Clean Room / Messy Room

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I am messy but my messiness is organized. I know, it sounds strange but I have to be messy to find my stuff, whenever my room is clean and tidy, I fail to find my stuff but I always know where it is when it's messy.

I hate mess in other rooms though. Apart from books, laptop, pentablet and teddy bear (I collect them), I don't like possessing a lot of things, the fact that people give me so many things is probably the reason why I don't find a place for them since what I like is always clean and tidy.

As one-A-N said about ADHD, "useless things".

I love clean, organized spaces... but I have a problem making it happen. I enjoy doing it, but something else is always vying for my attention, so I just leave a mess. Living on my own has just made this into a huge problem. I've thought about enforcing a "no mess, no laziness" policy on myself, but who's gonna make me stick to it? Being alone and having no one enforce anything on me makes it tough.

I need to keep all my space in perfect order. I can't deal with any stacks of stuff, or boxes of "misc stuff". I guess I'm OCD, as I not only fold my underwear, but I rotate all of my clothes so that the things newly washed go on the bottom of the stack (on stacked clothing), and hung items go in order where the newly washed is all the way to the left. That way, I wear out all my clothes evenly over time, and I never wind up wearing a pair of socks nearly worn out one day, and nearly new the next. And the most important thing: I can know exactly what I have, and exactly when I need to do laundry. I also like to know exactly where everything I own is located, and be able to go right to it without hunting and searching.

When I was a little kid, I'd put all my toys back in the original packaging, and pretend they were brand-new every time I'd play with them. It was more fun for me to put Legos back in their correct little compartments in the box, than to actually play with them.

Charles

I was recently evaluated and told that though I have lots of AS traits, I'm married, so, no diagnosis.

I'll be seeking out a specialist when I can afford it. I believe I am on the spectrum and have exhibited red flag symptoms my whole life.

I am a fairly neat person but I think that has more to do with anxiety caused by cluttered visual spaces rather than AS. I am diagnosed OCD and ADHD. The ADHD seems to prompt me to lay something down as soon as a distraction arises but the OCD makes me want to get it out of the way as soon as I realize what I've done. lol!

My ADDness trumps my OCDness every time; I am a mess maker.

My room is 'tidy' by my standards. I sometimes like to call it an organized mess.lolTo me, 'tidy' means that I can find things when I need them. As long as I know where things are, it's 'tidy' and I'm happy, even if they're on the ground, or where they're not supposed to be. On the other hand, when my room is not 'messy', it's frustrating, because then I panic when I can't find things, and it ends up being worse, because I make a bigger mess looking for them.

My room is the textbook meaning of chaos theory. People may seem it is really messy and unorganized but the mess has been laid out in a timeline. So when i look for somethin if i know how far back was the last time i used it i will know in what part of the room it is. Now my phone i keep nice and organized and many people have told me how it is so. My computer is not so organised mostly because i like having everything on the desktop to save the 2 seconds it would take me to open a folder.

You'd find that 50/50 of the times, my room is clean and there are obviously times when I just can't be bothered and it becomes really messy, so really its abit of both.... **:oops:** pretty embarrassed now.

If it's my stuff, I don't really care if it's organized or not. If it's, say, for work, I'm almost OCD about organization and presentation.