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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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  • Short answer (for now) to prove that I can occasionally be concise when I, er, organise myself: both. In different ways.

    I’m curious about how the 300 calorie threshold came to be. Why that number? I’m not judging, just trying to understand. I have similar things where i feel unsettled if I do a dreaded thing, but bizarrely I can’t recall some of the origin stories for why. One that will make me sound deranged (but why not?): if I’m ever forced to write using a blue pen, I can’t relax until Ive tracked down and written something with a black one. Even if that’s just my name or a random word or a question mark - just something. Then I can say ‘thank goodness  it is over’. I’ve no idea how that got started I’ve been like it forever. Anyway, I feel I’ve drifted off the point. 

    And so much for conciseness after all. 

  • in reply to Shardovan

    I’d be very easy to torture with that information. ‘Get the blue pen’ ‘Alright, I’ll tell you everything! But can I write my coerced confession in black please?’ 

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