Kjartan wrote:
* My living quarters appear very messy to others, with objects all over the floor and counters. However, this enables me to take in all of my objects in my visual field at once, so I know where they are. If any of those objects are stored where I cannot see them (e.g. in a drawer), even if stored in a logical and organized sequence, I will forget that they are there.
*Although I need for objects to remain in my visual field in order to remember them, I quickly become overwhelmed when there is too much information in my visual field for me to process. This creates a very difficult Catch-22 situation. I need to see objects to remember they are there, but being able to see them all overwhelms me.
I can relate to what you wrote. This Catch-22 ^^^ in particular is very frustrating. What I've found helpful is trying to organize things without shutting them away, by creating more visible space and trying to organize things into groups via:
- Taking the doors off of cupboards
- Using canisters and cups for things like kitchen utensils and writing utensils, instead of drawers
- Arranging things spatially so that things that are used together are always in close physical and visual proximity to one another (e.g. the frying pan lives on one side of the stove, right beside the canister with the spatula and cooking spoons on the counter, and the canister with the spatula is right beside the cooking oil)
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Organizing my stuff into groups and trying to create visual-spatial distinctions between groupings -- distinctions that my brain registers a bit more easily...in a similar way to seeing different shapes, or the difference between light and shadow (e.g. leaving spaces, stacking regularly-shaped items horizontally vs. vertically, or creating "tall" and "short" groupings...if that makes any sense) -- helps me some with the visual overload.
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27 Apr 2013, 12:16 pm
