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?
"Autistic Inertia" borrows a basic law of physics.
A body at rest stays at rest. One in motion stays in motion.
Starting a task demands massive executive energy. Stopping requires the exact same effort. Task switching physically exhausts you.
More background info here, in the first-ever research article on #AutisticInertia, also by her: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.631596/full
The survey for my partner's PhD research on #AutisticInertia has already done quite well, although there have been no new responses in the last couple of weeks.
It closes at the end of tomorrow (31st March), so if you would like to contribute your experiences to this research, here's your chance; click the link to get started! https://www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_bJl0HjTghBcg71Y
(The "do it now principle" sometimes works for some of us who experience inertia...)
There was a morning as I distinctly remember waking up & it being morning.
Somewhere in between get up, sorting my hair, moisturising, finally fixing a not functioning pCloud app on the PC & going to sort breakfast it changed to being the afternoon.
This is how my plans for my days just get shrunk down & the guilt trip that I now don't have the time to do half my things is a spoon (& probably dice) thief.
Will keep plugging away at somehow being more useful in the AM but it's going to take some time.
1 thing I've been working really hard on is being more #neurotypical with #work
Not in the socializing watercooler way because #Autism says f that noise
More in the frequent, mindless scrolling the internet way so I'm not working at 150% for 9 hours straight
So far I'm still working at 150% but sometimes I remember to make food during these forced breaks. Occasionally I even remember to eat it before the end of the day.
Just realized why I can't do #yoga even though I want & need to -
because I found the right 1 & it worked
Between #Burnout #alexithymia #Perimenopause and being pretty much disconnected from my body all the time, yoga is almost like a guided #meltdown
I know it's good & I crave those releases but damn its asking a lot of my #AutisticInertia to get it to voluntarily take a stroll through the ruins of Trauma Town.
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