All rechargables must be at 100%

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After being Dx'd not too long back I'm still learning things about myself that may not be normal behavior for NT's

I have to have all the rechargeable batteries and electronics fully recharged to 100% all the time.
I run my iphone down deliberately to complete the cycle but stress out and recharge it asap

Anyone else have similar 'things'?

I have the opposite problem. I'm so busy that almost every time I turn a device on, it's completely discharged and I have to start over.

What bugs me is that every...single...device on the planet has to have a different cord and charger, and normally a different style plug for the device itself. What can stop the insanity?

But that's terrible for the batteries and makes them wear out faster. You want to be between 40% and 80%, not at 0% or 100%, if they're lithium ion.

Its the old nickel cadmium that had the "memory" issue. Li-Ion Batteries are a lot better in regards to charging like that.

It's not a memory issue, it has to do with how they wear out. Li-Ion batteries lose capacity over time and they lose capacity much faster at full charge or empty. It's why if you keep a laptop plugged in all the time you actually kill the battery much faster than if you use the battery. The number of times the battery cycles has only very little to do with how the battery wears its almost entirely time at various points of charge.

Li-Ion batteries are shipped at about 40% usually, though I've known some places to store at 70% instead. That's why you never have a fully battery when you get a new device, its because if it was stored full it would necessarily be not as good of a battery.

Keeping a battery at fully charged always will just necessarily mean that it loses capacity faster.

The worst thing with NiCd or Ni-hydride cells is to run a pack down so low that some cells are reverse biased, this is the thing which I think is the "best way to kill a cell". Once a cell in a battery pack is dead then the whole battery is close to worthless.

I killed one laptop by never taking it off charge, I tend to use it on the train and give the battery a bit of a work out at least 4 times a week which helps to keep it in shape.

My PSP has a rubbish battery life. It drains out after a day if its switched off. If I use it or not.

Means i can only play it if plugged into mains.