Lining up and stacking

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Currently I work at a library sorting and shelving adult and YA fiction and nonfiction books. It's probably one of the most Aspie-friendly jobs out there

I do this all the time. My wife has to stop me from doing it when we are out.

As a child I liked to take all of my books off the shelves and stack them by size and color and put them in boxes, then take them out and put them back on the shelves. Looking back it was a very odd thing to do.

Now I take pleasure in tetris and loading the dish washer *just right.* Sorting my craft supplies by color is fun too.

I often do that if my daughter is playing with her blocks


I worked in a pet store(or pet supply store I suppose, because there weren't any pets there) about 5 years ago, and I used to spend most of my customer-free time, which was most of the time luckily(small town), alligning all the items on the shelves.

I can't stand my order being messed around in my house and I have a particular 'thing' about washing up and if anyone distrupts it I can go nuts. I once walked out of the house highly offended when someone questioned the way I washed up LOL Until I calmed down I was ready to end the relationship.... all over some utensils!

With regards to stacking and lining up...I generally do this with washing when it comes out of the machine..I think I managed to hide all my habits within habits of everyday life if that makes sense such as with household chores and cleaning in general. I tend to find small tidy boxes that you can buy from supermarkets that would usually be used for putting stationary or screws in like you would in a garage for tools helpful for my toiletries in the bathroom..that way I can stack them and line them up when I am done showering. I also have to see everything that I need in my office for example I dont like cupboards where I cant see whats in them even if I know whats in them...IKEA makes me happy with there expedit shelves that are just large pigeon holes.

Does anyone else have any 'hidden' habits they have for stacking and lining up that NT's would not notice or consider just a quirk etc?

I once read that David Beckham lines ornaments up with the edge of dressing tables in hotel rooms.
I do similar things myself at home.

I would take plastic cars that my brother would play with and line them up in the hallway, all neatly touching each other, in rainbow order. If you moved one of them, I would panic and either move it back, if that person repeatedly did that, I would have a minor meltdown. These people would be my mom, my brother, and my sister.

I still play with my food (especially M & Ms) and I enjoy it very much. The response to this method of play was "Aren't you going to play with it?" but I would just stare into space blankly not knowing what they said.

I used to stack pennies in my teens, too! I collected a huge jar of pennies (but only the solid copper, 1980 & previous ones) and would spend hours stacking them, interlocking the columns for stability, making arches, pyramids, towers, walls, and cantilevered spans.

Before that I stacked blocks - not building anything, just sorting them into towers by size or color. Also Legos: sorting them by size, shape & color, creating long stuck-together sections of white 2x2 pieces, for example, then adding on yellow 2x2 pieces, then the red ones, and on & on. When I recently "helped" a nephew with his Lego project, I did the same thing while he built his ersatz star base & ships & enacted battles between them.

Part of my job is to line up and organize a case full of (amazing!) chocolates; also, to organize these into gift boxes at times. Everyone else there seems to find this annoying and tedious. Maybe it's needless to say that I'd happily spend all day stocking and organizing the chocolate case!

I have been known to stack, line up, and organize things.

Often.

Yes and no, I like to be organized and have everything in its place and have been known to organize store displays, until I realized your suppost to get payed to do that! I don't think I quite showed meny of those classic symptoms in the way that meny would expect though, some good examples of things I did do was even as a 2 year old I required all the cars or trains I played with to be of the same scale size, if I built a house out of lego all the walls had to be built out of the same color blocks and I have always had obsessions about things simatry, things being centred, using complmentry colors, having everything match etc. These things are as important to me today as back then, they often prevented me from playing with and interacting with kids then and can have the same effect now as messing up any of the fore mentioned things makes me feel very angry and violated.

So after thinking about it while writing I suppose I do line stuff up and the like after all, its just that I don't think as a kid a doctor would not likely have picked up on alot of what I was doing as it usually was expressed through an odd sort of perfectionism as apposed to randomly stacking boxes or something.

Hehehe...I can relate. I worked in corporate libraries for 11 years and the books were perfectly in order. And I own about 1000 books and when I'm in my own place (I live with my mom at the moment and don't have the space to organize), they're ordered according to topic and height. Even the icons on my desktop are in a straight row. I don't understand people who have theirs scattered all over the screen. I've working as a cashier in a couple of jobs the last few years, and counting change always involved the stacks being perfectly even, and I'm probably one of the few people in the world who doesn't mind rolling change into those little paper jackets.

Oh, and I sort colored candy too -- and not just M&Ms. Skittles, Starbursts, Reese's Pieces. Jelly Bellies, and so on.

It drives me nuts if my clothes' colors don't match! Even if I'm going out to mow the lawn, my raggedy lawn-mowing clothes have to color-coordinate -- down to the Scrunchie I pull my hair back with.

I didn't think I really did this sort of thing, but reading this thread brings so many small things into perspective.

I have a stack of manilla folders on my dest being processed. They are in sets of 6 or so at 90degrees to each other (easy to pick up). but the top set keeps getting bumped, so I'm forever squaring up the top set.

I've got my reference books categorised by subject, and sized largest on the left to smallest on the right.

I remember getting M&M's and splashing them over my desk, then shuffling them around to form lines to eat them one at a time.

I'm a draftsman, and I do go to great lengths to make my plans presentable. All sizes and shapes must be consistant and form a complete ballanced picture.

I was in Wal Mart the other day and (as always) was inspecting the toy aisle for potential novelties when I came across the shelves of plastic dinosaurs (dinosaurs being a special interest of mine) in disarray, so I reorganised them; I was pleased with the result

I have coins in my room that I have lined up and arranged in a pattern.