I have been known to flip right out about mess - especially clutter where I have just put everything in order again.
It probably seems over the top to the casual observer (e.g. my poor family as I march through the house hollering complaints and ordering everyone to pick up this and that), but I just could never understand how people don't pick up and put away after themselves, keep creating such chaos, not even care, especially when we've discussed it ad nauseam over the years... Visual mess and disorder makes me feel anxious and even physically sick if I'm low, and conversely, putting everything to rights has always been my default way of calming down and getting back into balance.
Now though I wonder if I have been just being a bit overly 'Aspie' about order/structure, and to them unreasonable in the 'typical' world in my expectations. As much as I am embracing my new understanding of myself, a part of me is afraid that once diagnosed people can just dismiss my needs (a tidy house!) and quirks (not wanting to socialise) as just due to my 'condition'. Like sometimes people ascribe women's anger to 'just hormones'... argh!
It probably seems over the top to the casual observer (e.g. my poor family as I march through the house hollering complaints and ordering everyone to pick up this and that), but I just could never understand how people don't pick up and put away after themselves, keep creating such chaos, not even care, especially when we've discussed it ad nauseam over the years... Visual mess and disorder makes me feel anxious and even physically sick if I'm low, and conversely, putting everything to rights has always been my default way of calming down and getting back into balance.
Now though I wonder if I have been just being a bit overly 'Aspie' about order/structure, and to them unreasonable in the 'typical' world in my expectations. As much as I am embracing my new understanding of myself, a part of me is afraid that once diagnosed people can just dismiss my needs (a tidy house!) and quirks (not wanting to socialise) as just due to my 'condition'. Like sometimes people ascribe women's anger to 'just hormones'... argh!