Calendars

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Does anyone else have a liking for them? I always find making or purchasing a new calendar very enjoyable and really look forward to beginning it; the satisfying process of dividing something - in this case, the years and months themselves - up into neat, visible sections and crossing each section off as it passes. The more detail that is included on a calendar, and thus the more the days can be broken down and allocated a label, the more enjoyable it is to me. Lots and lots of illustrations are good, although they must be season/month/day appropriate; I would never choose a calendar that simply featured random pictures.

I'm not sure why this is. Something about having a visual record, seeing things laid out in order, and being able to see advance alerts as to what will be happening on each day is immensely satisfying. I like being able to record progress and make daily updates in general. If I can't place these specific kinds of 'markers' in my life, I feel lost and vaguely depressed.

I'm the same way and have been that way since I was a kid. I remember that my father would sit at the table for hours each December and would mark up the new calendar with notes for every occasion and anniversary. As an adult, I have 3 calendars on my walls at work. I also always have my blackberry with me, so I can use that calendar when not at my desk. The calendar theme doesn't make much difference to me, but I am very picky about the style/layout of the calendars.

I love my Outlook Calendar and rely on it totally. Once, when it wasn't working, my life became a mess. I feel a lot of relief when I can rely on my calendar and not have to think all the time what it is I'm supposed to be doing now. I take time to organize the calendar every day, then I can relax and just do as it says.

i enjoy looking at them when i order things off of ebay, im usually worring about when it will get here though so its mostely a bad time for me. like take for instance right now, something i orderd my 32 ct baby should get here tomorrow, and i hope it does!

I'm glad I'm not the only person. I also remember when I was very young, I had a toy clock to help me with learning to tell the time, and there was a picture beneath each hour depicting what a child might be doing at that time (eating breakfast, walking to school, etc.) I found that very pleasing just to look at and consider. "This is what happens at this time; this is what happens at this time." Just the idea of the rigid schedule and living in a 'segment' of that, working towards small goals when it would change to the next segment, was very soothing.

I (and others) sometimes bump threads that we feel are leaving too soon. This is one I thought would get hundreds of posts, given that they say that people with Asperger's are obsesses with train schedules, etc. so I thought calendars would be a major special interest around here. I see that some "official symptoms" are little more than Hollywood cliches of autism.

I've always had a 'thing' about calendars too. Especially as a kid.
If I got a kind of calendar or pocket book, I often would use it writing a story I made up e.g. about a family who experienced different things through the months and seasons. Or I would write something down about what could be done or what was special about the months and seasons.
I also would do the same with e.g. plans for what one could do during a day or a week.
And at almost 5 years, I began to keep a diary (I found an old one which had belonged to my mother, but which had empty pages). At first I just wrote down random stuff, but then my mother told me that a diary was a book where you wrote down what you experienced through the day. Then I started to do that.
From then and until this day, I still keep a diary. The one I use now is a calendar with beautiful drawings of motives that belong to the season / month.

Last edited by AnnePande on 06 May 2009, 6:41 am, edited 1 time in total.

AnnePande, that's amazing - this is exactly the kind of thing I mean. Having this - fairly rigid - schedule to stick to, labelling it, and knowing exactly what is expected at each point of it, is very enjoyable and relaxing to me.

I love calenders! If I had the money I'd but calenders from different cultures to try to make an all encompassing calender that organizes all of them. That would be a fantastic computer program, if I could just learn programming. I made a calender system for my fantasy world with longer years and 2 moons.

That's interesting, I thought it was just me (not that it mattered if it was just me - for all people are different - but it's funny to discover it as an aspie trait). I am not sure, though, that I was very conscious about the fact that it was a rigid schedule (or maybe I was; the order and the schedule was a nice thing), but I thought about all the things that could be done and experienced through a year - bathing in the summer, playing with snow in the winter, celebrating Christmas and so.
Funny to meet another one that likes calendars too!