Why do NT females keep having to move furniture around?

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My mum moves furniture all da tym as she spends indoors most of da tym.

Here’s a solution for those of us who like to move the furniture around; move into a smaller house where you don’t have many options on where to move the furniture. Unless you want to change what furniture goes in what room, but I highly doubt anyone wants to sleep in their dining room.

I was a furniture rearranger when I lived in a slightly bigger house. Since moving, I’ve only moved the furniture in the living room around once in the 3 years I’ve been here.

In college, we had the lamest furniture: one set of drawers, two bookshelves, a bed frame, and a plank of wood for the desk. Everyone hated it, except me. I thought it was fun because of all the different things you could do with it. I actually had people ask me to rearrange their rooms for them. One of my favorite arrangements was having everything on top of the bed frame with the mattress underneath. Not exactly functional, but at least it was different from the standard arrangement.

More recently, I do it to pull my kids out of a funk. Whenever life gets a bit tedious and they get cranky and bicker all the time, I move something. You wouldn't believe how their faces light up. It changes their perspective and kind of draws them out of themselves. Much cheaper than buying toys.

I don't think my mom does this much at all. She sure has done a lot of remodeling, though. One time she was home sick with a cold and my dad was worried she would start watching all those remodeling shows and want to change everything again.

My mother is a bit like that. I don't get it at all. Once I've figured out where something goes, I want it to stay that way.
Apparently they really like to change things from time to time. I like things to stay where they are, and if I do change something it is because it's necessary and I make the change to keep it in another way for a long time.

Some years ago, my mother and I were going through books in a book case. It was fine at first. We went through the books, discarded some and put them back in the case. But then she changed her mind and took them all out again and rearranged them. The third time I gave up. To me it's terribly boring. I wanna do the work and get it over with. I do not enjoy changing it over and over in the least.

Just before I turned 6 we moved to the area we live in now. I once asked her why we moved back then. She said that it was closer to work, but mostly she wanted a change of scenery, and she wanted us to move before I started school (we began school at age 7 back then; now it's 6).

NTs crave change on a scale I sure don't, even though I do like some changes.

My mom wanted to rearrange my room every year when we cleaned it but I never let her. She didn't rearrange the rest of the house much except when her & dad bought new antique furniture.

I'm a female and have AS but I used to like to rearrange my room when I was a teenaged girl. Because it was fun to experiment with my own space and my stuff. It was when I got to an age when I started feeling that sense of "this is my space and I'm now old enough to choose what to do with it," it was enjoyable to exert that control and autonomy, almost like playing house and finding out which configuration works best.

At the same time I was a person who hated change in everything else! Go figure. But I think the difference was, this was change I had complete control over, and which could result in optimized space, storage and aesthetics, or even just something novel (as long as it was my own decision). So it was fun to me.

I don't do it much anymore, but I'm still always thinking about how much better this very small apartment might be if this was there and that was here.

It's basically a love of problem solving combined with improved functionality of a space, as well as improved aesthetics.

It's not an NT thing. I think people just get bored with their room layouts and moving things around is the next best thing to having a new room.

I can't really move furniture around in my house because the room sizes mean there's only one way to have things. My bed is too heavy anyway (thick wooden queen).