How public are you with your OCD?

This is just me personally to the extent possible I keep most of it to myself serving the greater overall good I feel . I see no benefit on mentioning it all to 99% of people. There are only drawbacks as far as me personally. Everyone is different with entirely different circumstances and personal preferences and makeup.

I’ve had OCD for all my life but have been diagnosed at the start of this year, so most of my ocd behaviors seem “normal” to people that know me. Therefore I haven’t told anyone other than very close fiends/family members. Regardless, with new people I’ve met I have had to kind of hint that I have ocd, so that they can understand certain feelings and thoughts I may be having and how my general mood is. Saying that I have OCD honestly makes me feel like I’m complaining too much, possibly because the general public perception of ocd is so stained with many misperceptions.

I'm not very open about suffering from mental health issues in general. As a teenager, I had been much more open about it and I got backlash from "friends", classmates and even teachers. I didn't suffer from any taboo OCD subtypes back then, but it still hurt. After I developed taboo OCD subtypes, e.g. POCD and ZOCD, I only told my family, a few friends and "professionells" in the mental health sector. I got backlash there, too. This really send me spiraling every time, especially, when people who should know about OCD and it's many subtypes, have no clue about it and ask stupid question, like "But you never did something to a child, right?" All those negative experiences let me to be very closed up about my mental health issues and I only tell people on a need-to-know basis. My more taboo OCD subtypes are something I barely speak about with anyone.