Who Doesn't like Routine/Sameness

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Who here doesn't like routine and everything being kept the same. Personalty it weirds me out if everything is
the same, it's like I loose my sense of time. It's like I need things to change to know everything isn't frozen.

I don't like big unexpected changes but I look forward to things like moving house as long as I expect it a few
weeks out.

I wouldn't say I hate it., but at times I will grow bored. Being unemployed and not in college, I'm not left with much a choice of what to do. Attended a job skills class, but that was only for three weeks. Am volunteering now, but that's only one day a week and is bound to also fall into routine. I seem to get depressed after a while of nothing changing, or rather progressing.

i neither seek nor avoid change. the main changes at work are extra paperwork. i don't like that. novelty is best in a new play, song ,or movie.

Depends on how bored I am. If I'm feeling anxious, however, I like things to be the same.

Time is simultaneous, there is no change.

Need it. Can't live without it. Thought I was ok but then I didn't get to watch my two favourite shows. Still haven't gotten a chance to watch Doctor Who.

Change does happen but I think that's when I challenge myself. I get used to it and stuck in the new routine eventually.

Id things aren't the same, i get really anxious and irritable.

Like - no. Need - yes.

I require few routines for emotional security (I'd say none but I assume that isn't true) but I need them because of the autism whether I like them or not.

In order to pick up, understand and cope what's going around me, my mind requires things to be as expected. Unexpected events act as if they increase the mental workload of making sense of stimuli tenfold and result in that I am "behind" the events occurring in real-time, unable to think, look, listen (so on) correctly and in-time.

I don't get anxious but confused (from lack of understanding) and helpless (there's no way to act when you can't move, walk, talk, understand...), unable to comprehend and cope with my environment in a normal, non-autistic way.

Edit: Personally, I favour excitement (as that makes me feel alive and great) which is usually connected to unexpected changes as well as expected major changes but being autistic, I need those routines despite that huger, more complicated routines tend to make me feel bored and uncomfortable after some time.

I am like the OP. I dislike unexpected changes, but I like changes, like moving, which we are going to do in probably less than a year.

I also like vacations and doing non-rountine activity like going out. I actually like it much more than staying home.

I like routine, but every once in a while it starts to become boring. So sometimes I might change that routine slightly, and slowly adjust to a new routine. I usually don't mind change if I'm warned in advance, but hate it if I'm not warned.

Hmm... I wouldn't say I like routine, and I have a hard time understanding why anyone would. I like having guaranteed downtime after school and on the weekends, but I don't consider that routine. It's just me needing to unwind.

I don't like routine - I like knowing what is happening and when.

I need a routine as far as work goes.I am lost without a routine.

I can't stand routines!! I NEED to keep changing my schedule around.

I'm not overly fussed. It's nice to know what I will be doing tomorrow; but if it doesn't happen, it doesn't matter.

I think I need it more than like it. Sometimes I like being repetitive because it calms me - that's what stimming is anyway. But if I didn't do certain things in the same order, especially when it's one thing at a certain set-in-stone time, I will get angry, panicky or simply just stop moving. Sometimes I have to talk myself through them. Tell myself to go do this other thing and eventually I will calm down and adjust. In two days they are using my house to shoot a film (of course it's not my house but I pay rent and live there) and all I'm thinking about is my eating routine, particularly lunch, being interrupted. When I don't eat at the right time I start to get stomach pains and then weakness. I also don't want to get in the way of the shoot.