Sweets ~N~ Stuff OCD Candy Co.

A personal apology to everyone

In my rush and frustration to update the page and get it over with I neglected to write out some very important information. I refer to it as a disclaimer, as there’s no other phrases coming to mind, that my boss (the founder) has me put on all our social media pages. Because of my negligence I offended a reader and possibly others who were too upset to say so.

I am so, so sorry to have caused anyone any kind of emotional distress. Please don’t let my idiocy color your opinion too negatively about the company.

It is not and never has been our intention to make fun of anyone with OCD. Nor is it our intention to downplay the severity of some cases. We are not trying to “..focus on a habit and blow it out of proportion by calling it OCD…” I am so sorry that my mistake made you feel this way.

We focused on something personal and have turned it into something we can control. Something we can do to help others. Something that can be embarrassing and stressful, even if it doesn’t seem like it would be.

Before I continue postrating myself at your feet, I’ll leave off this apology with a story.

A woman came through Sweets N Stuff, browsing for nothing in particular, when she spotted the OCD Candy products we have on display. She immediately grabbed a package of same colored gummy bears and brought it to the counter. She proceeded to tell us that she had been unable to eat gummy bears in years because the wide array of colors was “just too much for her too handle.”

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Anonymous asked: I just wanted to say that I am disappointed. To choose to focus on a habit and blow it out of proportion by calling it "OCD" is stigmatizing. Do you even know what the symptoms of OCD are? That individuals have severe intrusive thoughts that give them extreme anxiety leading them to do compulsions (yes, in some cases, counting or organizing foods but NOT all) to reduce the anxiety? They feel that they MUST do those compulsions or else something bad will happen. It's simply not funny in the least

Yes, we understand very well, and personally, what OCD is. It is not our intention to make fun of, or make light of, the people that struggle through it. You have my sincerest apology for not making this clear and upsetting you.

This company was started by someone with OCD, one who’s compulsion is mild and food based. Just as not all compulsions are food based, not all cases are severe. Our goal is to try and make things easier, a little less stressful, for people with food based compulsions.

Personally I understand just how frustrating and, to use the mildest word I can think of, mortifying it is to have. My boyfriend is embarrassed to take me grocery shopping with him, yet he has no choice since I’m better at finding deals. I always end up stopping to straighten displays, to group things in sets of three, and end up leaving the store making sure to try and look like I’m laughing about it instead of feeling like dying.

I can’t stress enough how sorry I am to have upset you, especially since it’s my fault for not making things clear. It was never the founder’s intention, or mine, to make light of OCD.

Whoo updated layout!

So I was getting quite fed up with the fact that, while otherwise perfect, our layout wasn’t showing our pages!!!

So I said forget that, found a different one from Dollie crave. A really cute one with bunnies in teacups!!

Still didn’t show the dang pages!!!

So we’re back to basic with the nice spring time layout! Our Description is up to date, the ask box is up, and we’ve added a new page, called OCD Candy Co. telling all you wonderful tumblrs about our brand spanking new, born in Tacoma, candy company!

For now we’re still Sweets ~N~ Stuff but soon enough we’ll be known only as OCD Candy. 

And you lovely folks get to hear it first! More to come tonight about your new company’s products as well as our new Easter products, which should have been up a month ago and our new assortment of prom accessories!

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