lining up my toys

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I have some toys that I like lining up in rows. I love looking at them when they are all lined up.
Does anyone else like this?

When I had toys, yes. I love order. It's very soothing. That's why religious ritual can be so comforting to me.

I do it to practically every group of objects that can be lined up. It's very soothing to me.

Word of the day:
"soothing"
If you say it again and again it sounds stranger and stranger.

It simultaneously soothes and agitates me, because no matter how 'lined up' they are they will never be perfect.

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I did some lining up when I played with toys (up to the age of 11), and also markers. I didn't find it particularly soothing, it was just something I did, and once it was done, I could only look at it for so long before I played something else.

Yep. Toys and whatever else.

I like stuff to be neat, a lot of us do. All the test equipment in my workshop is lined up on the shelves ready for use and I do the same with my tools. At least I can find everything!

Apparently even back when I was an infant, I was prone to arranging my toys in neat rows with specific patterns. Allegedly, according to my grandparents, Queen Elizabeth II did the same thing.

I have a very cluttered house due to two children and a very (uneasy) wide open space. So when I see something on the table or down if I am down on the floor with my son or daughter, I am impulsed to just organize it in a row or even just in a evenly spaced apart pattern. I feel happy and less stressed when I do it knowing something in this crazy house is organized to my liking. I also tend to do it when I talk to people. I do not like eye contact so I can keep the conversation going if I look down and make myself look busy. Once I had a conversation with my brother in law and by the end I lined up all the cue balls on the pool table in order. I honestly did not remember most of the conversation by the end, but I was feeling less anxious with him around and the balls looked wonderful all lined up

Yes, of course.

I also compulsively close cabinet doors (even in other people's homes) because having unordered things in view is very distracting.

I do it with coins

I also do this, lots. everything must be arranged in a specific order. It's really nice, and I guess soothing is the word.

i would line up my toys when i cleaned but stacked them for a soothing passtime. i would stack pretty much anything and make piles of my clothes and toys as well. my two favorite things were stacking and piling.