Do you like sitting/lying on the floor?

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I prefer sitting on the floor, even if there's a chair.

I really like lying on the floor. It is comfortable and relaxing.

Yes, I do. It seems cozier.

I like both, with a preference for lying.

No, I like doing it on beds or couches or chairs.

I've always preferred the floor, but I've become so decrepit that I usually resort to the sofa now anyway.

But I have certain incompatibilities with chair shaped objects. I almost always step up onto the sofa and then turn around and flop down. I find it near impossible to sit in the normal position with a fold at the knees and at the waist. Instead I sit either cross legged or stretched out along the sofa or in some other untidy position. At work I have to sit in a normal desk chair, but I often sit on one foot or weirdly slouched otherwise I feel as though I'll fall off. Does anyone else experience this sort of thing?

Yes to both. Chairs baffle me.

Lying, totally...I'm kinda well-known for it.

I can't sit comfortably on the floor though...I'll save that for seats.

I remember that I did sometimes sit on the floor when young, and I also lay down on it, but not as much as sitting. I eventually out grew it. I seem to remember that this happened in my early twenties. Now that I am in my 50s I won't because of really bad knees. I did have to sometimes when I had dogs, so that I could take care of some of their needs. Sometimes they needed their nails clipped, or stuff picked up on walks removed from between their toes. Once, I was walking our border lab cross and noticed he was walking like he had something between his paws, as he had had on many other occasions, but for once, I couldn't tell by his gait, which paw it was. For the heck of it, I checked all four paws. Yes! He had stuff in all 4 paws! He was always good about letting me fix it, because he knew I was fixing it. Unfortunately, the last few times I was on the floor with him were to feed him bits of food off my fingers several times a day for his last few days of life, and then the last time I sat on the floor with him was at the vets, when we had to have him put to sleep. He had inoperable terminal cancer.

Due to health problems of my own, sitting or lying on the floor is too hard for me to do, and it is also no longer possible for me to have a pet, but I sometimes pet the neighbor dogs and cats.

It depends on the temperature and the texture of the floor. I severally dislike the sensation of cold and am highly uncomfortable sitting on a stone floor when it is cold. I also am not a large fan of floors with uneven tiles. However, I do not mind stone that is not cold or uneven (my bedroom floor is marble, actually, and I have no problems sitting on it), carpet, wood (most of the time), or any other flooring materials. I can sit on the floor for rather extended periods of time and be perfectly comfortable; as far as lying and sleeping goes, however, I would rather be on a surface that I can "burrow into" and wrap myself in blankets, such as a bed or a couch.

Sitting, when I have something to prop up against. I was lectured in church, the usher saying it was a safety concern.
If there's something good on the living room TV I'll grab a pillow out of my room and lay there watching. Occasionally I sleep on the floor, makes my back feel good, and I recently discovered it blocks out a good majority of intrusive sounds

Yes I do, or at least I am not bothered by it so long as the floor is clean. I even have my bed on the floor, or at least the mattress and box spring. I don't like sleeping high off the floor and find it much more comfortable not to use a bed frame.

I like sitting on the floor (on the carpet, more precisely). It feels good to me, though my body can get sore after a while. When I was younger I used to sit on the floor for hours tinkering with my stuff (tape decks, tuners, amplifiers etc.), I have never had a workbench.

Up to my teens I was the only one in my family who watched TV lying on the floor, when all the seats were taken.

When I sit in a chair at home I usually find it much more comfortable if I put my feet on it (curled up in it) or on the table.

I sleep on the floor. And yes I have a bed.

It means a lot to find other people that do the things I do which no one I know seems to do.
My parents hate it when I lie on the floor, they partcularly hate it when I do it in the kitchen or when I lie on the dog bed with the dogs. I don't tend to do it when I am ok (I think it's more that being around people stresses me out enough to have to go up a level in self soothing and stimming behaviours). I tend to do it when I am really stressed or when I have to be 'social' with people, I then tend to sit on the floor. When I was little I used to sometimes move myself out of bed into a nest of toys on the floor which made me feel better and I'd go to sleep there.

Does anyone else lie under things when they are in total meltdown? I like to lie under tables and I always want to lie under chairs when I am very very stressed in meetings (I've so far managed to not do it yet). I often lie under tables when I am scared and frightened or when I am very sad...I'm sure it looks odd but it's the only thing that works. I like it because people can't see me and the cool floor makes it feel better.

I just wonder whether this really is an 'Aspie thing' or if others do that as well