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Post by xievajohnson on May 12, 2010 10:45:00 GMT -5
I just heard the expression "clutter blind", so I decided to share. I'm definitely blind to my own clutter. I like the way the term kinda sounds like "color blind", gives it a little legitimacy.  |
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Post by CourageouslyLion SeeksSerenity on May 12, 2010 18:02:54 GMT -5
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Thanks for posting this!
I tend to be "clutter blind", too.
For years, I could not "see" or the mess.
And I didn't care about seeing it.
One of my ex-boyfriends used to say I was "ambivilous" (He coined a word to combine ambivalent and oblivious).
He meant that I was oblivious to (blind to, unaware of) the chaos I was creating ....
... and then, if someone pointed it out, I was ambivalent about (fuzzy about, made half-hearted promises about) cleaning it up.
In other words, I "didn't know and didn't care".
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Post by CourageouslyLion SeeksSerenity on May 12, 2010 18:16:38 GMT -5
I just heard the expression "clutter blind", so I decided to share. I'm definitely blind to my own clutter.
I like the way the term kinda sounds like "color blind", gives it a little legitimacy. Oh .... so you mean that it's like our brains literally CANNOT see the clutter? Yeah. True. But from being active at this forum, I am TRAINING myself to see the clutter.
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Post by messymimi on May 12, 2010 18:42:47 GMT -5
Thanks for introducing me to this term, Xieva!
CL, truly red/green color blind people have to train themselves to judge when a light is red or green, and I like the idea that we have to train ourselves to "see" what is so obvious to others in a similar way.
This also conjures up the idea of seeing through the eyes of others, and could go very deep.
messymimi
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Post by fluffernut - now Jannie on May 14, 2010 7:54:35 GMT -5
I know what you mean. Some days I jforce myself to open my eyes and tell myself "Just put away anything you see that doesn't belong here."
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Post by howardsgirlfriend on May 14, 2010 14:29:32 GMT -5
My DH likes butter. He's also dyslexic. I could say he's "butter-clined."  |
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Post by houseworkhater on May 14, 2010 16:36:26 GMT -5
I am the opposite -- I see all the clutter, and it stresses me out so badly, yet for so long I was paralyzed. Love you all and this board for that!
PS - Love all the new words above!
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