I've just remembered that as a child, I told someone that I "liked to tidy," and my mother immediately said that that wasn't true, as my room was never tidy. (It's taken me a long time to learn how to organize my life.) But I wasn't able to explain what I really meant, which was that though I disliked cleaning, I loved organizing - putting things into categories, compartments, ordered lines, and so forth.
I also remember going to my grandmother's, where I received a doll and my brother a set of Matchbox cars. I tried undressing and re-dressing the doll, but my grandmother told me it "wasn't nice to do that to the dolly," so instead I joined my brother's car games - by lining the cars up in order of size, type or color, and then by spinning the wheels on them (yes, I remember doing this, and I was sort of embarrassed to learn recently that it's well-known behavior on the spectrum).