Room Scoping

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I was looking through all of my cluttered shelves and other storage areas when I kept spotting a familiar, green thing. I kept finding it all over my room, and I even found it in clean clothes in my dresser.
It was cold hard cash.
I have no idea why, but my money is always scattered around. Not only did I collect every single cent I found, but I counted it.
I managed to find about $61.31.
Anyone else have their money or something else scattered?

When I was a kid my room used to look like some post apocalyptic disaster movie scene - with a just navigable path from the door to my bed. My mom would lose it every few months and I'd have to clean it up else get flogged.

Nowadays, at work any area I'm working within ten minutes looks like a bomb went off in my toolbox - ie. it's entire contents scattered over a wide surrounding area. When I reach the point where it's taking about 5 minutes to find each tool, then I tidy up and put everything away nicely - ten minutes later it's all a mess again.

My computer desk is the same, and I don't use the wardrobe or clothes drawers in the bedroom - all my clothes live in a plastic clothes basket, or are variously hung on doorknobs, backs of chairs, coathooks and the towel racks in the bathroom. Every now and then when my wife is doing laundry she makes me check them all to work out which are dirty or clean (I should point out that I quite often do the laundry too). The other day I mentioned to my wife that I hadn't seen my favorite shirt for about 2 months - she led me to the wardrobe and opened the door and there was my shirt. She had this strange look on her face...

I'm very organised but it doesn't always look that way to other people. My things might look like they're in a mess but everything is where I put it for a reason.

I keep my money organized. I keep important documents organized. I keep my computer stuff organized. Everything else is a mess though.

I find organization extremely difficult.

I don't know, I suppose I'm organized. I mean, I can find what I'm looking for most of the time, but if any one else were looking about all they would see is seemingly random piles of stuff. Some areas such as my work bench are usually completely covered in junk, I can't be creative at a clean table. Though, it's not really messy, it's just not organized the way most people would organized.

However, all of that is different when it comes to the kitchen, my kitchen is always clutter free and carefully arranged with everything neat, clean, lined upped and in it's place. My bathroom is the same way.

I'm not sure why those two rooms are different then everywhere else.

I am very organized. My room is always extremely clean. Everything on my computer is very organized too. I have a million folders and sub-folders for a ton of different things, so I can always be sure that I'll be able to find what I want if I want it.

From what I've seen, many people with AS aren't very organized, and according to my psychiatrist that's one of the main reasons why I can't have AS, since I'm so organized.

I feel inclined to comment as having OCD does NOT make one organized or a perfectionist. In fact people with OCD are more often disorganized. Neat freaks generally do not have OCD. They are compulsively neat, there is a difference.

When people with OCD need objects to be aligned a certain way or something to be in a certain place, it is not about neatness or organization. It's about a feeling of ill ease or fear which is based in not logic or necessity but white matter abnormalities and other anomalies in their brain structure.

I'd say I'm 1/3 organized. I like to put things away in their proper places but very often fail to do so. I even failed to think up a new arrangement for the kitchen stuff (dishes, plates, cutlery etc.) to move them from their temporary place to the final. It took months for me to do so, I was so accustomed with their "temporary" places...

I also have a tendency to clutter my rooms, and I can and want to find everything I drop anywhere exactly on the same spot where I've previously placed it. I remember complaining to my grandma thanklessly who was a clean-freak whenever she moved my stuff a little during her cleanings.

Semi-order is the clutter that remains virtually untouched for weeks or months. I can almost find everything in it.

i dont really take any effort to clean or organize my room untill i have spawned a new life-form; but i do know where everything is.
i can usually find whatever i need within a minute or two, even if others seem to think a bomb exploded...

Organized. hmmmmm . . . orrrrrr - an - iiiiiz - ed . . . that word - I think I've heard it before, but NEVER has it been used in describing me!