Do aspies enjoy the "messy" aesthetic.

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Something I've noticed about me is that I've always enjoyed rooms over crowded with objects, decorations with a slight unorganized look. While others swear by the overly streamlined "furniture catalogue" look. Is this common with ASD? I ask this because my grandfather, who I highly suspect was an aspie apparently liked his backyard to have a somewhat ruggered look to it over the "keeping up with the Jonses" look. And Einstein, a supposed aspie had a somewhat messy desk.

I probably shouldn't say "messy"; cluttered is more what I mean.

I don’t like clutter.

I wouldn't say I like clutter, but my apartment is almost always a mess.

I prefer tidy, but not austere. I only achieve it in case of guests, though, as the multiple projects are usually organized with everything visible.

Why do Aspies here think everything they do, say, think and enjoy is an "Aspie thing"?

Because we know we're different from NTs, and most of the people who know are NTs.

When we observe ways that we are different from the NTs we know, we're curious to know whether it's neurological or personality driven.

We want to know whether, if you increase the sample size of both NTs and Aspies, whether you will get a similar result to what we observed ourselves when comparing ourselves to NTs that we know.

I HATE it when things are cluttered and disorganized! In my teen and early adult years I would keep my collections organized in a way that it's a wonder why no one thought I had OCD. The troll dolls on my shelf, the stuffed animals on my bed, they all had to be a certain number and neatly lined up and not mixed with my other toys or it would feel like tiny pins were pricking me all over my skin. I would often rearrange them but still not be satisfied, and it would cause me all kinds of discomfort and anxiety. But I'm barely organized now, I just seem to get messier with age. Not that I miss all the anxiety I had from obsessing over organizing my things.

Because from observation I noticed that my more neurotypicalesc social obsessed friends and family are the complete opposite while people I suspect of being ND aesthetic choice is more in line with mine.

I don’t like clutter. I’m a bit of a minimalist. I enjoy things that function, but do so while keeping their simplicity.

I am clutter's friend, but clutter doesn't consider me its friend. I seem allergic to neatness, a miracle worker could definitively neaticize my environment but within hours it would, as though an ill wind blew through, become disorganized again. my frontal lobes need some help.

I'm a messy person but it doesn't mean that I enjoy it.

I'm reasonably tidy but my flatmate (also autistic) most certainly is not. Every time we have a house inspection (we rent) her room requires the most cleaning beforehand.

My house is mostly very cluttered, mainly with stuff relating to my interests. I don't really like it that way but the one thing I would like even less would be having to sort it all out and then try and keep it tidy. The one room that is not cluttered is my bedroom. I do work hard to keep that free of stuff as I can't sleep well in a cluttered environment. So mostly cluttered is the lesser evil. At work however, I am very tidy and organised.

I can't stand a mess, but my private spaces are always in disarray.

However, I can't stand shared spaces to be out of order, and am frequently trying to keep them in order.

My preferred style of life would be simple, rustic even, and somewhat austere (minus my board game and book collections, and a nicer gaming table).

Certainly I prefer gardens with a messy aesthetic. Perfect lawns and neatly organised flowerbeds look bland and soulless to me. Winding stone paths and scruffy blackberry bushes are what I like outdoors.
Indoors however, I'm hyper-organised and utterly hate mess of any kind, as it has always interfered with my concentration. I live with other family members who are quite messy, so I'll often find myself cleaning up after them, too. My mum and I have a real thing in common there, lol! My bedroom is the epitome of my need for perfect order, of course. It certainly looks strange and by no means is perfect, but everything has it's designated place: to elaborate, if someone came in and moved one small object slightly out of position, I would know.

I like things pretty neat, however at the same time, I like having my stuff where I can see it so I know where everything is all the time. When things get too messy, I start to feel overwhelmed and stressed.