Obsessive Cleaning Disorder LLC was started by a 10-year software developer looking for a better life than what corporate America offered.  Her dream was to utilize her ADHD strengths - which despite popular belief, is an intense and incredibly focused attention span - rather than fighting against the weaknesses that the disability can also lend itself toward within the tech world, the corporate world - all worlds.

Yes, our business name acronym is OCD (we wanted "hyper-focused cleaning disorder" or HCD, it just felt a bit awkward and "obsessive" was the next-most accurate word). But our origin story is rooted in ADHD traits for which obsession over details is entirely true. While the ADHD brain is known for its lack of ability to pay attention, that couldn't be further from the truth. The reason Obsessive Cleaning Disorder has more than 100 reviews that are 5-stars on the hiring platform TaskRabbit, and nothing less than a 4-star at the time of writing, is thanks to this business owner's ability to focus at an unmatchable level (...when cleaning, and at no other time)

Because we lean into the fun side our neurodivergent traits, which tend to waver between incredibly powerful and out-of-nowhere debilitating at a given moment, the educational side must follow. In our blog we explain some of the misconceptions are neurodivergent abilities and disabilities (for example, medically diagnosing OCD has nothing inherently to do with cleaning). The lines that we draw between educating each other about cognitive disorders, navigating them, and celebrating them, is some real spaghetti code.  In our blog and advertising channels, we hope to clean up the messy expectations around them. But, as we say during our cleaning tasks - "it has to get messier before it gets cleaner!"