Are Aspies clean or messy?

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[quote="fragileclover"]I think it's important to note that I'm rarely in my bedroom, not unless I'm sleeping. [quote="fragileclover"]

I see, I spend most of my time in my room, but you spend minimal time in yours. Maybe we should rate you as surgically sterile, but make it good enough for company since my poll didn't cover this aspect.

Messy, clean and everything in between.

My place definitely has that lived in look. However, there are lots of piles of stuff everywhere too.

It's funny because at work I'm considered clean and organized but at home I'm sooo lazy and messy. It's ironic because I love organizing things and stuff like that, I just don't have the drive to do it at home.

"Clean" and "tidy" are two different things.

Yes that's true; I wanted to fit those into a poll, and I'm beginning to see its probably better not to make a poll overly broad, or one runs risk of diluting the findings. I'm learning! Thanks for your observation.

I have the same problem it goes in between piles of stuff no hospitable human would live and sterile clean. But then I also have the lived in look as well. Most of the time though it's organized chaos. Piles are placed in specific areas.

My room is always tidy and ordered, but I don't go around spraying disinfectant.

My apartment is always tidy, but it's never 100% clean. Which doesn't mean that it's dirty, but I rarely ever clean the windows, dust off the furniture, or mop the floors. Usually, I only vacuum all spots that are easy to reach, and I immediately remove all clutter before it builds up. That makes sense to me. Scrubbing every corner with a toothbrush does not.

My windows are clean enough as long as they still let sufficient amounts of sunlight through. In my experience, it takes about 5-6 years until the light starts getting a little dim, so I only clean the windows in leap years. Dusting is an utterly pointless endeavour. If I frequently use a desk or table, it will remain dust free all by itself. And if I never use it, why would I care if it looks a little fuzzy? I also don't vacuum under furniture. I sit on the furniture, not under it, so I don't care about the evolutionary processes that might be going on in spaces that are too small for the cats to crawl into and start sneezing. I'm practical like that

Me (and my wife) to a tee!

My couches are tables.

Organized chaos. I know where everything goes, even if "where it goes" is in a pile. Drives my mum absolutely nuts, as she's definitely on the "neat and tidy" end of the spectrum.

disorganized chaos. i am congenitally incapable of being clean and tidy.

I keep the rest of my house pretty clean but my bedroom that is another story its a mess 95% of the time usually I get too lazy due to exhaustion and don't feel like cleaning it up right away. Ironicly when I am messy I know where everything is but when its cleaned it freaks me out of my routine.

This.

My apartment is a little bit untidy and cluttered. My mum is a clean freak and so was my grandma, and I guess I don't wanna be like them... 'Organized chaos' makes sense, I like to find everything at the exact place I have dropped them... I feel guilty about that when I lived with my grandma I often freaked out at her when she moved my stuff a little bit during cleaning...

Didn't you use to spell normally ? Did something happen ?