Lining up toys....the adult version.

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Undiagnosed Aspie here.

So I was talking to my sister today, and she informed me that when I was a kid I would line up my toys and organize them...which I know is a typical aspie thing. It got me thinking about how that kind of play transfers to the adult life.

I've noticed that nowadays when I game, its about order. I play WOW and minecraft and Skyrim...I notice its not the 'play' that I enjoy, its the organizing of my character-items or toolbars. Completing tasks and quests over the actual fighting. Collecting things in the game is a big one. I don't play magic cards anymore, but when I did it was all about making decks and organizing my cards. Id do it over and over.
Anyone else?

My mom said that I stacked, lined up, and organized my toys when I was little. I have all my clothes sorted by types of clothing. My pants and jeans are stacked on the shelf in my closet. My skirts are skirt hangers and they are sorted by brand and style of skirt. My dresses and blouses are lined up from oldest to newest. I also have a stack of books and magazines on my desk.

I am the same way playing LOTRO. Hours of it.

I was classically autistic....but I was messy/disorganized.

I didn’t line up my toys.

Yeah, I do that even now, just not actually with toys. When playing Sims, I like the part about building a house and arranging the furniture the most. I also like to organize my bookshelf (fiction here, World War II there, North Korea stuff in this corner etc...) except now it's mostly organized by the size of the books since it looked messy when it was organized by themes. Plus it's starting to run out of space.

I didn't start lining up my toys until around middle school, and when I noticed I was doing it, I started to realize that maybe I was too old for toys.

I still do it sometimes in certain situations...like if we're playing D&D, during downtime I'll sort my dice by shape, or color, or stack them, etc.

I'm totally messy irl. In the game too really. That's why I spend so much time organizing.

I do programming. All my code must line up and with the correct number of blank lines between them. When I deal with other people's code, my first priority is to line them all up before I can do anything else.

For gaming, my inventory must be organised with specific gut-determined functional order.

Hi.

"I don't play anymore" means you once used to play the game like it should.
"Organize over and over" has more to do with compulsion than the so-called autistic special interests.

Lastly: seek professional assessment. Don't diagnose yourself and don't accept any kind of online diagnosis. Don't try to jump in the autistic trend just because it looks cool or makes a world of sense to your problems. Being a real Aspie sucks and I hope you're not one. Regards.

I line up my copic markers according to their colors. Because otherwise it's too much chaos to find the right color. I use a small, wooden wine rack for it. Also I line my books according to their types or topics. But I think NTs do that too.
As a kid I don't much remember lining my toys or anything, actually I was way too messy about it. My grandma and parents always complained that I had my pencils everywhere.

It depends on how mentally stable I am. Depressed, forget it. Manic, forget it. But stable my OCD takes over (and yes, I do have a legitimate OCD diagnosis). I lined up my toys as a child and spaced them out equal distances.

I've been lining up my collections well into adulthood. Right now I have a bunch of Ninja Turtle figures I got out of Kinder Surprise eggs lined up on my desk. They don't stand up too easily, though, so they're laying on their backs.

I like the sight of things that are nicely lined up (however, I'm often too lazy to actually do it these days, except in some cases, see below), and used to make sure my toy cars were all properly parked atop the electric baseboard heater back in the day, facing the same direction, after I was done using them. That's as far as it got though; the cars weren't organised by make, model, size, colour, anything.

I kind of do organise the glassware in my lab by size, putting large containers behind big ones, and try to keep similar items of glassware together (i.e. all Erlenmeyer flasks together, volumetric flasks together, etc.) Chemicals are sorted in similar fashion. This does server a purpose, though. 1) it makes it easier to find what I need fast. 2) it makes it easy to pull out a chemical/piece of glassware without knocking over all the other items in the cabinet. (In fact, my supervisor strongly recommends that bottles be organised that way; he says 'stupidity will cause death!')

Now that I think of it, I should go and reorganise my fumehood/reagent locker properly... it's due for "New Years Cleaning".

Not done it for a while but I used to obsessively organise the files and folders on my computer.

That must be time consuming >_<
I'm used to doing my brackets a certain way, rather than how most editors will auto-format them for you, but I'm not very OCD about it.

I have a nasty habit of giving variables nonsense names and never commenting anything, though =)


I think it's a little too late for most of us here =)

I also play WoW...I have ten max-level alts, and yes, I can spend hours organizing the banks and bags. I also have spreadsheets documenting their profession levels and desired gear upgrades. I used to be obsessive about my DPS (strong preference for ranged DPS classes), which made me a highly effective raider, but once my focus shifted to inventory management I found the most entertaining use of my time was trying to solo essentially everything to complete my transmog sets. Which is funny, because in real life I don't give a darn about clothing. My socks don't even match most of the time - they have to be the same length and thickness, otherwise I can't function until they're off, but the same color isn't important.

I'm also far more verbal online than I am IRL, so I can sit in Orgrimmar and run my mouth in General which does a fine job of meeting my limited need for socialization.

Oddly, since I landed here, I haven't been talking as much in WoW. You fine people are better conversationalists.