Is your bed cluttered?

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Wow, i must be pretty bad then :/ i've been cluttering my bed for a while since as a kid. I used to have soft toys littered at the foot of my bed, then books were added to the equalsion. Then as a teenager it became books, bags, clothes, magazines, CDs, videos. My parents would chuckle at this quirk and ask how in earth could i sleep like that. It took up 3/4 of my bed. I then started to add empty fizzy bottles to it too, it was like a little nest. I slept on the edge a lot.

But i didn't have to share with anyone, so it was fine. But i'm 28 now and i still clutter the bed, which drives my fiancee barmy! I try and limit it to just my side of the bed, but normally i have clothes, hangers, coats, wires, pillows, cushions, books, touletres and post at the bottom of the bed. And i have a pile of stuff on the floor on my side of the bed. Tbh i can't even tell you what's there, it's a bit of everything. I don't even know why i do it, a lot of the time i'm not actually aware i'm doing it. I guess it's a nest like comfort having things surround you, bit like a security blanket, just a security blanket of stuff.

It is when I'm not sleeping because I have my computer and my stuffed unicorn pillow and a book (sometimes books) and a patchka (a string or scrunched up end of a piece of paper dangling) to stim with and a cup of tea resting on my computer. When I go to sleep I remove all these things from my bed so I have room to toss and turn.

As a child I had piles of books and assorted toys and I loved lots of blankets. Since I grew up I have just had a bed with pillows and duvet but because it has been very cold here recently we have put a heavy blanket on top which i find really comforting and then there is my book, iPad, cushions ......

I usually sleep on a beanbag because it's much more comfortable. It's not a proper bed. The carpet around it and beyone is full of junk - many books, old empty packets of potato chips etc, junk mail, random plastic bags, empty tissue boxes, a suitcase etc. There's very little room for walking. I only make sure there's nothing that would attract pests such as cockroaches, ants, mold etc. But because of this junk piling up and filling the room, I haven't been able to vacuum the room for a few years. When I think about it, I feel disgusted.

I sometimes have had a cluttered bed. I don't think it's an ASD thing though, since I have seen NTs with cluttered beds. My bed doesn't get exactly cluttered. I just sometimes dump things on my bed when I think I'm finished with them but am not sure if I'm going to want them again later. I put my scarf on my bed when I come in if it's quite warm outside, and sometimes if I've been drawing a picture but haven't finished, I'd put the picture on my bed so I can remember to come back to it later, and if I don't, I either put it away in the drawer or just dump it on my chair ready for the next day. Otherwise, no, my bed isn't usually ever cluttered.

I make my bed the second I get up. I just cannot bare to see it unmade. I have 4 teddies on my bed, and two cushions, what I keep neat. And a fro at the bottom of my bed to keep the covers on.

And here I was, thinking I was being very autistic when saying 'a bed is for sleeping'. Never thought of it the other way. I could never have stuff on my bed. That's not where stuff belongs.

I don't think having a messy bed is something autistic.

But if everybody here has a messy bed, maybe it is?

I have 2 teddies on my bed (1 is a tattered but very sentimental bear), which I keep by my pillow. I have 3 cushions, one is for the teddies to lean against, one is to use to prop myself up a bit when watching DVDs, and the other is decoration (which gets in the way but I'm unsure where else to put it).

I have a blanket at the bottom of the bed, with each end tucked underneath the mattress to keep my bed sheets in place. I always make my bed every single morning without fail, which literally takes less than 3 seconds because the blanket at the bottom of the bed stops the sheets from scrunching up.

I love to have at least one teddy on my bed, but I know a lot of women that do, so I don't consider that unusual.

I hate sleeping with anything on my bed besides the mattress, sheets, comforter, and pillows, so I just remove whatever's on my bed and put it on the floor. When I sleep, I want the whole bed to myself.

It's fairly cluttered with pillows (5) and it used to be cluttered with plushies, but now there's only one plushie there, a turtle. Sometimes when I read in bed, I just put my book under my pillow before I go to sleep. At times I've also forgotten various items in bed, like lotions for my dry skin, Eurax for my itchy skin, or hydrocortison for eczema, or sometimes a piece of clothing like a sock or a T-shirt.

Just the standard stuff plus my hug pillow. Having something like a book or whatever in bed with me would drive me nutz.

I just have a blanket, pillows, and a few stuffed animals on mine.

My bed is covered in stuffed animals.

Other than that, no. Everything has to be put away on my dresser or in a drawer before I go to bed... So, my dresser and drawers are pretty cluttered!

I toss and turn a lot, so I would just knock everything off the bed in my sleep.