Is this a routine trait in disguise?

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I've always prided myself as an in the moment type of person. Planning is something I don't do, and I live a completely unscheduled life.

However, after just emptying my coat pockets of 3 months worth of till receipts, ATM receipts and random paperwork, I have realised most of them are completely unnecessary. In fact, the majority of ATM receipts, I only requested because I always do. Generally, I know already what the receipt will say, and have no need to file one anywhere, but I request it and stick it in my pocket, where it usually stays until it falls out and gets lost.

Till receipts are less strange, because they are not optional. But I could still throw them away when I leave the shop??

I know that the only reason I have all these is because I was once curious about budgeting, so I was keeping paperwork to enter into my old PC, then discarding once finished. I lost interest in budgeting, and the PC left, but the routine(?) of keeping receipts continued.

I'm just slightly amazed now. I weighed my 'stash' before throwing it away. 500g. The coat was a christmas present, so every last bit has come along since then. 5 old travel passes, an instruction booklet, 3 shopping lists, a programme from an organised trip last month, a flyer that was being handed out in the street, an appointment slip, and well over 100 till receipts and ATM slips.

I dread digging through my old coat....

One of the NAS support staff am have said almost all the service users she works with are horders/collectors in some way or another.

Am the same with different sorts of stuff,wont throw anything away if have gotten used to seeing it around for too long,have even got a few big bottles of unfinished fizzy drink on floor that are over a year old,having had them in bedroom at last residential.

I am definitly a horder, big horder. Only way to stop this is to stop acquiring stuff. I have a giant bin, a box, and a set of drawers full of stuff I have accumulated over the years. I want to throw the stuff out, but I don't know how. I do find it odd however that you would become attached to a couple of bottles of pop, but hey, I really should stop thinking anything about ASDers is odd, as we all have some unusual quirks. And right now on my computer desk I have 10-20 empty bottles because executive dysfunction is telling me to not take them out to the recycling. I also have a huge stack of dirty dishes for the same reason.

What's executive dysfunction?

Your dishes sounds familiar...

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~LL~

My coat pockets are always full of "stuff" I find when I'm out walking: flower seeds, stones, an especially nice leaf or twig formation, lucky pennies , and then there's those atm receipts, or store receipts that build up, but nothing like the amount that you seem to acquire. I agree that Aspies are often hoarders, mainly, I think, because we are attracted to objects and find significance in them.

Executive dysfunction is where you can't do something because you just can't get up and do it. For example, I cannot seem to get my teeth brushed most days, as I just can't find the whatever it takes to grab my toothbrush and paste and head to the washroom and brush them, there is no explanation for it except I just don't think of it unless it absolutly needs to get done.

Yes I can relate. My flatmate tells me my get up and go got up and went. I didn't realise there was a name for it though.

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~LL~