anyone else shit themselves after bumsex''?

I don't know but my dh says he's going to cite Mumsnet in the divorce papers.

I do think perhaps it may be possible that a certain personality type may be more drawn to communicating anonymously with strangers...

<going to be killed for saying that>

Feckers, the lot of ye

Yeah it's you I had in mind Twiglett.

"neurotic obsessive and highly anxious"

Oh God I hope so.
Only here do I feel average

maybe that would be a good topic at a cocktail party twig...

no!

I'd like to know whether I come across as obsessive, neurotic or highly anxious? <opens floodgates>

lol at bundle.

Are you laughing at me? {grin]

zookper, don't just count them ffs, straighten them up you slacker

but you cant link to that page

yep it also attracts lots of people who

agree with zippi here

"neurotic obsessive and highly anxious?"

I'm really worried now. Really really really worried. I'm off to recount the tins in my kitchen cupboard. Again.

blu if you have photographic evidence of said clashing car, would love to see them later!

pmsl at Fabio's post

Also agree with Zippi

But I do agree that 'AIBU' exacerbates things.

It's bad psychology, not what you'd ever use with a toddler, in that it sets up the possibility of thinking that you might behave in a thoriughly unreasonable fashion. i.e people live up to the Board Name!

starngely i have been described as meinently sensible childish nuttily intelligent and lots of other things on mn

Well I help adjust the mean level of neurosis and bsession, never having been described as anything other than 'sensible' on MN.

But that's just my on-screen persona, heh heh... << goes back to distilling the sugar and sobitol out of DS's next dose of painkiller medicine and posting razor blades through the letterbox of the neighbour who has parked her car next to mine even though it does not match and makse the street look like an un-co-ordinated kerbside design disaster>>

I've never even taken myself to McD's, however I am partial to a BK spicy bean burger.

she did do the project by the way

i never took my kids to mcds or burgerking

or let them go to parties there [sad but true emoticon]

i even suggested/encouraged dd1 to do a topic on themcd trial when she was 9 or 10

she still reminds me of it now and she is 24

nah .. the nature of the internet means that every passing thought, the kind that in RL you'd just let move on, is or can be expressed

but yes in RL I do not know anyone who BFs toddlers, worries about organic food, obsesses about sweets or homework, is that competitive, or is scared of cliques at the school gates etc

I've never taken dd's to McD/BK fimbo, except for other children's parties (3 times, iirc)

I love the ones that say AIBU to give my child carrot sticks in the cafe?

By NeuroticMumWhoJustWantsToShowHowPerfectSheIs on Wed 03-Sep-08 10:19:56

I was in a cafe the other day and I was giving my DS some carrot stick and all of the other diners were giving me filthy looks because I wasn't giving him cake and a froot shott. AIBU for being soe god damn pwerfect?

I mean, I'm soo squeaky clean that I poo toothpaste


Followed by 10 posts of YANBU

I also don't believe people when they say they don't take their dc to BK/MacDonalds etc.

if you think about it then it letsn all the people who can never get through on phone ins loose

I think mn frees your inner nutcase and gives it a voice.
IT's the insidious call of the AIBU threads that's to blame.

you say things on mn that either you havent thought about at all and rattle off the cuff in a naosecond

or you say things on mn that you spend hours arguing about and defining that in rl you would dismiss in a nanpo second

Well the number of them on here put me off joining for quite a while

Then I realised there were plenty of fellow slatterns

Everyone here is so laid back they're horizontal. Or perhaps I just don't notice.

I remember now TDWP.

I actually know lots of neurotic, judgemental and obsessive compulsive folk in rl. There are ten a penny in this town.

a know a lot of neurotic obsessive moms in RL. this is where i come to find ohter slatterns poeple like me!

that thomas thing still pisses me off TDWP. you were soooo in the right.

and a lot of judgemental cosw as well

I think that 95% of posters fib. We are a bunch of lazy slatterns who mainline vodka and feed our children E numbers and let them watch far too much tv in their mickey mouse shell suits but we like to pretend otherwise.

The Thomas farce

Just don't bump it please. haha.

Really? what's the demographic for internet forums then?

yes, to be frank - it goes with the deomgraphic

Maybe it's just that the more neurotic, obsessive and highly anxious ones are more vocal and more prone to post about those types of subject...

What happened with the Thomas set, TDWP?

I know people like this in rl, most of my friends are neurotic nutters have very colouful personalities, as you describe.

It's just that people not on mumsnet are generally thick and don't realise how much damage one sweet would do.

I think that Zippis post at 15.19 hits the nail on the head.

Oh god remember the slating I got after the unwanted thomas table and train set.

I am not one of those mothers.

I just didn't want it.

Well I do know one in RL, but I thought she was one on her own till I came here.

She'd fit right in.

I find the cleaning/cleanliness obsessions the most dull too, closely followed by food.

I think it's more that as it's an internet forum, we are free to reveal the full extent of our neuroses without shame.....

those nice normal people you know in RL? Nutjobs, the lot of them.

God yes. I never meet these people in RL either.

lol

I am crap at typing, so I am one to talk, tbh

I thought I was being clever, but I have just made a nob of missen

but yes it does

i am always surprised at how botherted people get about insignifcuant stuff

I know a few in RL that would put the nuttiest MNers to shame.

Feel free to corect all my typo's Sheik, you can see my lacksidaisical approach to life extends to my typing.

You won't find me in pendants corner.

Sorry, I see now it was a typo

<gets back in box>

The people I know feed thier kids greggs sausage rolls and fruit shoots.

I didn't know character clothing and many other things were bad untill I joined MN

Describes me to a tee.

By the way, it's "personality"

<displays own neurosis>

There are lots of scary people on here, who are as cod describes

they'd go mental if they saw my style of parenting

add yourself to the list then, as you have more than one posting name/identity!

I think MN attracts these types. Very few of the opinions and behaviours I see on here are apparent in my real life friends and family.

i think it attracts people to talk a load of bollox that they wouldnt ever talk about in rl

i know some of them, norf london is stuffed with them

the cleaning lot are the dreariest, knew a woman who said "can't do playdate, staying in to wash Percival's toys" (and she meant in Dettol..)

You are asking a bunch of neurotic obsessives (iyo) if they are neurotic and obsessive?

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Not thinking of those with diagnosed disorders, more just those with this kind of personality type?

Or have I just been unaware in life that there were so many? Most poeple I know are reasonably laid back and do not obsess about food/names/cleaning/parties etc etc any where near the extent that many on here seem to.

We just kind of take a middle ground apply common sense and live life.

I have lately ( and under different names) been on so many threads where what seems to be obviously unecessarily neurotic and obsessive is seen as good sense by many, or at least normal and understandable.

So do you think MN attracts certain persinality types, or is there alot of this about?