#time-blindness — Public Fediverse posts
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One of the weird things about #ADHD is how you relate to #time.
I don't just mean #TimeBlindness, #procrastination, being late, and other typical things.
I have an insane long-term memory, can recall and categorize events by year, as long as they were at least a decade ago. But last week?
No idea.Tomorrow? What the heck is tomorrow? No idea, whatsoever. No plans, other than things I need to do for work.
Laundry? Housework? I do those things when I have to, I never schedule them in my head in the least.
But here's another one:
My #FloofDaughter (#cat) #Mira has been growing. I never quite knew her age: at the city shelter, they said they thought she was 2 years old (judged based on the teeth), but she was quite small when I first got her, and she's a very sizeable cat, now.
But I could really only tell when she'd grown when comparing her to previous pictures, or by feeling her weight, or noticing things like how tall she stood when she was on my lap. But just by looking at her, I could barely tell the difference.
My aunt had been telling me that she had been growing for the past few months, but I said it wasn't possible, that I've had her for nearly 2 years, and I didn't think she was all that young when I first got her.
But when I got adopted by #FloofSon #Sunny (who's about three months old), I looked at Mira, and my eyes bugged out! Is that really Mira? Did someone replace my cat with a Racoon? She's suddenly HUGE to me.
When did she grow this much? I have no idea. It's like she grew by 25% overnight. Some of that might be due to being annoyed at having another cat in the house now (poofy fur), some of it might be due to overfeeding (she stays with my aunt most of the time, and she's not as measured with feeding as I am), but either way, she looks like a pretty big cat to me, suddenly.
The funny thing is that I weighed her, and I don't think she's actually any heavier. Maybe a pound, max. 🤷♂️
(I will say that the method of weighing is very imprecise, as I'm stepping onto a scale while holding her, then stepping off, letting her go, then stepping on again. I'm also comparing weights made by two different scales)
#ThisCouldHaveBeenABlogPost, really ;)
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One of the weird things about #ADHD is how you relate to #time.
I don't just mean #TimeBlindness, #procrastination, being late, and other typical things.
I have an insane long-term memory, can recall and categorize events by year, as long as they were at least a decade ago. But last week?
No idea.Tomorrow? What the heck is tomorrow? No idea, whatsoever. No plans, other than things I need to do for work.
Laundry? Housework? I do those things when I have to, I never schedule them in my head in the least.
But here's another one:
My #FloofDaughter (#cat) #Mira has been growing. I never quite knew her age: at the city shelter, they said they thought she was 2 years old (judged based on the teeth), but she was quite small when I first got her, and she's a very sizeable cat, now.
But I could really only tell when she'd grown when comparing her to previous pictures, or by feeling her weight, or noticing things like how tall she stood when she was on my lap. But just by looking at her, I could barely tell the difference.
My aunt had been telling me that she had been growing for the past few months, but I said it wasn't possible, that I've had her for nearly 2 years, and I didn't think she was all that young when I first got her.
But when I got adopted by #FloofSon #Sunny (who's about three months old), I looked at Mira, and my eyes bugged out! Is that really Mira? Did someone replace my cat with a Racoon? She's suddenly HUGE to me.
When did she grow this much? I have no idea. It's like she grew by 25% overnight. Some of that might be due to being annoyed at having another cat in the house now (poofy fur), some of it might be due to overfeeding (she stays with my aunt most of the time, and she's not as measured with feeding as I am), but either way, she looks like a pretty big cat to me, suddenly.
The funny thing is that I weighed her, and I don't think she's actually any heavier. Maybe a pound, max. 🤷♂️
(I will say that the method of weighing is very imprecise, as I'm stepping onto a scale while holding her, then stepping off, letting her go, then stepping on again. I'm also comparing weights made by two different scales)
#ThisCouldHaveBeenABlogPost, really ;)
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ADHD time blindness isn't bad planning.
Your brain's internal clock is neurologically different.
Time doesn't exist until it's already gone.
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ADHD time blindness isn't bad planning.
Your brain's internal clock is neurologically different.
Time doesn't exist until it's already gone.
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You sit down 'for ten minutes' and three hours vanish.
A deadline a fortnight off feels fine until it's suddenly tonight.
That's time blindness - a real difficulty sensing the passage of time and estimating how long things take, common in ADHD.
It isn't laziness, and 'just plan better' assumes a brain that feels time passing.
We've written about what genuinely helps: https://tslr.to/eYC8nw
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You sit down 'for ten minutes' and three hours vanish.
A deadline a fortnight off feels fine until it's suddenly tonight.
That's time blindness - a real difficulty sensing the passage of time and estimating how long things take, common in ADHD.
It isn't laziness, and 'just plan better' assumes a brain that feels time passing.
We've written about what genuinely helps: https://tslr.to/eYC8nw
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ADHD is not a focus problem.
#adhd #timeblindness -
You do not lack discipline. The brain processes time differently.
Digital clocks fail to translate abstract numbers into intuitive blocks. Build visual supports. Map time with physical shapes and analog timers.
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You do not lack discipline. The brain processes time differently.
Digital clocks fail to translate abstract numbers into intuitive blocks. Build visual supports. Map time with physical shapes and analog timers.
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Time is more than a clock. It is neurology.
ADHD often causes time blindness. The concept of time simply splits into "now" versus "not now."
Autistic individuals face autistic inertia. Changing tasks creates intense friction.
Which do you experience?
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Time is more than a clock. It is neurology.
ADHD often causes time blindness. The concept of time simply splits into "now" versus "not now."
Autistic individuals face autistic inertia. Changing tasks creates intense friction.
Which do you experience?
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ADHD time blindness is neurological. It isn't carelessness.
Prefrontal cortex differences make your internal clock struggle to track linear time. The ADHD brain recognizes only two states. "Now" and "Not Now."
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I’m not diagnosed (yet) but I’ve recently started to suspect I have ADHD due to “time blindness” which is most noticeable when I experience hyper-focus and time loss.
Anyone have experience with this?
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I’m not diagnosed (yet) but I’ve recently started to suspect I have ADHD due to “time blindness” which is most noticeable when I experience hyper-focus and time loss.
Anyone have experience with this?
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I suffer from a variant of this, events sneak up on me, I need reminders, though I haven't come up with a good system, holidays, birthdays, etc often escape me unless I make a conscientious effort to keep track of them. On the other hand I do fine on small scale, need to be somewhere by 10? Sure, I'll prolly be early as I always pad things to insure I won't be late. Lots of things to do today? Yep, easy-peasy, we got this.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/time-blindness-adhd_l_69b981c5e4b09a39145edc75
#Life #••Life #Time-Blindness #Mental-Health -
I suffer from a variant of this, events sneak up on me, I need reminders, though I haven't come up with a good system, holidays, birthdays, etc often escape me unless I make a conscientious effort to keep track of them. On the other hand I do fine on small scale, need to be somewhere by 10? Sure, I'll prolly be early as I always pad things to insure I won't be late. Lots of things to do today? Yep, easy-peasy, we got this.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/time-blindness-adhd_l_69b981c5e4b09a39145edc75
#Life #••Life #Time-Blindness #Mental-Health -
The automation fires at -60, -30, -15, and -5 minutes before each event.
Why four offsets instead of one?
Because ADHD time isn't linear.
⏰ 1 hour out = abstract concept
⏰ 15 minutes = okay this is happening
⏰ 5 minutes = body, we are LEAVING
It also speaks the event name — not just "something is starting soon."
Context is the whole point.
#ADHD #TimeBlindness #HomeAutomation -
The automation fires at -60, -30, -15, and -5 minutes before each event.
Why four offsets instead of one?
Because ADHD time isn't linear.
⏰ 1 hour out = abstract concept
⏰ 15 minutes = okay this is happening
⏰ 5 minutes = body, we are LEAVING
It also speaks the event name — not just "something is starting soon."
Context is the whole point.
#ADHD #TimeBlindness #HomeAutomation -
Audra: “So, there are two words for ‘now’ in Ukrainian: зараз and тепер. And I have never thought of the word зараз as now, I always had it in my head that it meant soon… And now I’m wondering if this explains…”
Me: “… why you’re always late?”
Audra: “I guess… I think it’s actually a disconnect. Like, you ask if I’m on the way and you think I mean now, but I don’t. I actually mean soon.”
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Audra: “So, there are two words for ‘now’ in Ukrainian: зараз and тепер. And I have never thought of the word зараз as now, I always had it in my head that it meant soon… And now I’m wondering if this explains…”
Me: “… why you’re always late?”
Audra: “I guess… I think it’s actually a disconnect. Like, you ask if I’m on the way and you think I mean now, but I don’t. I actually mean soon.”
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The problem wasn’t planning.It was feeling time pass.
2:30 PM means nothing to my brain.
“15 minutes until Project Sync” = actionable.So I built countdown announcements at:
• ⏰ 1 hour
• ⏰ 30 minutes
• ⏰ 15 minutes
• ⏰ 5 minutes -
"If we leave at around 5 we can go get food before the show".
5:01pm, I'm fully dressed and made-up, tickets downloaded to my phone..... and they're in the shower.
Quick take-out from the little Bao place instead of the sit-down for ramen that I'd been thinking of, then. Good thing there's lots of options between home and the venue.
The joys of a partner with severe time-blindness to accompany their ADHD.
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"If we leave at around 5 we can go get food before the show".
5:01pm, I'm fully dressed and made-up, tickets downloaded to my phone..... and they're in the shower.
Quick take-out from the little Bao place instead of the sit-down for ramen that I'd been thinking of, then. Good thing there's lots of options between home and the venue.
The joys of a partner with severe time-blindness to accompany their ADHD.
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Polychronic and monochronic modes of time perception and time management:
#neurodiversity #timemanagement #earlybird #nightowl #neurodivergence #adhd #presentmoment #timeline #punctuality #TimeBlind #late #ontime #time #audhd #timeblindness #deadlines #culture #diversityandinclusion #dei #neurodiversidad #perception #neurodivergent #Timeperception
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Really struggling with time management. My day can really get eaten up by time spent transitioning from one thing to another or trying to make decisions.
It leaves me with a constant sense of being rushed and pressed for time.
Trying to take note about where time goes exactly. Certain things eat up a lot more time than I realize and then, alternately, I will put off doing some very quick thing because I think it will take a much longer time.
Intention seems like a possible way to ward against this, but I am not always able to focus my mind enough to really see clearly what I want or need to do…
It seems and feels literally crazy not to be able to think and act in the way that I want to.
:bunhdidle: #audhd #timeblindness
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An insight into ADHD's time blindness.
https://psychcentral.com/adhd/cutting-down-on-chronic-lateness-for-adults-with-adhd
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An insight into ADHD's time blindness.
https://psychcentral.com/adhd/cutting-down-on-chronic-lateness-for-adults-with-adhd
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It could just be me, but I have to set alarms and reminders on my watch because I will forget that I have food being made in the air fryer or food left out to defrost. #adhd #timeblindness #whatistime
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It could just be me, but I have to set alarms and reminders on my watch because I will forget that I have food being made in the air fryer or food left out to defrost. #adhd #timeblindness #whatistime
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#ADHD moment 9,975,271: I looked at my watch, saw I had 5 minutes u til my scheduled lunch, somehow got so distracted I ended up pulling books to withdraw for an hour and 20 minutes, then realized what time it was when my cart was overflowing with books and I could barely push it back to my desk. #HyperFocus #TimeBlindness
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#ADHD moment 9,975,271: I looked at my watch, saw I had 5 minutes u til my scheduled lunch, somehow got so distracted I ended up pulling books to withdraw for an hour and 20 minutes, then realized what time it was when my cart was overflowing with books and I could barely push it back to my desk. #HyperFocus #TimeBlindness
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“Time flies when you’re having fun.” Or a specific kind of miserable.
Brought to you by ADHD and that last 20% of a coding task that takes 80% of the time because it should have just worked.
#ADHD #TimeBlindness #frustration #programming -
“Time flies when you’re having fun.” Or a specific kind of miserable.
Brought to you by ADHD and that last 20% of a coding task that takes 80% of the time because it should have just worked.
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CW: long post about ADHD time blindness
This really shouldn't need to be said, but time blindness as is common with ADHD isn't a sign that someone is lying.
I can't reliably place events into years, months, days. I compensate for this by referring to records or specific memorized years of great importance, and then doing calculations based on that.
For example:
- I remember that I was in the class of 2011. Therefore, I was a senior in 2010–2011, a junior in 2009–2010, a sophomore in 2008–2009, and a freshman in 2007–2008. The first iPhone came out when I was a freshman, based on the appearance of my Japanese class I remember from the time. Therefore, the first iPhone came out in 2007.
- I first used a computer running Windows 3.1 when I was 2. I was born in 1993. Therefore, I must have first used a computer in 1995.
- I started HRT when I was working at Taco Bell, kind of during the second half of my employment there, during a time when it was snowy, but snow was melting. My resumé shows that I worked there from 2015 to 2016. Therefore, I must have started HRT sometime in early 2016. I was born in August, 1993. Therefore, I must have been 22 at the time.
I have to do things like this every time, unless a specific date comes up so often that it becomes one of those extremely important dates. It's generally an effective strategy for dealing with my time blindness, but sometimes I have no reference date to use, or I wrongly think I have a reference because of incomplete data that doesn't have enough context to show me that it doesn't work as a reference.
So referencing dates and showing that I got some dates wrong in something I said does not demonstrate lying on my part, and it is, in fact, ableist to assume that it is. I can generally accurately tell you which event came first. But I'm not going to intrinsically notice any particular difference between two year numbers so I can place everything on a timeline. As great of a superpower as that would be, I just can't.
That means I'm going to get dates wrong often, and that needs to be ok, because it just isn't realistic for me to obsessively journal every single insignificant detail of my life and keep those detailed records for all time. It would be, in fact, incredibly unhealthy to do so.
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Hilarity ensues as my AuDHD #hyperfocus then directed me to start writing a blog on… you guessed it:
Hyperfocus - one of the #Neurodiverse superpowers.
Of course, it has downsides like #TimeBlindness. Case in point it is almost 2AM here. I am exhausted. May the passion return tomorrow.
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Hilarity ensues as my AuDHD #hyperfocus then directed me to start writing a blog on… you guessed it:
Hyperfocus - one of the #Neurodiverse superpowers.
Of course, it has downsides like #TimeBlindness. Case in point it is almost 2AM here. I am exhausted. May the passion return tomorrow.
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#adhd friends: One of my adhd female friends asked for effective strategies for scheduling and #TimeBlindness due to being chronically late. If anyone has any great tips or resources, let me know. This has become a much less frequent issue for me now that my schedule and commitments have all drastically reduced.
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#adhd friends: One of my adhd female friends asked for effective strategies for scheduling and #TimeBlindness due to being chronically late. If anyone has any great tips or resources, let me know. This has become a much less frequent issue for me now that my schedule and commitments have all drastically reduced.
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ADHDers!
I just discovered an app (FREE. WITH NO ADS) that's amazing for timekeeping your tasks!It's called Clockify.
You also get proper graphs/stats of how you spend your time as you use it more. I really hope this sticks for me because it's been great :artaww: -
ADHDers!
I just discovered an app (FREE. WITH NO ADS) that's amazing for timekeeping your tasks!It's called Clockify.
You also get proper graphs/stats of how you spend your time as you use it more. I really hope this sticks for me because it's been great :artaww: -
My thinking and habits are so cluttered and inconsistent it’s not funny anymore. I keep losing my sense of what I need to do. My intrinsic priorities keep on shifting.
I’m just tired of constantly dreaming and not taking major action. I’ve been dreaming about my future for years, yet I often don’t feel present. I impatiently want to make those dreams a reality quickly, while I ignore what I can do right now.
Being just a dreamer is really sad. (◞‸◟)
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Americans:
IT'S PI DAY!Me, with my audhd time sense:
31st April? Sounds about right!#PiDay #PieDay #audhd #autism #adhd #TimeBlind #TimeBlindness
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Americans:
IT'S PI DAY!Me, with my audhd time sense:
31st April? Sounds about right!#PiDay #PieDay #audhd #autism #adhd #TimeBlind #TimeBlindness
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My ADHD is so bad I’ll pause a game to look up ingredient combos for potions on my phone and get distracted and spend an hour and a half scrolling Mastodon, Instagram, and watching a #MountainRugCleaning video on YouTube before I realize my PS5 has shut down and I forgot to save.
Blork. 😫😣