Who loves sorting things?

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When I was little I used to love sorting things. Though oddly, I seem to have lost some of patience for it in my old age :p. I used to spend hours on end sorting my computer game collection alphabetically, figuring out exactly what title to use for sorting for things like AOL CDs and random game demo CDs sorting numbers ahead of letters, it was great fun. I also used to spend a lot of time sorting through my Star Trek Collectible Card Game cards, putting like cards together, splitting everything into categories, and alphabetizing within the categories. I think I had far too much free time as a kid :p. Who else enjoys sorting stuff?

I can not stop sorting things, and whenever someone would mess my stuff up, I would get really frustrated!

It seems everything I see or come in contact with needs to be put into a better place. If it's too big of a mess tho, I say screw it. If I can't sort it, I'll hide it.

I like to sort my books into genre or alphabetical order.

I sort all of my candy by color/flavor before I eat it.

Many people think sorting things is a horrible job. Meanwhile I love doing it. It makes me wonder why no one is offering to pay people to sort things.

IIIII love it. I guess I'm pretty odd. I recently worked at a movie store and my favorite thing was when people brought in trades because we had to process them and then put them out on the sales floor. Although I HATED it when a particular shelf was full...that meant moving entire sections around. But yes, in general, it's fun.


Flismflop - Be a mail clerk! Or work retail, like a bookstore.

Sorted a couple hundred magazines and three trays of antique silver flatware today... very relaxing. Can spend hours sorting buttons, papers, odds & ends...


M.

Yeah no I'm just kind of weird in general. I took one of those aspie quizzes and it was like, "You have some aspie characteristics and some NT characteristics." Um...thanks?

I think it boils down to...I'm pretty aspie inside, but I'm able to almost perfectly conceal it because my "obsessions" are about human social interactions and boiling them down to a science - language, body language, fashion, sociology, psychology, etc.

Technically I'm "gifted". I.e., a weirdo.

But yeah I've always loved sorting things and filling out forms. When I was a little kid, I HAD to fill out the forms at the doctor's office. And like I said, I *loved* getting trades at my old job:

1. inspect
2. clean
3. shrinkwrap
4. sticker
5. sort
6. repeat times a million

It was the bomb. You could get lost in your own little world while you did it.

Hmm, you may be kind of borderline then. I think I was considerably more aspie as a kid but have grown out of a lot of it. I used to get perverse pleasure out of filling out web forms and used to insist whenever I played a computer game on trying every single possible combination of actions to see what would happen, and had been known to spend weeks at a time going through my entire computer game collection in alphabetical order, insisting I would play every single one through and find every single little hidden extra in them. Granted I usually didn't get very far in that before I got bored, but still... Anyway, as I have gotten older I have lost a lot of my patience for that sort of stuff and now am just kind of an amateur aspie. I took the online quiz and was rated a little more aspie than NT, so I guess that means I am borderline as well, though a little more on the aspie side. I have spent several years studying human social interaction and trying to boil it down to a science, and have decided at this point it's pretty much all BS. None of it makes any sense at all, people do stupid stuff because their brains are programmed to act in a certain way and it's all rather dumb and arbitrary. I've decided I should try and devote my attention to field of study that makes more sense, so I'm studying physics instead. I have gotten very good these past couple years at acting nice and personably and marginally extroverted when I need to, so I can interact in social situation reasonably well when I have to, I just don't like to that much, it's quite a drain on my energy and my mental resources. Also, I don't like to use paragraphs very much, as it's kind of hard for me to determine where one thought ends and the next begins, as my thoughts tend to kind of run into one another, with one causing another one and so on and no clear divisions in between them. I do well in hit and run social interactions but am a bit less reliable when it comes to actually getting to know people, and frankly that is becoming too much work for me. Oh, and really love programming, because that is one thing where I can get lost in my own little world, focus on the task I am doing and go into this zone and suddenly several hours have gone by and I have had precious little if any thoughts of other topics to include food and/or going to the bathroom or any kind of personal comfort concerns, it's all programming.

In case you couldn't tell, I am also a weird .

I like sorting things, my problem is that figureing out the order becomes an obsecion, I spent hours once trying to order a pantry. Of course not knowing what I have to work with sometimes, or even finding out that something you add pulls apart your order drives me insane. Often when I go to the game store and see all the unorderd shelves and things I get the urge to just order it all, but I have noticed that they often spread them out so people don't think the game sucks. One game in particular is a game called 'brute force', to me it is laughable at how they try to spread it out, but often sometimes I do do a bit ordering. At the moment I have organised my 360 games by when I got them as that made the most sense I have a collection of Goosebumps in number order but it anoys me that I am missing a couple. The thing is that my ordering side is a side of me that I rather not use too much as sometimes it has made me realy stressed, but I do often love it.

I used to organize my school textbooks by the class number of the class I got them for .

I`m always running out of space because i`m into coins and
have been for over 20 years now, and theres one box for each
type of coin, one box for every different year, one box for die
varietys within that type and year and so on... thats alot of
boxes theres 134 boxes just to cover every year from 1874
to 2008 from one country.

Always felt it very relaxing when sorting things, pretty much all
i did at the age 5 to 8. Tools, buttons, silverwear, stamps, people,
you name it, I`ve probably sorted it

Every Halloween I always sort out my candy before eating it, no matter how much I have. I also count how many pieces I have and how many of what type I have. I sort everything out into piles (e.g. tootsie rolls in one pile, candy corn in another pile.)
My books are usually organized by author, series, date of publish, title, or publisher, depending on what mood I am in.
My CD's are organized by what type they are, whether they are games, software, drivers, music, or movies.
I organize just about everything I can, although my room is almost always a mess and seems unorganized, to me it is all organized as to how I like it.

My room is messy too, but it is as organised as I want. The thing is that I can be organising things for hours and to do it properly would require me ti do the whole room, and one thing I know is that there is way too many variables to do that.