Neat freak or messy?

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messy............unfortunately

I go through phases where I will be a neat freak and then others where I won't be. It's very difficult for me to sit down and organize myself.

Aspies want to be neat. It's easier on the eyes to have a well-organized, very tidy environment.

But, once it gets to a certain level of mess, a lower executive processing makes it more difficult to start cleaning again.

Thank you everyone for your replies.

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Is the same for me. I made the decision to give up and let somebody else take over the cleaning several times, because I obviously cannot do it. However, I never managed to actually let someone into my apartment. Even my mother was not allowed to clean my room when I was little. I rather did it myself.

My theory is that the chaos in my apartment reflects the chaos in my head. If my room is neat for once, I cannot find anything anymore, but I know where everything is located in my messy chaos.

It's the same for me. Whenever the house has been actually neat, and there are no piles around me, I don't even feel well. I feel visible and exposed. I feel so much more relaxed and at ease with mess.

That is exactly how I feel.

I'm in between now. I used to be a neat freak but now I tend t leave things put like blanket on the floor, shoes out in the entry way, folded clothes still on the chair and coffee table. Towel hanging over the chair. Some dirty dishes in the sink. Two back packs laying out on the floor in front of the chair. But yet I don't like other peoples messes except my own. I will clean it up if I see it out. I told my husband he can make messes in our bedroom and it stays in there.

According to the rule book (DSM-IV) you are not supposed to diagnose someone with ADHD if they fit the criteria for an ASD or various other conditions at the same time. Many people with ASD do, in fact, meet the criteria for ADHD, and sometimes people get both diagnoses even though DSM-IV seems to rule it out. The new DSM5 will allow concurrent diagnoses of ASD and ADHD, as far as I remember.

ADHD is a common misdiagnosis for females with ASD. But Aspies have social and communication problems that ADHD don't have, and the repetitive behaviours, restricted interests, rigid routines are not required in ADHD either. Executive dysfunction is at the core of ADHD, but it is only part of ASD, and is not explicitly mentioned in the diagnostic criteria.

Depends on the situation.
I'm more lenient with my stuff
But if I'm at work or at a friend's house I try not to make a mess

I'm both messy and neat. I'd be neat all the time if it weren't for the difficult decisions I'd have to make about all the stuff I've accumulated......throw it away or keep it? What disposal route, or where should I store it? Those decisions would take me years to make. It's not just real stuff.......I'm exactly the same with computer files.

Messy. To the max. I don't notice it as "a mess" - until the doorbell rings. THEN I notice it! ROFL!!

I'm a clean freak. I like things to be clean, and I can't stand messy rooms.

I am well organized and quite clean.

Hmmm, cleanliness, next to godliness.

I suppose I'm both extreme, really. I'll just echo what I heard above and say I'm both 'militantly' clean and oblivious to things that need cleaning. Sometimes I will get in a compulsive mood where once I start cleaning I won't stop cleaning until I've cleaned every gosh darn corner of every thing. The cleaning demon comes out from where I've trapped him I suppose. I never know when he'll strike, but when he does every thing I see compels me to clean it. I also clean when I'm angry?

When it comes to other people's things however I am very clean. I like this quote by Fiona Apple when it concerns home and hearth: