About "lining up ones toys".

[conuly]

This is a classic part of the AS diagnosis, lining up your toys and suchlike instead of playing with them "appropriately" (whatever THAT means). But I wonder, does it count if you were organizing your toys within the context of an internal narrative? So you weren't just putting them in groups for the sake of putting them in groups, there was some reason outside of the need for neatness that they were being organized? I used to do that, organizing my crayons, or barbies, or mlps. Somebody who wasn't me might've thought I was just sorting them by color, then size, then color AND size, then hairstyle... but I had a reason for that, something that made sense to those being sorted (or did to them in my mind, which is what counts).

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[georgiapeachy.livejournal.com]

With paper dolls I would sort them by color, time period, name, skin color- basically every variable possible. The weird thing is I never played paper dolls in a traditional way, I just sorted them...
With action figures I'd sort them before my sister and I played with them, for the purpose we could set up towns/planets etc. perfectly, at least that sort of had a purpose.