Post by Red Polekatt EntityDevin Garland
Post by KerryI have always had problems keeping my house in any kind of order. In
fact at the moment it is quite horrible. I have a hard time putting
things back together again, but I do it, especially when I am expecting
company...visitor tidy, you know.
Kerry
Post by HGJPost by Tim BrueningI have trouble with laziness. I sometimes let my room get dirty,
with
Post by HGJPost by Tim Brueningnewspapers piled on my floor. This makes Ernie so mad that he can't
see
Post by HGJPost by Tim Brueningstraight. The same thing sometimes happens in the kitchen. Do you
have
Post by HGJPost by Tim Brueningproblems with laziness?
Why does Ernie care how your room looks? He's not the one using the
room, is he?
I often have problems with keeping my home tidy. I'm not sure how much
of that is due to laziness. I think it would be easier for me to keep
my belongings in order if I had a bigger home.
My parents are always on my back about keeping my room in some kind of
organized upkeep. But no matter how much I try at it, it always seems to
settle back into a state of messiness again... I've actually come up with a
theory of a sort: the minds of NTs typically process concepts by taking all
of the bits of information and assembling them into a whole form, whereas it
is the opposite with autistic minds such as mine (we tend to take concepts
and break them down into parts). According to the theory, the same is true
for organization. We (autistics) don't seem to be inclined to re-assemble
things when they are already subdivided, mentally or physically. Cleaning up
and reorganizing can be seen as doing just that, and since we enjoy
dissassembling ideas into seperate parts, this could also be what causes our
living spaces to become messy again so quickly. I can identify with having
organizational difficulties, but at the same time I actually think a lot of
my stuff is easier to find when it is in disarray... Just a theory
I have trouble keeping things tidy, too. I love organizing things, but
the thing is that I tend to want to organize as I clean, which means
that it all gets messier before it gets clean... and I also tend to stop
after a bit, which means nothing is ever totally sorted out.
I used to think that if I just had enough storage containers, life would
be easier, but no.
I think sometimes that if I would just put things where they belong when
I'm done with them, that would work, but it doesn't because I keep them
out if I expect to use them again soon. (And then I don't and it all
just sits there until I get around to doing something with it.)
My whole family is like this, except the oldest of my brothers, who is a
neat-freak and infinitely more organized than any of us. We're *all*
packrats, though (Mom less so than the rest of us), which of course
makes organization and tidiness more difficult...
I think it's probably a combination of EF problems, laziness,
disorganization, hyperorganization, and lack of storage space - at least
with me.
-Janna
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