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Photos of UST event’s seating arrangement are triggering people’s anal retentiveness

The term “anal retentive” has been used in the field of psychology to describe people who have a strong obsession to attention to detail. Shortened most of the time to “anal”, the coined term from Freudian psychoanalysis groups is now used loosely to refer to individuals who feel the need to control aspects of the environment they live in.

Studies show that people with anal retentive personality are generally perfectionists in nature, with a compulsive need to put order and tidiness to their surroundings. It should be noted that Anal Retentiveness is different from Obssessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The former can be relegated to quirky behaviour, while the latter is a clinical diagnosis.

Now apparently, a lot of Pinoy Twitter users are anal retentive. Are you one of them? Take a look at this set of photos and see if they bother you as well. On May 24, Filipino Twitter user PULA (@paula_eunice99) tweeted a set of bird’s eye view photos of a seating arrangement done for what seemed to be an event by the University of Santo Tomas. What seemed like a regular setup from a macro view suddenly became a huge deal for anal retentive people when PULA started zooming in on the photos:

For better appreciation:

Soon, people started noticing other details that were out of place in the setup.

Soon, people started noticing things OUTSIDE of the setup:

Interestingly, people had a lot of creative things to say about the seating arrangement:

If the photos sort of bothered you, don’tcha worry–these kuya manongs tidied them up for all of you:

So…are you (or are you not) anal retentive?   InqPOP!/VT

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