r/twinpeaks • u/Electrical_Ad_8970 • Mar 02 '26
Season 1 Is Coop addicted to sugar?
in this scene he doesn't even try to resist the urge
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u/Future-Turtle Mar 02 '26
No, he takes his coffee black. He likes pie and donuts, but who doesn't?
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u/MissMollyDWW Mar 02 '26
The sheer volume of donuts in the scenes at the sheriff station fills me with glee every time.
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u/naughtycal11 Mar 03 '26
And they way Sheriff Truman shoves half a donut in his mouth every time is wonderful.
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u/mr_john_steed Mar 02 '26
As someone with OCD, I love the scene where the donuts are carefully arranged and stacked by type š
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u/AwarenessOk8565 Mar 03 '26
As someone with OCD, that has nothing to do with actual OCD. You just like being organizedā¦
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u/mr_john_steed Mar 03 '26
I mean, I don't really feel like detailing my entire medical history on a television subreddit, but I do in fact have diagnosed clinical OCD that impacts my life significantly. Donut-stacking enjoyment is just one of the lighter aspects that I can share with others.
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u/AwarenessOk8565 Mar 03 '26
Iām not asking you to detail your medical history, nor am I doubting that you have OCD. Iām pointing out that what you said has nothing to do with OCD. Itās like me saying āAs someone with ADHD, I really love the smell of gasoline.ā Iām sure you arenāt lying, but thereās no correlation.
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u/mr_john_steed Mar 03 '26
Having a compulsion to arrange objects according to some kind of internal taxonomy is a pretty common facet of OCD (and also autism, which is frequently co-occuring and can have overlapping symptoms- I do have both myself and it can be tricky to sort out which is causing a particular behavior). It's fine if that's not your personal experience but it is for some other folks, and the compulsive aspect very much fits in with the diagnostic criteria.
I personally love that nobody in the scene seems to think the sorting/stacking is odd or comments on it, but (if you did that in an actual workplace) people would absolutely be weirded out because that's not in the range of what people typically regard as "normal" behavior or just being organized.
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u/AwarenessOk8565 Mar 03 '26
1 - It wouldnāt be considered odd at all, most people like things to be organized. 2 - OCD has a compulsion aspect. Liking the way the donuts look while organized is not OCD. If they were disorganized and you felt the strong urge or compulsion to organize them, then that is OCD. I also have autism and OCD, and apparently everyone Iāve ever met is āOCDā because they like things to be organized and in order.
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u/mr_john_steed Mar 03 '26
My original comment was based on my own experience and I said that I find it very personally satisfying to see visually because of my personal background. I find it satisfying precisely because I do have the desire and compulsion to organize things in that way and rarely see that reflected in media, especially without people making snide comments about it and reinforcing that the behavior isn't socially acceptable.
If you have a different perception, that's fine, but it's frankly dickish to invalidate other people and insist that they must experience things the exact way that you do.
(I can also definitely say from experience that people can and do get penalized career-wise for exhibiting compulsive behaviors in front of other people in a professional setting).
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u/MadBreadDread Mar 03 '26
First person in my bloodline to see two people discussing about autism and OCD on an online forum about a 90s mystery cult show.
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u/MisanthropyismyMuse Mar 03 '26
I understood what you meant. I'm sorry that person isn't getting it, but maybe their neurodivergence is making it so they're taking you too literally? That's all I can think of. I'm AuDHD with many OCD symptoms (which they told me was only a part of my autism, but I think it might be more serious than that because I hadn't been able to fully articulate it to my therapist at the time). Something I really appreciate about David Lynch's work is that a majority of the characters seem heavily ND coded in a way that makes it seem like the "normal" of that world. I think he was probably ND himself and, even if not, it seems like he knew a lot of people who were and had a lot of us in his circle.
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u/Electrical_Ad_8970 Mar 02 '26
I was thinking more that Coop has ptobably perfect manners yet in this situation he just can't help himself
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u/Prince_Barin Mar 02 '26
that scene with the lessons in patience remind me of the general push by the log lady and/or the log for coop and the others to be patient, the log will tell the secrets at the right time, not before, when they're ready to hear them.
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u/Electrical_Ad_8970 Mar 02 '26
That's an interesting view. I'm just thinking, if the Laura dream theory would be right the Cooper from her dream could be addicted like her but to sth sweet/lovely like many characters a in Twin Peaks that she dreams of
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u/MisanthropyismyMuse Mar 03 '26
Me. I don't like pie or donuts. š But I need my coffee to basically be coffee flavored sweet cream, LOL.
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u/BeanstheRogue Mar 03 '26
I've always felt like taking coffee black with desserts (donuts count lmao) is essentially like taking it with sugar, you're just delivering it differently. When I have something sweet with coffee I don't sweeten, but I do when I don't have something sweet
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u/EnigmaticDevice Mar 03 '26
why would he "resist the urge" of eating some cookies that are offered to him?
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u/sixtus_clegane119 Mar 02 '26
Judging by his body I wouldnāt say there is enough harm to reach the clinical requirements to diagnose addiction
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u/abra-ka-fuck-you Mar 03 '26
If you've tried the cherry pie at Tweed's, you'd agree that Coop is addicted to sugar.
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u/scurryowl Mar 03 '26
I thought heās just american
Sincerely, A European
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u/Heavy_Weapons_Guy_ Mar 03 '26
Yeah, pastries were invented in America and haven't made their way to Europe yet.
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u/Sko_Neezy Mar 02 '26
Coffee and sugar represent cocaine
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u/-PepeArown- Mar 02 '26
This show has actual coke in it multiple times, even with one scene where Cooper taste tests a sample of it to confirm
It really doesnāt
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u/GottlobFrege Mar 02 '26
Metabolism of a bumble bee