Is anyone else extremely messy and disorganized?

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I'm extremely organised and pretty tidy. I need to know where everything is at all times. I needed my school reports (yes, I have every single one of them from 7 to 17) the other day and knew that they were in a Converse shoe box in the attic even though I hadn't touched them in over 15 years or so. I used to do a trick with the kids where they would point to a cd in my collection (over 1000) and I would be able to tell them which one it was, based purely on its location in the shelves. If something gets moved to a different place I throw a s**tfit.

I even have two whiteboards and a large calendar for telling me what I should be doing each day.

Yes. I've been working to become more organized and clean, but then I got depressed again, so everything fell back into disarray.

It seems to me that whenever someone posts a thread on organising, 80 percent come out as highly organised and the rest super organised. I'm in the super organised category.

I'm curious if those in the super organised category have developed other highly adaptive skills and if such adaptive ways made it difficult for them to be diagnosed?

This has been my experience. My greatest triumph- my highly Adaptive Skills, proved the greatest impediment in being diagnosed and getting the help I so desperately needed to sustain staying afloat in this world.

Yup, sadly i am guilty! ... I can be a bit of a hoarder as i see a use for everything then one day after a few years will throw it all out without thinking and then ironically a few days later i will need some of the things that have not been used in years! The paradox! ... My bedroom can be a bit of a mess but this is my zone and i dont let anyone in like a lion defending it patch. Enter at your own risk! I do know where everything is despite it being an artistic tip! hehe. I make sure as best i can the rest of the house is clean though. Ironically in the past if i went to someones house and there was a gathering of people i would clean constantly as a way i suppose to avoid people or talk and work without uncomfortable eye contact or body language. I dont mind taking control of a BBQ but i find people do want to talk profusely so i have thus realized that being the one to do the washing up is something that no-one wants to do ( unless in the same mind frame as myself, but tough i was here first ) So being at a gathering i will often be found in the kitchen by the sink and people rarely come over and talk as i think they feel they may feel the need to offer to help and lets be honest no-one really likes to do the dishes so realise this is my safe place! lol
Living with house mates is ok, but am frustrated when they use something and put it elsewhere, this does fluster me as in my minds eye i have what i plan almost down to the second and when i cant find something that should be there it totally puts me out of sync.... Grrrrr

I'm kind of an oxymoron, main problem is that sometimes I'm so fixated on one thing that I mentally neglect everything else (e.x. messy room, hygiene, etc) until it becomes so messy I can't stand it anymore.

So it's less of overall 'disorganization' and more of just attention being overly-focused on one thing (e.x beating a video game) to the exclusion of everything else. If I'm playing a video game I might be hyper-organized about how I play the game, while letting everything else go to hell.

I think AS people are some times perceived as lazy or disorganized if they neglect their cleaning or hygiene, but it's less because they're genuinely lazy and more because they focus on one thing over everything else (like the painter Michelango, who may have had a form of autism, and reportedly rarely bathed or changed his clothes).

A lot of times, I can't even find my homework or my notes because my backpack is so messy, and sometimes I accidentally tear my paper because it gets stuck in with my other books and notes.