I didn't know there were others here who had it. (OCD)
My compulsion is perfectionism. A lot of people say they are "perfectionists" but they don't know what it really means. This is no exaggeration, I painted my dining room 7 times. All varying shades of blue. I could have painted my entire house in that time. But if I don't like the way it looks, I cannot leave it like that.
You aren't a perfectionist, until it starts to cause problems in your life, or, it would cause problems in the average persons life. E.g. We all know what a hoarder is. Are you no longer a hoarder because you have infinite space so it doesn't cause problems?
You may lean towards perfect with your work ethic, but if you are ever able to leave something alone, that is not absolutely, 100% perfect in your mind, you aren't really a
clinical perfectionist. I built most of my house myself (heating, plumbing, electrical, framing, design) because every house I looked at, had a minor detail I didn't like. Something utterly stupid like the shape of the backyard.
So I got a square lot, with a foreclosed home, gutted it, & built it exactly how I wanted it. Not because I wanted to...because I will obsess until I die if it's not "right."
Things can be out of order, this place needs a serious vacuum/mop today, & I don't care about germs. But if I got halfway done laying this hardwood (over the top of radiant floor heating I put it...plastic plumbing in the floor & nails don't like each other) if I was halfway done & didn't like it, I would rip it all up & start over. It's kind of sad actually, with a lot of relatively unimportant things, my mind won't let me leave it alone.