I was wondering if this sounded Aspie...

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I was watching a documentary, and they had an aspie boy trying to label videotapes, and if they were not perfect, he would get mad or even destroy them. It used to remind me what I did with my pokemon cards and my field guides when I was a kid (I don't do these things anymore nowadays, except underline the species names)

Pokemon cards: They had to be ordered first by element... but the first element in the plastic folders had to be the one that I had the most total cards for, then it would go down in that order. Than the individual cards had to be ordered first by rarity, than in the rarity groups, ordered by how many of them I owned. If I owned the same amount of two different cards, then it would be alphabetical. Then at the end were the colorless cards, than the items, then the energy cards. If I bought more cards and it disrupted the order, all cards had to come out of the folders, recounted, etc... this took hours.

Field Guides: Ordered by species contained in taxonomic order on the shelf. In the field guides, the species I have seen had to be underlined, a dashed line means that I saw the species in captivity, question mark means might have seen species.

Aspie-ish or sort of OCD? If it was OCD, then it was the only time I displayed that behavior, seriously I was dxed with OCD at one point, but when the psychatrist questioned me again, he gave up on the dx for me. (even though there is this one power strip I use that scares me so I have to turn it off at night or I can't sleep)

Oh yeah, I've been told that my quest to identify everything in nature and to list it (especially birds) and to do everything birds was either OCD or aspieish too... I dunno.

Probably. The way it was explained to me is that aspies appreciate order in all things, we therefore make great librarians.

Just to my right I have a collection of 700 or so movies on DVD, these are sorted first by type (thriller, comedy, sci-fi etc) and then by name in strict alphabetical order. My limited library is the same, subject and then book title, and I was quite upset once when I realised that there was not enough space for one particular subject so three titles had to go on the next shelf down.

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I think it does I've always spent my lunch breaks at school volunteering/reading in the library. I hadn't really thought about it as a characteristic of Asperger's but I love sorting alphabetically and reorganizing the nonfiction.... ...ahem.
Plus I'm going to help the College Advisor for my high school sort all of her books this summer
My personal book collection is, of course, alphabetical. Sometimes I switch it to sorting by size, spine color, the main character's last name..

That's what my non-aspie does. In school we used to have to scrape him off the floor everytime a new concept or skill was introduced because if he couldn't do it right the first time he wasn't doing it. To be fair at that time we also thought he was PDD-NOS because he acted an awful lot like it, didn't speak till 5, and a bunch of other things. He outgrew those things so apparently it's not a spectrum thing, but it sure did look like it.

My two Aspies are a lot more hit or miss with stuff like that. They'd probably just shove the tapes under their beds and forget the labels. That could be the ADHD.