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Listmaking

Keith

Keith

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For fifteen years one of my habits is making lists of random stuff, mostly fantasy lists of "hall of fame predictions" or "schedules for Boomerang 1990s or TV Land 1960s". It coincides with my categorization obsession in that I like to list what shows would be on Boomerang 1990s on Mondays (Men in Black the Series, Godzilla, Back to the Future, All Dogs Go to Heaven), Tuesdays (Super Secret Secret Squirrel, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries), etc. I guess it's just something I do when bored or restless, although it did tend to happen in class a lot.
 
Hi
My first post on the site...
Just been diagnosed yesterday


I LOVE making lists

Lists on things to do
Conversation topics
Football (my obsession) events
Movie lists
Favourite characters
Favourite books
Assignment topics
Etc.

And I like to comply my own stats as well
 
Lists and notes are how I survive just about anything and everything that requires organization and/or memory.

The bad thing is I clutter up everything I could possibly make a list or notes in with old forgotten docs. My laptop, my cell phone, my cloud storage, any notebooks I have, etc. I'm always drowning in a sea of information and too paranoid about losing something I'll need later to clean it all out.
 
Oh I love my lists! Ever since I've had a laptop I've been making lists for things like stuff I want to buy, things to do, passwords, etc. I also love the outline format for taking notes and organizing thoughts. But that's pretty much like a list with a sense of hierarchy.
Right now I have an ongoing list of animals I learn about that I think are really cool, and my mom will post birds and other animals on my facebook wall to add to it. :P Lists are just really cool, you'd think I'd have my stuff together with all the lists I make, but alas.
 
I keep a nice organized binder for things like lists of passwords and usernames. Never keep them on my drive...encrypted or otherwise.
 
Woah there's people who obsess over lists as much as i do! After my parents went haywire on me a year or so ago, i was terrified of them finding out how i didn't just magically get better in fact i got way worse - depresssion, anxiety, selfharm - and being kicked out like they said i'd be. In order to deal with that, or at least try to, i dealt with my fear of not bein able to support myself by making lists. I would calculate my projected earnings down to the half hour, hell fifteen minutes even, and then go through different area providers and look up how much they'd cost. The worst one though was going through the weekly sales ads and figuring out how i'd feed myself on as cheap a budget as possible. When the idea came up that i'm most likely high functioning autistic, that's since died down a bit because they became a little more accepting of me. Not much though, they still threatened to kick me out if i didn't get back in college on a monthly basis. But i'm back in school now and they love me again. Yeah i have huge issues with accomplishment based love now, its hell. But getting back on subject, on a more day to day basis i make categorized, detailed to do lists everyday with what i have to do. Even perusing on my laptop i'll always have one or two notepad lists open. Like right now, i'm starting a new game on pokemon soulsilver so of course i have to make a list of the team i want. I obssessively plan and list everything, and i'm not totally sure why i guess it just makes everything more predictable, more known and less anxiety producing. But why i do it even with fanfics and video games i have no idea.
 
Making list and collecting data are my middle names. That is I have a bunch of external hard drives and flash drives with the last 2 being 32GB and 64GB.
 
I make lists of things to do, then re-list things over and over and over; the more stressed I am the more lists I make. I never get anything actually done! My boss finds it pretty exasperating.... Any I get through a lot of post-its.
 
muddled said:
I make lists of things to do, then re-list things over and over and over; the more stressed I am the more lists I make. I never get anything actually done! My boss finds it pretty exasperating.... Any I get through a lot of post-its.
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Same, lists are comforting but they only seem to help marginally. I guess they're easier (and more fun) to make than to actually implement, haha.
 
I'm always making lists of things such as bird species, G1 Transformers, any books I own, composers (birth date etc.) and just about anything else that grabs my fancy, I've always been good at hunting down information. When I was diagnosed this was the first thing the psychiatrist zeroed in on (he said it is a very common trait among aspies).
 
I never really liked making lists while I was younger but now I find great joy in it. I make lists for work; dates on products that are about to expire, lists of things that need to be bought. I pride myself in how thurough these lists are! I wish I could figure out a way to make a living just making lists.
 
Omg I've found the king of all note taking apps... It's even better than Evernote (though Evernote is still the most awesome for keeping my study notes organized). Google Keep. It can make a note, list, or voice memo and posts them all on a virtual board, and can set reminders for them by date OR by location (so when you're in a certain location you get reminded of the corresponding note). If it had Google calendar and now rolled into it, it'd be absolutely perfect. Now is another great app but it's not really list related (though helps with organization) and is kind of hard to explain.

Organization/categorization junkies though will love Evernote for its very sophisticated tagging, nesting, and notebook system.
 
I have a list of books to be released organised by author and then the same list but organised by release date. I also have lists of Comic Book movies, Sci-Fi movies, etc.
 
I´m always making lists in my head. Like, for example, "on how many movies have I seen a certain actor?". or "all the names I can think with the latter A", "all the cartoons I can name", and many other things. Is just a way of keeping my mind focused on something. I always thought that sounded like an autistic trait and some years ago I asked the specialis I was seeing and she sayed that it was, so I was wondering if this sounds familiar to any of you.
 
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