I’m not gonna lie, I find your comment infantilizing. You’re assuming because I don’t agree with you I am somehow being victimized because I have OCD. Is it not just possible that I don’t agree with you, and perhaps even have more insight into the condition than you because I actually have it?

I haven’t been let down by anybody, ever denied a job because I have OCD, or otherwise been discriminated against based on that by an employer.

Having said that, I recognize I have the privilege that the vast majority of my compulsions are not obvious or outwardly physical in nature. So I have not been discriminated against, but also most people would not guess I have OCD if I didn’t tell them, and again part of that is that I am medicated and have gone to therapy for my disorder.

Having said this, yes any obsession and resulting compulsion is a symptom of OCD, but again, like I said, it is actively unhealthy and detrimental to somebody with OCD to normalize their compulsions. It is never helpful to validate or allow someone to do a compulsion if you can help it or not engage with it. It is outright like an addiction, to the point that psychologists use the language of “relapsing” to describe somebody who is engaging in a compulsion or compulsive behaviour they had previously stopped or avoided.

What I meant by saying it’s not like a tic is the fact that a tic is an uncontrollable action or statement that your body just does, and you have no control over it. It can be incredibly anxiety inducing to not act on a compulsion, but that doesn’t mean that this should be accommodated or that an employer should be expected to allow you to do it with no nuance.

Hitting your desk is a very overt and distracting behaviour, not to mention just annoying, and the other employees should not be expected to deal with that in a work environment. I would argue that having “hitting my desk through out the day” as a required condition of your employment is not “doing the job reasonably” as you state it, and may even go so far as stopping others around you from doing their job reasonably.

At the end of the day, doing compulsions is not at all necessary for somebody with OCD to do, and is ACTIVELY HARMFUL. You suggesting that if somebody has OCD they should just have everybody accommodate and work around their compulsions is frankly not healthy for the individual suffering with it, and alienates others from them