Neat or Messy?

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i'm room always looks a like a bomb hit it, but i know that most aspies like everything very neat and organized

I like to organise my own stuff, but the kids keep messing it up. anything else just goes missing and I find it impossible to keep on top of, so I just look for stuff under piles of paperwork/kids toys/hidden in the kids rooms when I need them..... plus I find a little clutter comforting.

Dunc

I prefer stuff to be tidy and organised- but when I have free time I don't really want to spend it doing housework. I would keep my own stuff tidy if it wasn't for the kids messing everything up all the time.

Even though things can be very untidy I usually know where something is- unless someone else has moved it.


Mel

My flat is....well, disorganised ... I subscribe to the belief that if you can see it on the floor, why then it aint lost!
(Incidently I live alone so I dont have to worry about bothering anyone else)

For me there is a difference between wanting everything neat and actually being able to organize everything.

My room is VERY untidy. It looks like a mini tornado has gone through it. Organisation has never been a skill of mine. If I clean it, it looks great and I feel better, but within a week it's messy again.

It isn't dirty or gross, i'm not a dirty person. Most of the junk is papers from my course, art, art supplies, and belongings.

For me it's a conbination of lack of organisational skills, procrastination, and not finishing things I start.

Neat and orgainsed I like, but my room never, ever is.. what I want as to what I actually do.

Yes!

I'm kind of a weird neat freak. My "laboratory" is a complete hole. Way too much stuff left out, things taken apart and awaiting the trash bin or proper storage.

On the other hand, I keep all my CD sorted and printed little labels for the cabinet. My electronics components are likewise stored. My closet is sorted by color and all the shirts have to fact the same way. The silverware drawer has to be organized. I love organizing things on a small scale.

My wife's exactly the opposite. With her, if it's visible, it has to be simple and neat, but closets, files, etc., forget it! Out of sight, out of mind!

So between the two of us, most of the house is very neat and organized, but there are some spaces that are off limits to her!

being organized is something I am really terrible at.

My room is an obstacle course worthy of double dare.

The odd thing about it all is that I can find things better when everything is a mess vs when I actually try to tidy up.

I voted for "I have everything really organized and neat". I like when objects are in their predefined places. This way I know where they are. I am quite absentminded and naturally prone to misplace things. I don't like this and therefore always make sure that things are where they belong. As a result my home is most of the time quite tidy.

Neat isn't something I do very well. Some people have an "out of sight out of mind" mentallity, I take it to an even greater extreme "out of mind out of mind" mentallity Meaning that I usually am thinking about some other thing to remeber to pick things up.... If I focus on cleaning I usually can get good results.

I am not too disorganized though... I usually can remembre where I "plop" things, just have to dig in some piles of papers to find anything.

I have the same problems too. It seems like I make a mental note of where I put stuff in the first place, but if I move it I never remeber where I put it. I think what happens is that if I am in organization mode, I am more concerned about moving things and making everything look neat. Instead of actively making mental notes of where everything is... Its even worse if someone else trys to organize my stuff for me... I hate that.

Another thing I hate is when I misplace something, like keys, wallets, mail and then people tell me if I was a bit more organized I'd be able to find it. When it doesn't happen to me any more then other people. And when I do lose stuff it's not because of clutter. but because something during the day disturbed my usual process and so I don't place my things in my usual way. It really gets me frustrated, and I normally never get frustrated...

My video games/dvds/computer parts are organized. I can't stand having cds/games to be out of their cases, and it annoys me when other people does this to my items. My media shelf is in sharp contrast to the rest of my enviroment...

I'm pretty messy. I like being organised and I like knowing where everything is, but I just can't seem to maintain it. I am getting better about it, though. Cleaning my room is one of my least favourite things to do and unfortunately, cleaning it is probably the thing my mum complains about the most. I can organise myself if I take the time to do it, but it takes me a lot longer than most people.

i'm with you, glenn and astro! utterly pedantic about organisation of music, books, etc., everything ordered according to my own dewey decimal system. organised chaos (sort of) everywhere else. and i am unable to do housework - i have an anti-housework gene so i CAN'T do it! runs in the females on my mum's side of the family. my grandmother never did housework if there another breathing human being who could do it for her, and my dad used to do all the housework before he died, so my mum didn't really do any either. see? perfect excuse. anyway, Quentin Crisp says that you can only have so much dust and then no more, so what's the point in worrying about it if it ain't going to get any worse? and the stupid stuff only comes back after you've dusted. pointless.

i don't do this aspie thing of uncluttered, simple space, though. my house is like a treasure trove...

I'm very organised but somehow, my stuff never seems to be

I have everything really organized and neat. Mess and no organization really annoys me.

My bedroom is just Chaos.

I like tidiness and order, but I am too tired to bother half the time, and my hubby only drops stuff all over the place anyway, and gets upset when I ask him to clear it up.