@ajmkv It's so good to hear from someone who feels similarly!
@fujicakes1 I sometimes wonder how perfectionism and disabilities/limitations relate. At least for me I feel like sometimes I have the urge for compulsive control (especially regarding creative things) not because it's something that I value a lot but because I feel like missing control in many other aspects of my life (like health, social situations etc.)
@haneul Yes, it's good and important to keep the terms apart. I'm not a fan of labeling toxic or potentially pathologic issues with euphemisms. I even once had a therapist who apparently preferred to call my perfectionist tendencies something like "in love with details" and that always felt wrong for me. I can value my attention to detail as a strong and positive characteristic but that's just not the same as beating myself up about things that turned out differently than I imagined...
In general I can say that it helped me to get some distance to my Sims' story over time. I usually start things out in extreme hyperfocus and can't think about anything else for a while and I'd say that issues with perfectionism are definitely worse in this stage. Now I feel like I have a little more perspective. The only downside is that my story now progresses way slower, haha.
