Anyone else really enjoy filling out forms?

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Hmmm... I always have loved filling out forms, even when I was a little kid living with my mom. I used to take the credit applications and order forms from her catalogs and fill them out with fictional names & stuff.

Also I kind of like taking those tests with the computerized answer sheet where you fill in the little bubbles. I actually kind of enjoy taking tests in general - unless I don't know the answers - which usually doesn't come up. I'm a good tester.

I still get a little kick out of it. I just opened some mail and I have lots of forms to fill out! Better yet, some of them are going to be very lucrative. (Mileage reimbursement from a former employer and the like.)

You know what I have actually done, is to re-do forms that are clearly ancient, twentieth-generation copies, all wavery on the page and the lines aren't straight and something is glaringly WRONG with a little combination of the letters i, t and s and an apostrophe - which you'd think, people would try extra hard to avoid mistakes when they are making up a form that potentially could last for years....

Of course when I started my last job, which was really all about filling out forms, I re-designed all the forms for my office. They were basically the old forms exactly, except no formatting errors or misspellings or badly-centered, you name it, all the mistakes that were there. My forms were gorgeous, works of art.

OK that's one thing, but I also redesigned a couple of forms that our main office was using that were literally typed on a typewriter and the first run was probably printed on a ditto machine. (I may be the only one reading this who's old enough to know what a ditto machine is - or to have been hanging around the office chatting up the secretary, when the other kids were out for recess.) and distributed by dinosaurs! ::joke:: (my kids can't tell when I'm joking IRL either so no prob here)

And the forms looked like crap. So I just did them over until they were perfect and then made my reports on them and sent them back (with a few blanks of my new version of their form - which was very pretty! ...and theirs was illegible in spots!)

Always wondered why they didn't thank me, start using the new ones, give me a bonus and a promotion.

Well now that I'm at WP, I don't wonder anymore. I guess I was overstepping something or whatever. Like nobody's supposed to mention, oh, I can barely read your form and there isn't room to fill in my entire address in this tiny box and .... it was last revised in 1997 ... maybe it's like when my mother walks in my house, and immediately starts looking for something, anything (!) to clean ~~~ that drives me crazy.

Oh, did I digress? I think this post is long enough..... trying to stay on topic here (and I do take ADD meds......)

Oh but this is on topic - my daughter loves forms and tests as well, and she's as close to neurotypical as one of my relatives could possibly be. The boys groan at having to write anything (the older was diagnosed with dysgraphia).

> (I may be the only one reading this who's old enough to know what a ditto machine is - or to have been hanging around the office chatting up the secretary, when the other kids were out for recess.)

Gestetner (sp) machine with the purple ink? I remember those.

No, I don't like filling out forms. It's a mindless task. I am shocked to see errors in other places, though, where most people are blase', e.g. the powerpoint sheets we had to buy as teacher's notes for my university class. After teaching 20 years, you'd think she'd fix up her errors each term. Sheesh.

Filling out sheets can be rewarding when you get something you want... but filling them out for fun was a bit too much asked for me with my lousy handwriting. Okay, it was also nice when it was still readable at the end.

I also made some forms at work. Some are even used by other departments now (yay). It was a new form and people were enthusiastic about the principle, they were not applauding the form however.

AAAAAAAAHHHHH filling out forms is in my "hate" list. If I never fill out another form again I will be very happy. But that's not going to happen. The older I get, the more forms I have to fill out. And this seems to increase with age.

I like to fill out forms when I do not have to fill out the forms.

You might have had a good career as a tax preparer.

I screw up the simplest things on forms, like putting my name where the address is supposed to be. Forms with options like -always,sometimes,occasionally and never- make me crazy. I remember mimeograph sheets when I was young. I loved the way they smelled.

I like them, but I find it very hard not to elaborate on every point (for example, if I were to take the aspie quiz on paper, every line would have a detailed explanation and set of caveats scrawled up the side of the page...)

I really like filling out forms and I love filling out surveys aswell.

Like American's Got Talent, that's 3 no's and why?

• 1) It is so long for me.... I would try to rush so I can go on to my obsession.
• 2) I don't understand most of them, its like trying to understand another language.
• 3) Its like one of my big fears, incase I get it wrong, I get scared people would get angry at me...
  

And that's how I got to the point of not like being able to fill in forms.... even if it was a complaint, I still wouldn't cope with that.

I never got enough of them, really. Used to be a great hobby of mine, and I still may find it hard to resist.

This forum is weird - I'm not used to being so normal...

I don't like forms. I don't really like to write because first of all I squeeze too tightly and my hand cramps, and second, I really like having a fine point pen (I never remember to bring my own).

I also have very poor spelling.

Oh, and the forms never seem to have enough space for me to write....so I have stuff written in the margins.

In all the forms are returned looking like a child filled them out.

Ditto machine! (ThermoFax)

Forms are a form of psychological torture! The very sight of a stack of government paperwork sends me straight into meltdown territory. I'm always terrified I'll enter something wrong and get fined some huge amount I can't pay, or lose my disability, or be sent an even bigger stack of forms to fill out to explain why I didn't give the correct responses on the first ones...I can never do paperwork when its first handed to me. I have to set it aside and ignore it for a week or two, then gradually circle it for awhile as it sits there on the counter smirking at me with it's evil blanks and columns and check boxes. Gaaah! Just thinking about it is making me hypertense...gotta stim...

How I miss that smell! I remember sitting in the principal's office on my first day of school, and smelling that lovely, citrus-like aroma.

Same here! I've got a thick pile of papers to fill out for Physical Therapy, complete with diagrams of the human body, where I am supposed to indicate where my pain is. How-I-hate-these-forms!

When I was a kid I liked filling out the deposit forms when my mum and I went to the bank. One teller even stamped them for me with a smiley face stamp every time I went there. Of course this was for no purpose but I still liked doing it.

I still like filling out forms but I don't know why. Most people complain about having to do it. Maybe it's just that I've got too much free time.