Sure @bookworm4. She keeps everything the comes into contact with. Wrapping of toys, take away coffee cups, napkins, straws. Anything she comes into contact with. No one can touch these thinks. These aren’t categorised or organised, they are just dumped in certain areas (littered around the house). Touching them would trigger a meltdown. She is obsessive about her ‘stuff’. I’d suggest that perhaps hoarding in adults isn’t limited to what you can buy, just what you can acquire. It’s tough to stop her picking stuff up off the streets to keep. Say broken hair clips etc.
Her room is very bad and everything is just dropped to the ground. We moved her into the box room from sharing as under her bed was full, the entire room is littered with ‘stuff’ up to the level of her bed.
At certain times we are able to come in her room, we may not be allowed to touch her bed or sheets. If things are moved the wrong way, she may compeletely abandon her room and sleep on the hallway floor, without covering or pullows for nothings on end. Cahms are no help here, just no help at all. We work very slowly and have reduced a knee deep pile to an ankle deep pile. So imagine cess pit of lol doll wrappings, Sainsbury’s Lego card, toys, pens, clothes, pencils. This is stuff she is attached to. As an autistic child, she usually doesn’t ‘play’ with her toys, just hoards.
I am very fearful of how this progresses into adulthood.