How long does it take you to get ready?

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I like to look at myself in the mirror as I get ready and sort everything into groups e.g. I'll compile my mittens, hat and jacket ect. into a pile and put each piece on separately.

People at the gym stand there and wait for me to get ready and leave. I'll tell them it'll take me quite a while and they're shocked.

Isn't there more than one dressing area? Is there another place you can get ready? Can you place these things in a bag and have them arranged so you can just take them out while you put them on in another area?

It takes me a really long time, because I hate being rushed, if I am rushed I will leave without things I need.

I did that too at the airport security screening, to sort my purse and coat and shoes into plastic bins to go on the roller. I just told the nice old men behind me to please go around me because it would be a few minutes.

Depending if im running late for my bus or im not i can take between 10 and 45 minutes to get ready. Mainly cause i talk to myself as im doing it and ill hold a mini conversation with myself in the mirror... mainly talking up an issue im haven with sum1 else etc.. or trying to make a speech off the top of my head or sumtin. ^^
So i tend to procrastinate getting ready in the morning...

I can get ready pretty quickly. I tend to make sure my bag is packed the night before for school and stuff. If it's unplanned, it takes a bit longer, but not too long.

When I presented as female it took me a lot longer to get ready, with hair and stuff. I much prefer presenting as male, where the hair takes much less work.

I think my dad's autistic, though it's just speculation on the part of my sisters and me. All the time we were growing up, he took for...ev...er... to get ready to do anything. I think I've got Asperger's, and I take kinda long. I also take long showers, though I've worked really hard to shorten them so that my girlfriend doesn't have to pay too much for the extra hot water. It's harder in the winter or when I'm really tired, though. In fact, my father and I seem to take long to do everything. We're just picky, slow moving people, I guess.

Usually, it doesn't take me a long time to get ready to go out, because I don't worry about hair, clothes, and makeup.

There are certain situations when it takes me a very long time to get ready, and those are when someone tells me about an unplanned activity that we have to go do now!now!now!, and I can't process this horrific information and have to finish what I'm doing first, right after I unfreeze from the terror.

It takes a long time (and effort) for me to prepare myself to leave for work in the morning. I'm in conflict whenever I live with others, the only exception being my parents. I take a shower, wash my teeth, shave. This latter two takes much more time for me than for other people (usually 4 and 15 minutes, respectively), although I'm pretty quick at showering. Altogether, it may take up an hour.

I usually get ready pretty quick if I have to. When I leave the house in the morning, I'll just have to remember to get up when the alarm rings, not linger in bed with a book, eat breakfast quick, wash and dress. With things like WhiteWidow described... I usually don't like to be to long in my gyms changing area (room full of chattering NT women, no personal sspace and that perfume/hair spray smell . So I tend to leave very quick

When I wake up, I do this:

1. Get out of bed.
2. Pull the blankets over my bed.
3. Open my clean clothes hamper.
4. Select clean undershirt, t-shirt, and underwear from clean clothes hampers.
5. Close the hampers.
6. Open the nightstand.
7. Take my scale out of the nightstand.
8. Carry the scale and the clothes to the bathroom.
9. Set the clothes on top of the towel rack.
10. Set the scale on the floor.
11. Use the bathroom.
12. Get undressed.
13. Weigh myself.
14. Put the clothes I was wearing back on.
15. Take my scale back to my bedroom.
16. Put the scale back in the nightstand.
17. Close the nightstand.
18. Go to the kitchen.
19. Prepare breakfast(Steps vary depending on what I make).
20. Go back to my bedroom.
21. Sit at my computer.
22. Check my email.
23. Finish eating breakfast.
24. Get up.
25. Undress.
26. Put the dirty clothes in the dirty clothes hamper.
27. Walk back to the bathroom.
28. Reach up to the top towel shelf and get the Olay Pro-X device.
29. Put the Olay Pro-X device on the sink.
30. Reach into the towel shelf and grab a towel.
31. Put the towel on the edge of the sink.
32. Open the medicine cabinet.
33. Take out the Olay Pro-X exfoliating cleanser gel.
34. Set the cleanser on the edge of the sink.
35. Get in the shower.
36. Close the shower curtain.
37. Turn on the water.
38. Make sure it's the right temperature.
39. Switch the water from the bath faucet to the shower faucet.
40. Pick up the removable shower head.
41. QUICKLY start running water all over myself to get wet to avoid the shock.
42. Put my right hand in my hair to check if my hair is oily.
43. If so, squirt shampoo into my hands, wash my hair, and rinse.
44. Look in my shower mirror to see if I need to shave.
45. If so, dry my face with the washcloth sitting on the windowsill, put the washcloth back on the windowsill, then lather my face and shave.
46. Rinse my face.
47. Rub soap on my scrub brush.
48. Rub the soap on my face, neck and back of my neck.
49. Use the scrub brush to brush my face, neck, and back of my neck.
50. Use the removable shower head to rinse my face, neck and back of my neck.
51. Rub soap on my left arm, chest, right arm, then back.
52. Rinse my right hand.
53. Use the scrub brush to scrub my left arm, chest, right arm, then back.
54. Use the removable shower head to rinse my left arm, chest, right arm, then back.
55. Use soap to scrub the bottom half of my body in the front, my right leg, right foot, left leg, left leg, then butt.
56. Rinse my right hand.
57. Use the scrub brush to scrub the bottom half of my body in the front, my right leg, right foot, left leg, left leg, then butt.
58. Use the removable shower head to rinse the bottom half of my body in the front, my right leg, right foot, left leg, left leg, then butt.
59. Turn off the water.
60. Open the shower curtain.
61. Look at the medicine cabinet mirror.
62. If I missed any hairs when shaving, make sure to fix that.
63. Use the washcloth on the windowsill to dry my face, left shoulder, and right shoulder.
64. Squirt Olay Pro-X gel onto my right index and middle finger, and apply to left shoulder, right shoulder, and face.
65. Use the Olay Pro-X device to exfoliate left shoulder, right shoulder, and face.
66. Put the Pro-X gel back into the medicine cabinet.
67. Close the shower curtain.
68. Turn the water back on.
69. Rinse the gel off of my face and shoulders.
70. Turn the water off.
71. Open the shower curtain.
72. Use the towel to dry off.
73. Get out of the shower.
74. Get deodorant out of the medicine cabinet, apply deodorant, and put it back into the medicine cabinet.
75. Use Nivea moisturizer to moisturize my stomach, face, back, shoulders, and legs.
76. Put on underwear and shirts.
77. Walk back to my bedroom.
78. Spray pants with water so they won't be staticky.
79. Get pants off of a hanger.
80. Put on my pants.
81. Get socks out of clean clothes hamper.
82. Sit down.
83. Put on socks.
84. Put on the correct pair of shoes.
85. Go back to bathroom.
86. Fill oral irrigator with water.
87. Use oral irrigator to clean out the area between my teeth.
88. Put toothpaste on toothbrush.
89. Brush teeth.
90. Use oral irrigator tongue scraper to scrape tongue.
91. Use mouthwash.
92. If I shaved, take aftershave balm out of the medicine cabinet, put on aftershave balm, and put it back into the medicine cabinet.
93. Walk back to my bedroom.
94. Put my wallet in my right front pocket.
95. Put my keys in my right front pocket.
96. Put my lip balm in my right front pocket.
97. Turn bluetooth on on my iPhone.
98. Put my iPhone in my left front pocket.
99. Put my wireless headphones on.
100. Turn on my headphones.

I get ready in few minutes because I always now what I will wear and what I will do. If, for some reason, I don't know that - I will be late for sure.
One morning, I couldn't fin my trousers because my mother put them with other laundry. It took me half an hour to decide what to wear. But these situations are exceptions.

Oh, and I didn't know that my list would be exactly 100 steps. That is just a coincidence.

It takes me 20 mins to get up after the radio alarm starts. I never feel refreshed in the morning, no matter how good a sleep I think I've had. But, I can be ready in a flash, even with my long thick curly hair, which I dampen every morning. I leave my clothes out on a table, the night before, so I have nothing to think about. At the weekend, I'm a lot slower.

But, my daughter takes ages. When she was little she used to put her clothes on the floor, in the same way she would be wearing them, before she would attempt to get dressed. So, I lay them out in a similar fashion for her. I've just started a sort of visual schedule to try to keep her on track. It's a game called 'Dress the Alien' which I've designed. She has a picture of an alien and lots of hand drawn clothing items. As she puts on each item, she sticks the same items on the alien's body. Eventually we get there and it's working better (for now anyway) than the 'Come on, hurry up, we're going to be late, listen the radio has gone off as it's been on for an hour already, stop reading/drawing/eating, put down that DS, where are you going?, come back now, aaarrrgghh...'

I can quite literally be ready within 30 seconds.