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Are you Organised or are you Simon?

Steven
  1. (Yes, it's another waste-of-time thread, as I shy away from depressing thoughts)

Are you Organised or Disorganised?

My 'diet' is madness. I'm so disorganised, and can't make decisions easily, that even this uncomplicated list of available food items presents many dilemmas:

Mixed veg (bowl)

2 satsumas

Pack of apple slices

Fat-free, sugar-free, yoghurt-free, born-three yoghurt 

I don't know whether to eat all, some, or none in a day. Or in which order. And I panic, unnecessarily, that I might cross the dreaded threshold of over 300 calories. So, arranging a day's menu is an adventure in anarchy, indecision and confusion. I don't even need to diet...

I always thought that autists were very controlled people who organised their activities as much as possible. Yet, despite my routine anarchy, my pre-assessment application form apparently contained more red flags than Stalin's shed.

*Anyway, are you organised or disorganised in your daily life?*

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  • I'm extremely organised to the point where it's overwhelming. To give you an example: all my food is arranged by expiration date and I eat everything in order of first to expire to last to expire - this is to make sure everything I buy gets eaten and nothing gets forgotten in the back of a cupboard to expire. This is one example, but I live my whole life like this. And somehow I still have major anxiety about not being organised "enough" and I'm always convinced I'm going to forget something important. I understand why I was diagnosed with OCD before eventually being diagnosed with autism Laughing

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  • I'm extremely organised to the point where it's overwhelming. To give you an example: all my food is arranged by expiration date and I eat everything in order of first to expire to last to expire - this is to make sure everything I buy gets eaten and nothing gets forgotten in the back of a cupboard to expire. This is one example, but I live my whole life like this. And somehow I still have major anxiety about not being organised "enough" and I'm always convinced I'm going to forget something important. I understand why I was diagnosed with OCD before eventually being diagnosed with autism Laughing

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