Do you like lists?

[Progster]

Do you like lists? If so, what sort of lists? Do you like making lists, or reading them, or both? Is it an ASD thing to like lists? Here's a list of the reasons why I like lists:

1. I find it much easier to read information if presented as a lost, rather than a text.

2. I have a preference for lists going down the page, rather than across.

3. It helps me to organize my thoughts abd prioritise if I make a list.

4. It helps me to remember information if I make a list.

5. I have a thing with data/stats/numbers, watching them decrease or increase.

6. Lists are fun. I love reading top ten lists, statistics, sites or blogs with lists of things in categories. I like using sites or apps that allow you to create your own lists, or which generate lists and statistics from the data you put in, like a data base, for example RYM or Last.fm.

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

Similass point 3, abd

 

[Progster]

Similass point 3, abd

Opps, my badlass

 

[Progster]

Similass point 3, abd

Lol. Actually, my first thought was that I should have written abc, not abd!!

Anyway, back to the question: Do you like lists?

 

[LucyPurrs]

Yup, especially to shop for groceries and to do lists. Now if I'd only follow them ,LOL.

 

[tree]

Yes, I like lists.

Lists are useful.

I notice that when I am reading, I count
how many items are listed and if there are
as many as 5 or 7, I think....
"Maybe I could make something with this."

Something being, a random generator.

Also, naturally, I make a list of things I need
to get or do. But it's lists for combining ideas
that I really enjoy.

 

[Major Tom]

I like lists, they are necessary to me, but I am terrible at making them. My wife (kindly) lists things I need to do daily, and also keeps a detailed calendar for me to look at, so I don't have any unwelcomed surprises.

 

[Streetwise]

i'm the same for numbers 1 to 4 not number five I'm too stressed
Loved seeing Nigella Lawson tick off her Christmas to do list.
problem I have is I forget to look at it

 

[Gritches]

I like to make lists for different reasons. Shopping lists so I don't forget, of course, but there's an even more powerful type of list for me: The Breakdown.

You can use a list to break down a really big, overwhelming, intimidating task into small, manageable chunks and knock it out bit-by-bit. I have to do this all the time at work.

 

[Progster]

I like to make lists for different reasons. Shopping lists so I don't forget, of course, but there's an even more powerful type of list for me: The Breakdown.

You can use a list to break down a really big, overwhelming, intimidating task into small, manageable chunks and knock it out bit-by-bit. I have to do this all the time at work.

Yes, I should add this to my list of why lists are useful, that's a very good coping strategy, I do this, too.

 

[Suzanne]

If I have a lot to do in a day, I make a text list in my memo and then, delete each one that I have completed and I can only do it running down, rather than across as that would confuse me.

If that list was not created, then I would not get all the work done, so it helps to motivate me, as I tend to get so overwhelmed that I end up doing nothing and that is just awful.

 

[Gracey]

For a trip to the shop yes. I can get so wired and anxious my memory doesn’t work.
(And I’m not scurrying all the way to the shop to forget why I made the trip in the first place)

I did stop making lists quite a while ago.
Completing every single task was becoming an obsession/addiction?
Not healthy.

I try to jot down brief notes if I know I’m going into a stressy sort of situation.
Helpful prompts for when memory goes offline.

 

[tlc]

Yes. Because once a topic starts being expanded on, it seems like there could be no end when my brain runs wild. So I keep it quick and simple in the first place.

I like lists especially when they're sortable. But I can do that with an old school cut and paste too.

 

[Progster]

Thank you for your replies.

I think I like lists because they help me sort things out in my mind, and they make a task less daunting because I can take each thing one at a time.

Do you have a preference for how lists are organised, i.e. a list going from left to right:

Oranges, apples, pears, grapes.

Or going from top to bottom?

Oranges
apples
pears
grapes.

 

[tlc]

Top to bottom. Otherwise it just reads like a paragraph. Same problem when people write math problems left to right, that need to be stacked when doing it longhand.

 

[Progster]

Top to bottom. Otherwise it just reads like a paragraph. Same problem when people write math problems left to right, that need to be stacked when doing it longhand.

I'm the same. For some reason that I can't fathom, when I was at the school, I hated it when the student wrote along a line rather than down the page. I insisted that they wrote down the page, but they often didn't want to. I'm not sure why I feel this way. I coped with it by finding a justification for writing across the page that was acceptable to me; that they want to save space and paper. Then I coud accept it. Otherwise it would drive me crazy.

Another thing that drove me crazy was when they wrote in bright-coloured ink, but that's another story.

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

3. It helps me to organize my thoughts abd prioritise if I make a list.

4. It helps me to remember information if I make a list.

I use google inbox to make reminders.

So in a way that's a list scattered through time.

Reminders appear by location
Weekly, monthly,yearly
Or are reset to the next time things need to be done after completion.

I usually end up setting several reminders for the same thing and on the due day
I get to see how bad my memory is.

 

[pax]

Yes and graphs. Why isn't this a poll?

 

[Progster]

Yes and graphs. Why isn't this a poll?

Good point. I've never made a poll before, I'm not sure how to do it. I should try to do that next time, rather than just listing points.

 

[abby normal]

lists help keep my life in order. I don't know what i'd do without them. they are my "brains on paper."