Why Aspies are disorganized

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Understimulation. Whenever I'm not organized it's because I'm too bored (not just bored; that trivializes it-- seriously starved of stimulation) to pay attention to anything as understimulating as life outside my head. I need light, I need motion. I have some in my head, so I daydream instead of looking at the faces properly.


How about you?

I am not un-organized at all, Ill admit my house is a tad cluttered, but when I go to work I organaize all of my math on my paperwork, at home I organize all of my finances on Microsoft money to stay in budget, plan for my future and know what bills are due when, set up accounts for things I need in the future like a new dryer, furnace repair or car maintanance. I am so financially organized I often know how much a bill will be based on how I live that mounth and looking at the past.

When I pack I keep things organized so when I am on the hiking trail or out in the woods I know where everything is and keep certain things together. I definatly feel my ASD allows me to be more organized then most, especally when it comes to financial stuff because I am FAR from being wealthy, and actually work part time ATM so tho money is tight right now I still manage to stay on top and unlike my peers who spend their money and then are broke or start sinking in debt, I remain good by keeping what I need in and out and NEVER being broke more then a day like on Thursday before payday because to me fiscal organization and responsibility is everything, especally now that I dont work much because otherwise I would sink real quick and fall into debt.

My thoughts are more interesting than the world around me. This makes it hard to focus on the more mundane aspects of reality.

You're basically saying what I said. So we have something in common.

Yes. I habitually spend a lot of time online because it's so cerebral - reading about other people's thoughts, articulating my own, looking up whatever sparks my imagination at the moment.

My thoughts exactly...

That makes3 of us who are disorganized due to understimulation.


Do you guys get as annoyed and depressed and angry as I do when people think it's something I need to learn or be taught, as if we don't know how or don't know better or something? Or disciplined into us as if we're doing it on purpose or focused on other things just as un-stimulating because we don't know better?

Yes, it's definitely annoying.

Yes. When I was growing up, parents and teachers made a serious effort to teach me how to be organized. They "taught" me how to make time management charts and such. They never bothered to ask me why I was disorganized. They just kept "teaching" me the same time management techniques year after year as though the problem was that I didn't understand these ridiculously simple concepts! If anything, this made me more disorganized because it emphasized that reality is boring - repetitive and predictable.

I usually lose myself in the run of my thoughts too much to be paying attention to how organised I am, unless I catch myself.

hay this is my first post. I am knew to the board. Yeah, I am really disorganized. When counts (work) I am organized. But like at home, only me and myself can live at home. it's a hazmat zone. omg.... yeah, that needs some work. I just seem to not know how to clean, and the need, isnt there anyway. But yeah...

I'm unorganized because my mind doesn't have time for it. I usually am much too busy to even think about cleaning up the trail I leave...
I have the scariest backpack in the world. It weighs 23.5 pounds (with two accessory bags), and I can barely lift it. I struggle to open it too
My locker's clean though

This sounds more like ADHD than Asperger's syndrome.

NeantHumain is right on track here.....where is this 'understimulation' stuff coming from? Look up Simon Baron-Cohen, or Tony Attwood, or Olga Bogdashina, or Temple Grandin, or any current researcher in the field of autism research.

Ana - are you just making this stuff up? I 'get' this may be true for you, which is fine, but lets not generalize and say this is why autistic individual does behavior X.

btw, many autistics are super-organized. I am one! Incorrect to say otherwise. Often there are extremes.

I'm usually very organized, because if I'm not, I get in trouble. The only problem I run into is when people around me aren't organized. Or maybe I'm just a*al...