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Am I the only one that has dual organization? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/autism
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I have both ADHD and Autism for context.

Anyway I recently started noticing that I tend to have dual organizational systems in my apartment. Some things and storage spaces are totally organized to the 10th degree. Other things and storage spaces are totally chaotic and some of my belongings just end up wherever I drop them. It is kind if weird because there is a very clear differences in something like my closet. My main bag and dresser is super organized but but my desk and under my bed is often just a dumping zone. I end up having to clean up a bunch of junk and trash every 2 weeks or so.

I have also noticed that I sometimes will get really impulsive and move things around. Of course this triggers my desire to keep everything the same so I end up moving everything back. It's like my ADHD jumps in and then the Autism takes back over.

Same thing with me going to social outings. I will suddenly get a desire to go into a bar or group activity but when I get there I get overwhelmed in 5 minutes or less and I end up mostly keeping to myself in the corner. I want to go get wild and have fun but then I get overwhelmed by where I should look. I don't want to accidentally stare at someone to long so I just look at the floor.

What's wild that I just realized this more recently

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm autistic but not ADHD (and can't think of a better way of starting this off). I definitely have to reorganize them soon because I've been lazy recently, but all my CDs, DVD, and games are organized alphabetically. Music files on my desktop/laptop are organized in folders named by artist followed by whatever subfolder(s) I need from there, which are auto alphabetized thankfully. Phone needs some major work getting that mess taken care of, though, which I totally wanna do but probably never will get around to due to having over 500 files on a single SD card.

Games are sorted by console/case size (PS2 cases > PS3 cases type of thing) as well since I have limited space in my bedstand things. I also keep all the manga I have just organized in a dresser drawer by keeping volumes from the same sets together, but not in alphabetical order if I remember correctly.

Other than those, and roughly where the dishes go in the kitchen and dishwasher, I am not super organized past the normal certain clothes types in certain drawers thing I assume most everyone does regardless of being autistic or not. Organization is something that kinda drains me a little since usually the things I'm organizing are a lots of smaller things (dishes not included because I have that down to a science on where things should go for the most part), so I try to keep things clean enough, even if that means foregoing good organization of things.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Growing up a I knew someone who was both Autistic and OCD. Its funny since my mom knew his mom pretty well so I ended up spending some time with him in elementary school. I'm ADHD and I literally will pickup and touch everything which drove him insane. He had everything in its place (he liked collections) and I would come it and pick things up.

Its funny though because both of us were insistent on eating exactly the same thing for lunch each day. My diet was different than his but we both would get frustrated when things changed from the routine.