I'm still here! Hiding every topic but special needs has helped. Today I bought new clothing, mostly the same style but different patterns because that's what I want to wear! Coooomfy! Though I absolutely adore patterns and a woman at the rack I was taking clothes from went "I wouldn't make curtains out of these patterns never mind clothing" which made me laugh inside.
I am not good with reminders either, I mean they're optional really, whatever can be put off and all that! As for starting things in general, I know I had a few things at play, the self esteem issues which counselling helped with. My last OU module which was after counselling I improved 20 grade points for the assignments! Just from feeling confident, and I was going through a rough pregnancy too. Then there's transitioning from one thing to another, stopping my brain from activity x to y is difficult. Then there's the huge fear of becoming obsessed. I have difficulty starting cleaning because if I do I know I will end up in toothbrush and bleach territory at a basic level and completely rearranging the living spaces on a larger level. Or if I start writing it's all I want to do and so I let everything else slide and get annoyed if I'm interrupted.
I remember the first ever do you have autism test I did, which I came out as NT, had a question on it that said do you like organising CD's, maybe part of a larger question about organising things. I had to answer no, but that's because how can one decide the optimal organisation?! Alphabet is popular, but there's the The issues, which I know you ignore it, bit it makes no sense because The is part of the name! Then maybe by genre, or feelings, or era, or colour! I mean how can one decide on a definitive organisational strategy?! One would be rearranging them forever, easier just to leave them in a pile somewhere.