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OCD, or obsessive compulsive disorder, is an illness characterized by uncontrollable repetitive behaviors or thoughts. In Fun Home,  Alison reminisces on how her OCD episode affected her as a ten-year-old. Her uncontrollable fear of lying in her diary causes her to doubt her own senses and thoughts, and to rectify this, she writes "I think" before every sentence. Eventually, "I think" becomes too long of a word for Alison to write, resulting in her colloquializing "I think" as an upside down Aries symbol. T he later diary entries become almost unsettling because of how much they are consumed in doubt.  On the weekend where she sees the body of a boy her age at the funeral home, the "I think" symbol takes over the entire page.  I found it particularly poignant that her compulsions are at their worst after seeing such a stark image of death. The corpse caused her such uncertainty and nervousness that she hit the peak of her obsessiveness with being...