Did you line up your toys as a young child?

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I lined my matchbox cars (as well as all of my toys) up as a child. If anyone ruined the line or moved them or came to try and play with me, I would go nuts. I can't remember doing this, My parents are the ones who told me that I did this, so I'm not sure what order I aligned them in.

I used to get the matchbox cars that came white and you painted them with textas. When there were cars that weren't available to paint I bought ordinary cars and liquid papered them so I could paint them. haha.

yeah... i lined up ALL of my hotwheels/matchbox/nascar diecasts...on the kitchen table AND the living room floor!!

That pretty much sums up how I played with toys as a kid. My room was always a mess, too. I can't quite understand how I could stand such a cluttered up room, but still be so obsessed with organizing. When I was little I would spend hours organizing all of my barbie clothes, and accessories, and only a few minutes playing with them. I had a very specific rules as to how things would go, and was surprised when I found out other girls didn't like to play that way.

As an adult, I still line things up by my "rules", but now they're adult things like plates, cups, towels, shoes. clothes, ect... I really don't mind that I'm the only one doing the housework, because I like to do certain things, and have things a certain way.

I also remember that my (suspected) AS brother used to spend hours, upon hours lining up books all through the house making very neat lines for his toy cars to drive on. I would find great joy in quietly sneaking up, and knocking them out of place, and running off as he threw a HUGE tantrum.

Yet another trait I had. I lined my Ninja Turtles up in a straight line when I was done playing with them in the order I got them in. I still do that with somethings.

Ditto.

I used to line up my dolls ontop of my dresser, and my toy cars along the edge of the mat in the lounge. I also used to group my toy cars according to colour and/or type and size. Although I used to do other things with them as well, so my family weren't concerned. My mother had an idea that I was either really smart or a perfectionist...which to this day, I am a perfectionist in some ways!

I always lined up my stuffed animals in order of size... in my bed. They would take up about 70% of the width, and I would sleep beside them, on the edge of the bed, so I was lined up with them.

No. If I did anything differently it wasn't noticeable to myself or others. We played what we enjoyed, nobody commented.

If anything I think I do that more as an adult, but I don't do it compulsively, only if there's room for it (i.e. it won't look weird to anybody).

With me it was always books. I'd routinely walk alongside all the bookshelves in my house (and anywhere else with lots of books), and either push them all back so that their front edges were pushed against the wall, or pulled them all forward so that their spines were all aligned (more difficult) no matter how different the book-sizes were.

I held a Library Assistant post for about a year back in 1999(?) and I couldn't have been happier!

I still love to line things up next to each other in a way that makes them all start/finish precisely at the same level. Pens, playing cards, sugar cubes, figurines, anything that's small enough to be lined up on a desk/shelf easily

My room always was a total mess when i was younger.
My parents always tried to get me to organize the stuff in my room.
But too little avail as i simply didn't care about things being orderly.
Sure i liked it better than being a mess, but could never get myself to do anything about it.
This could proberbly partially be due to that i don't hold much value to most material things.
The value of my stuff is what it would cost in a shop.
If someone would take all the stuff in my room and give money for it that would be fine.
Wel... except my antique disabled machinepistol from ww2, because that isn't replacable.

These days i've slowly gotten more disciplined with keeping things orderly.
I've started putting my dvd's in the right boxes and not lying around anymore and such.
But i guess this tels something about us people with aspergers.
We either are totally commited, or we don't care at all.

The only thing I ever lined up when I was little was coins. My toys were always a huge mess. lol

I used to line up action figures and shoot 'em with a BB gun. JK

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In some order, yes.

I lined up my hotwheels... seperated them out by different type as well (i had a bunch of the same ones)

I lined my walls with stuff, I still do. I used to rearrange the furniture in my room as well.

my stuffed animals are lined up in the back seat of my car (hey what do you do with them when you grow up)

I used to do the thing with the cards, and rearrange my crayons in color order. I also had a collection of IBC root beer bottles (that my mom made me trash).

when I have a desk, or am at a restaurant I line up the stuff on the table in patterns

I kept my room rather neat as a child (as opposed to now!! !). I also took very good collection of matchbox cars, and hated to play with them, since they could get scratched. I kept them in a carry-case, but didn't order or sort them, or any of my other toys that I recall. I did have to dismantle each and every one of my Lego's before putting them away.

Yep, and still do actually haha. My oldest brother who was completely NT would line up his stuff too though, especially his crayons.

Me too! I still can't put away a deck of cards without making sure they are all there and in order. I put them in Hearts order though (clubs A-K, diamonds A-K, spades A-K, hearts A-K, then jokers). I do it with cards for UNO and other games, too, in order of number or color or whatever the game offers.