That live feed last night really shone a light on Nick. You can see straight off he has some real issues. He has OCD. I could see it straight off with the hair, eyebrow, face touching and shaking constantly last night during his conversaion with Eileen. I really felt for him and I think there's a lot more to him.

I love Nick and think he is really interesting.

When the BBOTS people keep saying he is constantly picking his nose he isn't he is just touching it. He has various ticks and twitches and I agree has some real issues. I don't know what they are but there is something going on.

Yeah I agree I really like him. He's not picking his nose he's touching it like you said. He has a lot of little things he does in succession I noticed last night. The hair touching on launch night came across as maybe he loved his hair or something but that's actually something he can't stop himself doing.

Yeah, I've noticed this stuff too. And his trembling. He seems like a bag of nerves a lot of the time.

It's sad more people don't recognise this. I just saw someone slagging him off for always playing with his hair in the Facebook page.

I noticed it on launch night; he has very crusty, dry lips because he peals them too much, and he picks his nose a lot, too.

You could well be right . I noticed the constant playing with the hair, and nose touching etc and thought they were just annoying nervous habits . I only noticed the hand shaking yesterday and thought he's a bag of nerves . I certainly will have more respect and consideration for him in future .

It was more a sign of Social Anxiety than OCD. I'm terrible for it, sometimes i can't even look people in the eye when i'm talking to them and i will do what he does, shake, touch my face, itch my neck and my heart will beat faster.

The other day when he was put on the spot and had to do face to face noms it was even more visable. It's amazing that he has even entered the show.

That is what I thought watching last night. He just seems so nervous all the time.

It's a combination of both. Some are OCD related traits. He probably has both tbh. I live with someone with terrible social anxiety plus OCD and she does a hel lof a lot of different things including the shaking. I do the lip picking myself which is a form of OCD.

Where did you do your medical training?

Lol. I care for my mother who has agoraphobia, personality disorder and a range of other mental health issues. I could write pages on the OCD things she does and her anxiety. She has so many different little things she does and develops new ones every day. I've cared for her since I was a child myself. Plus I also have anxiety issues, I have no medical training but when you've lived it for over 30 years you can easily spot it.

I also have OCd myself. I will rip the skin off my lips and fingers until they are raw and bleeding. My mum does sooooo many differnt things I'd be here all day listing them. It was obvious watching that live feed he also has issues.

I always find it hard to look people in the eye and have the same feels but, once I get to know someone have well I am fine and I don't do it.

Anyway, the other day (I think it was in the debate task) he said he finds it very hard to do public speaking. I really like and have done from the start.

It is so scary how people lack basic observation skills. Like, these things are in your face. I don't see how there is even a choice to miss them??? From the moment we saw him on launch night, you could see what he was about. But everyone was swindled by his posh accent and VT.

I agree. It's obvious to see. I don't like that poster asking about my medical training and me having to go into things to explain myself. Just watch last nights LF it's obvious.

His most pressing issues right now are a lack of spine and character.

he's not what he seems imo and it's not accident that he doesn't have friends outside, something is really unattractive and cringey about him

At first I thought Nick's hand was spontaneously shaking last night on live footage but when I looked again I noticed it was actually resting on his knee that he was moving up and down.

I sometimes shake my knee like that to release tension like when stuck in a car in a traffic jam. In a stressful situation some people will resort to tension releasing behaviours and self comforting.

I think he needs to lay of the booze

must be Aspergers .

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I agree, the question wasn't nice. You didn't need to justify yourself but thank you for sharing. Life is sometimes all the "training" we need.

I was wondering how long it would take somebody to say that.

Thank you x

We haven't had a "is xyz Aspergers?" thread this series.. was waiting for it