Do you have trouble with proper hygiene?

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All the time. I can not even help it. I try, but I forget about it and when people start screaming at me I hate it so I do not clean up anyway. I just hate screaming and yelling. Anyhow I think it is not always a problem.

No, I pretty much can't function let alone leave the house without showering/brushing my teeth/etc.

I don't have as much trouble with hygiene now as I did when I was younger. I did not like brushing my teeth as a kid; I hated the taste of toothpaste. I did grow more use to it when I got older.
I too sometimes forget to shower sometimes, especially when I'm caught up in something. I usually can't last a day or two without a shower. I also try hardest to maintain my grooming habits, like brushing my hair.

Your body sheds skin cells and they drop on the floor, etc. This means that if you haven't vacuumed in years, you are walking on lots of old skin cells that are being ground into the carpet. There is a good chance that they produce an unpleasant smell too that you probably don't notice because you live there. I'd seriously vacume the floor. I'd say once a week is the minimum but in your case could you force yourself to do it maybe once a month? What would it hurt to do it? It would only take ten minutes or so.

People shouldn't scream at you over showering. Who screams at you about that and when/why do they? That's completely out of line IMO.

Ditto, I have to shower as soon as I wake up. I'm so paranoid about my hygiene.

Sometimes when I'm busy doing something, I forget to shower or brush my teeth. Brushing my teeth is the worst problem for me, because not only do I forget to do it, but I also don't like the way it feels.

I remember my parents punishing me when I was little because I didn't want to brush my teeth.

It sucks for me to be female because I only shave like once every 2-3 months. I have yet to shave my legs and armpits from their winter growth.

It's strange though because my male aspie friend has excessive hair growth in his back shoulders and he has to shave them every day just to keep it at bay. I wish I had his commitment to hygiene.

I also rarely ever floss.

On the upside, showers have become much more of a daily routine for me now since my new job gets me incredibly dirty and exposed to all kinds of potential germs and bacteria. It's a welcome change from my school days when a shower was only guaranteed every 2-3 days.

I can go quite a while without bathing before I feel dirty.

I think a lot of people bathe too much and hold others to their excessively high standards that may or may not be appropriate for others.

One example is hair washing. Not everyone needs to wash their hair every single day. It's not good for your hair and strips out the natural oils. I read a long hair forum and many there do not wash their hair that often and do alternative things like wash with conditioner only or their own homemade recipe to reduce the damage to their hair and help it grow longer.

I recently learned about something called the "no poo" movement. Look it up on google. These people don't use shampoo at all and say that hair can be self cleaning. Most use baking soda and water to wash and vinegar and water to rinse but some use just water or homemade shampoo. They also say you should use a boar bristle brush to massage the scalp and distribute the sebum down the hair shaft. I recently quit using all store bought shampoo and conditioner and make my own from natural ingredients and oil my hair like some people on the long hair forum do and my hair looks and feels better than when I used shampoo. My dandruff went away and my hair tangles less. I've seen many people in the comments on no poo sites say that their hair would be "so oily" if they don't wash it every day. Mine is very dry and never gets oily no matter how little I wash it.

I'm lazy about bathing and am still figuring out a routine that keeps me from stinking but without daily bathing.I'm thinking a bath 1-2 times a week (maybe more in the summer if I'm sweaty) and washing up at the sink every day would be ok. I quit using store bought products there too. One thing I learned in my searches for natural alternatives is that rubbing apple cider vinegar under your arms a couple of times a day eliminates underarm odor. No more aluminum containing antiperspirants for me.

The only thing I haven't gone natural with is toothpaste because my mother didn't buy me baking soda yet.

I absolutely need to maintain good hygiene in order to function. I wouldn't be able to stand myself otherwise. And quite apart from the smell, greasy hair and oily skin also just feel horrible to me.

I hate smells and scents - both the artificial ones that are supposed to be good, and the body odour that comes from not washing. Apart from avoiding both on myself, I avoid other people with them like the plague. Both kinds are inappropriate impositions on other people.

So no, no personal problems in the hygiene department here.

I've been having shower every other day and brush twice daily for eons. It's just a very rigid habit now. If I don't follow the routine I feel restless. I tried for a while to stretch it to every 3 days but my hair felt too oily, and when I'm oily I feel too hot. It might be a sensory thing but I just can't stand greasy feeling on my skin. I never use lotion or body oils. I wash my hands about a million times a day as well. Not worried about germs at all, I just can't stand anything remotely oily or sticky.

I generally maintain good hygiene, but if I'm not meeting anyone on a given day I might skip the shower to save water and not having to wash my clothes so frequently, though will never go for more than 2 days without one (at around that point I start to feel it).

One thing I've noticed about my hair is that as I've gotten older, it doesn't get so oily between shampoos and I can go longer between them now. When I was 20 I had to wash my hair every day, and sometimes I had to wash it in the late afternoon so it would look good for a date that night but now that I'm almost 50 I wash it about once a week, except in the summer when I've been sweating a lot. The hairspray, etc seems to keep it from getting oily and next day hair styles a lot better than freshly washed hair.

Did you have an abcess from not washing ???

I have a difficult time with showering due to sensory issues, so I try to do it at least once a week. I hate the scent of shampoo/soap, the water hitting my skin, standing on the wet floor, etc. I panic when I get water on my face. The act of showering (water hitting me) makes me lightheaded and dizzy, and I've fallen in the shower a few times because I have a hard time keeping my whole foot on the floor (putting my heels down.) When I lived in my last apartment, I used to take baths instead and could do so with greater frequency since its not nearly as overstimulating, but now that I share a bathroom with three other people I cannot bring myself to take one here.

Oral hygiene is at the opposite end of the spectrum for me - I'm very good at keeping my teeth brushed and flossed. This is partly because I was gifted with the bad teeth gene when born into my family and I don't want them to get any worse than they all ready are.

I hardly ever remember to wash my clothes unless someone reminds me to do so. Whenever I finally do get it done, I feel so overwhelmed by the amount of clothing I have (which is not that much in comparison with some people I know) and I never know what to wear.