Organizing Things

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I know a lot of people here talk about how they like to have things organized and lined up, but I have the opposite problem. When faced with a group of objects, like stuff I have stacked in a pile to get to later, I can never figure out how to deal with it. I tend to just move the items around. I tried to read all kinds of books on organization but they don't seem to help. Is there some Aspie way to look at this problem to be better at it? How do I see what goes where?

This is what happens to me I'll want things orginzised but am unable to orginzise or keep the stuff orginzised my poor grandmother has spent so much time trying to clean our house and make it organized but unfortunately it's very hard for me to keep it organized and I always end up making a big mess that I can't even clean up because when I try it doesn't turn out right. Plus my papers books etc. and messy and ripped yeah but I have problems with preventing myself from ripping or creasing the paper by accident and I try to hold them or even put a hole through my paper while writing on the coloring I end breaking crayons and other writing utensils by accident.

I don't know what the Aspie way of helping with this is but I look at it like I have to have my stuff organized or I'll get anxious. It doesn't have to be perfect (my non-fiction books have no specific order to them just vaguely arranged by subject matter and I did manage to get my fiction books by author which was an easier task given I have fewer fiction books than non-fiction.) I think it's just something that one has an internal drive pushing them to do it. I've had many a day where I'll reorganized my DVDs/games and or books on a pure whim. Same thing with my tv desk.

wozeree,
that might be an executive dysfunction problem.

Hey KoR!
I think you might be right. It's not just a small thing with me, it's pretty bad. I can't find things, things fall and break. Yikes.

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I can't get organized either. I try but fail. I can't find anything.
I actually have a closet full of folders full of old paperwork, filed away in random, haphazard order that makes no sense because I just stash things when I don't know what to do with them.
Most of it is junk that should have been thrown away. I mean old bills, useless documents, empty envelops, things that I've just stashed.
Even when I think I'm filing something right, I go back to look for it later and it's gone or all over the place and I can find everything except the thing I'm looking for.