Lining up and stacking

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I still line up things. Even when I was small I would start realigning cans in the grocery store. I only tend to arrange certain things though, like pebbles, coins, Skittles and other objects that lend well to lining up.

I'm also the official coin sorter for our family. XD

Another thing I used to do is when I had a packet of smarties I sorted them in their colours.

When I was a teenager, one of my favorite things to do was stacking pennies. They were the perfect size. I would get thousands of them and stack them in intricate designs. Building houses with unsported roofs and only gravity holding them together. I could stay up day and night stacking them.

In my late 40's I still stack or line things out when I looking at them or putting them away. I don't even have to think about doig it.

As a little kid I always lined up my toys. It was natural.

In the checkout line when grocery shopping I usually use my items to make a pyramid as high as possible on the conveyor belt. Most of the time it remains intact when the clerk activates the forward button. Never sure about the clerks reaction.

Is it an Aspie trait to measure everything on your desk to make sure it is straight? I do that all the time...

I hate it if the mouse pad is crooked. And I polish it all the time as hate finger prints. I know where everything should be in the room and people will move things slightly to see if I notice and when they leave I go around and put everything back exactly as it should be.

Bill

I was recently playing with a child and I started absentmindedly lining up his toy farm animals. I have my collection of books and my collection of stuffed frogs lined up and displayed on my desks and shelves(but this a little different because I just keep them displayed in a line up...I don't sit and line them up). I don't think I did this a lot as a child but I remember lining up old medicine bottles (empty one) at-least once. I also used to have a collection of stuffed monkeys that I would always arrange in a circle and sit in the middle of it............

I do this with food. All of the cans in my cupboard are stacked by type and separated. Also I separate things by expiration date. I also do it with my cosmetic-type stuff in my room. I actually bought clear plastic boxes so that I could separate and line everything up according to when I use them

I forgot about the books. One subject per shelf but the have to go in order from tall to small. It just looks better.

I don't remember doing it as a children, but I do it as an adult. Books are obvious: my history books are in chronological order, the others are in alphabetical order by the author's family name (well, now it's a huge mess, and I might find another way to organize all of it). I also like lining my pencils before the class begins, my CDs and DVDs are in alphabetical order in a huge case and are all turned the right way, and I always reorganize the shortcuts on my desktop when I add or delete one (rarely more than twelve, but it can take twenty minutes). I often start making coherent ensembles with random objects, too.

I do it sometimes, but since I discovered the Internet...not much at all. I spend 15 hours a day on the internet doing as much as possible.

I only like to stand pens on end.

I would line up my barbies by order of preference. I had a couple russian stacking dolls that had to be lined up just so.

I very often stack objects. Used to do this when I was a kid as well. When having lunch I'd make a habit of stacking jars that were on the table, and it would upset me every time my parents would unstack them again because "they'll fall over!". Even when I was a little kid, I explained them that well-stacked jars don't randomly fall over since gravity keeps them in place

Things don't have to be perfectly lined up, as long as it looks generally organized. If some environment looks very unorganized, I usually can't find the things I'm looking for. That turns my head into chaos as well.

It's funny because I was a MESSY, messy child, so no.

But a few years ago, I started doing all of this. My house is super clean now, and and I'm looking at a few rows of towers rigt this minute.

I didn't realize when I came here that the onset age for women and OCD is early-mid 20s, I actually think I might might have it LOL.

I'm not entirely serious, and even if I do it's mild but it explains my increasing Aspie traits more so tha nmy theory of "AS getting worse".