“Running Late… Again! On Time Blindness and My ADHD Brain”

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“I realized how bad my sense of time was when it became a repeated conversation in our house for me to say, ‘It’ll take about five minutes to get there.’ Then my husband would look at me funny and say ‘…or closer to 20 minutes,’ and he’d always be right.”

Hyperfocus often consumes so much time that I can forget to eat, use the bathroom, or even stand up and move around to ward off stiffnessand brought back into the world. I also set three alarms leading up to the time I absolutely must leave my house, reminding me that I must leave in 15, 10, and 5 minutes.” —It takes a conscious effort not to succumb to the magical thinking that a week’s worth of tasks can be fit into one day— more deadlines and appointments than I can count.

. To be on time, I must plan out every task I need to complete beforehand, blocking each task for a specific amount of time. Then I continuously check my list and time. It is exhausting! Still, more work days end with my not accomplishing anything I had planned due to not keeping continuous tabs on time.” —“To me, something that happened three days ago feels like it was a week ago, or something that happened one week ago feels like it was one month ago.

The day-to-day passing of time is easier for me to have a concept of because I have clocks everywhere“My family has threatened to tell me to meet them places a half an hour earlier than needed to get me there on time. I laugh at it because there isn’t much else to do. It’s also hard becausejust to get there on time. I hate that my internal clock is so messed up that I look like I can’t do things in a timely manner.

I understand how disrespectful it is to take up people’s time and not be available at work when I’m needed, but it’s not a conscious choice

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