Going to other people's houses

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So I've been spending the week at my grandma's in California, and basically she's told me aside from this guy who's like a criminal bum, nobody has ever trashed her house worse than me. The sad thing is, I don't even mean to, and I even have tried NOT to because I know I end up doing it unintentionally!

I know she's only trying to help me, but i still feel like such a jerk. I'm sure I do it everywhere I go too. I thought she was different, but she sounds just like my stepdad who used to beat me and is a total military man.

I wish people would just realize that I'm trying, I don't mean to be a bum.

Is there some reason you can't clean up after yourself?

How exactly do you trash her house?

well i mean mostly when i eat i leave dishes etc, and don't even realize. idk, am i freak? a jerk? what is wrong with me?

well, just clean up after yourself. it's not hard to do and i don't see that being aspie is an excuse not to.

I clean up after myself, when I go to other people's houses. That's my way, of thanking them. It's really quite easy.

I sense some judgment. So nobody else has this problem? Am I really alone in this? I always ask if people need help with stuff when I'm over at their place, but I still end up forgetting stuff.

I can only answer from the other point of view. I have a close friens with AS who lives in a bit distance from me, so when he is over he usually stay a week or two. Even the first times he was over (early 20s in age then) I did notice there was some slight more tidying for me to do.

I dont know wether thats because he is male, because he is sloppy or messy or because of AS, but I found myself having alot more patience with it. Its nothing more than plates/dishes, empty soda cans and tripping in his shoes in the strangest of places. I wouldnt want to tell him off for it though. I might be TOO soft on him but I know its a strain for him to travel anywhere and he hates commuting in any way so I figure stress with unknown house/bed/travel/different routines and also having friends closeup (he normally lives alone) might be enough to take his attention away from dishes.

It could also be me being female and completely Monica Geller about house cleaning. People have alot different views on mess/tidy state of a room.

Actually, it does not take Asperger's. My Grandma A, my Grandma B [their real initials, which is rather neat]. Grandma A super neat - my mother who consiudered me a slob was too messy for her. Do NOT try to clean up, you will do it wrong and make a mess. My Grandma B super slob - even my sister [you cannot imagine] is no worse. You spilled the gravy on the rug? Leave it, the dog will get it and it adds color.

Me - one and the same - in one house I am visiting heap of garbage, in the other I am Mt. Ohsofussy.

It is not you - and not really her.. It is the interaction. I go places, I try to pick up after myselgf, I am not a total slob 0- but what is just right in one house is slopdike in the other and obnoxiuously pickjy in the third.

yeah i'm talking about dishes and cans and stuff. i would NEVER actually "trash" someone's place.

Sometimes I leave stuff laying around, but I have gotten better at cleaning up after myself.