Published on 12, July, 2020
I was wondering today if this is an autistic thing.
I've spent several decades collecting objects and the last decade+ trying to rid myself of the majority.
However, I have given up on the idea of ever being minimalist.
I notice that I remember where everything came from, even, when purchased, which shop in which town.
I try not to be sentimental about things, but sometimes I can't help it.
My mother, who I believe was autistic, was a hoarder in quite an extreme sense.
My autistic friend finds it very hard to part with belongings.
Everything has an association.
Are others like this and are there contributors here who are genuinely minimalistic and don't have an attachment to things?
I'm buried in stuff. I have weird old random stuff. Know everything about all of it, or am keeping it TO find out about it. Everything has multiple potential uses in my world.
I'm like a Womble - not eBay / Amazon type. I assimilate stuff, rather than purposefully purchase it.
yeah, sorry the eBay bit ties into the nostalgia and recovery of things I wished I'd actually kept hold of. they're generally things I've had at some point and let go of. it's very heavily tied into nostalgia.
Number said:Womble
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