oh like on the tv right that is the type of OCD she has right?

So I am alittle IRKED to say the least by the ignorance of the people around me and the people in the lives of me and my husband.  over the past weekend my husband had a going away graduation going away party for one of the women that he went to graduate school with and a number of the people at the party were asking where i was. some of the have a cursory understanding of OCD and my husband had explained that i sometimes have a really hard time going out with people and especially when it involves going to parties where i don't know the people at the parties and that i really try to suppress my rituatlizing. to the point that it really stresses me out and i am afraid that i am going to have a psychogenic seizure.  so there were a couple of women at the party that were inquisative and asked more about the condition and what it entailed and were actually educating themselves.  which i think is GREAT i have no problem with my husband sharing information about my condition i want people to understand OCD and understand that people like me can have it and seem to be OK on one day and then really be having a very hard time with it on the next day.  So then one of the people was really going after my husband about why I wasn't there and where was.  So my husband said oh she is having a really hard time with her OCD and gets really self conscious at parties about her rituals and it is just too much for her to come down right now.  and this person goes. oh so you have like his and hers towels right? and he goes what? yeah like on tv like his and hers towels? he goes no ***** (<---this persons name) that is not what her OCD is and that isn't an accurate representation of the disorder.  she is like well you must have seperate towels. and  could not get past the fact that handwashing is not the only ritual in the ocd community. when i heard about it i wanted to call this person up and just yell at them.  but that isn't an appropriate response to ignorance.

I just feel that the media has done such a good job of either making fun of the disorder because they somehow think that having this disorder is somehow laughable or saying that people who have OCD have these violent inapproriate thoughts and should be shunned that no one really knows about how much suffering as a community we are suffering.  There are days were I just cry continually on the way to and from work over it.  It physically hurts me and no one without the condition can fully appreciate it.