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Are people with ASC always neat and organised

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I told my Mum that my husband believed he has Autism and my Mum said he can’t have as he’s disorganised and untidy, people with Autism are neat organised and methodical. Is this the case that people with ASC are neat, organised and methodical?

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  • Beware anyone who makes definitive statements about all autistic people, they will invariably be wrong. Autism is a spectrum, so a wide variety of behaviours are found among autists, some will be contradictory. Personally, I like things to be neat and tidy, but in practice I am disinclined to clear up other family member's mess, so the house remains horribly untidy. 

  • in reply to Martin

    I also have a messy family and it takes all my self-control not to lose it all the time. What aggravates me more is that there was a period when my wife suffered from anxiety, one of the symptoms of that was over-excessive cleaning of the house to distract her. My solution to this was to just accept it and do it for her in the hope of keeping her calmer. Now she is better but, as is one of my issues, I'm stuck in these old habits and routines so I still think I need to keep up with this level of cleanliness - which infuriates me when everyone else is now so relaxed about how the house has stuff literally everywhere!  

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  • in reply to Martin

    I also have a messy family and it takes all my self-control not to lose it all the time. What aggravates me more is that there was a period when my wife suffered from anxiety, one of the symptoms of that was over-excessive cleaning of the house to distract her. My solution to this was to just accept it and do it for her in the hope of keeping her calmer. Now she is better but, as is one of my issues, I'm stuck in these old habits and routines so I still think I need to keep up with this level of cleanliness - which infuriates me when everyone else is now so relaxed about how the house has stuff literally everywhere!  

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