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?

https://www.simplypsychology.org/adhd-time-blindness.html

#TimeBlindness #ADHD

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

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.”

😆

#ukrainian #language #timeblindness #adhd

@actuallyadhd @autistics

Hmm 🤔. Seriously wondering if I've lost an hour or if BST just started in the middle of my evening in the middle of the week?

I'm guessing the former but it really feels like a switch was flipped & the day / clocks just jumped forward by an hour in the blink of an eye.

This makes me sad & mad 😞😣😠.
I hate it when both my autistic & ADHD selves gang up on me.
Evening plans wrecked or tomorrow wrecked if stubborn me comes along & plays along with insomnia.

#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic
#TimeBlindness #ExecutiveDysfunction

"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.

#timeblindness #adhd #datenight

Dear Old Git Time,

Please rewind, hold your horses, slow down, chill, take a break, hit pause, back it up, go back a bit, and a bit more, give me a chance, calm down dear, for the love of sanity STOP!

Yours Sincerely,
Tired of Always Losing Huge Chunks of My Day

#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic #TimeBlindness #ExecutiveDysfunction #Burnout #Spoons #NoSpoons

@actuallyadhd @autistics

I seem to have identified a bug in my systems.
No matter how much time (in hours not minutes) I give myself to wrap my head around prepping & even starting to prep for eventually going to be at or if possible before midnight, I somehow still end up not getting to bed till 02:00 give or take half an hour.

I can feel completely zonked all day or all evening due to short nights of sleep if I have to get up early. It makes no sense. I think I need to start using a metaphorical hammer & somehow persuade myself that the world won't end if I do that thing tomorrow or those things the day after.

It does seem to be because there's that one thing, out of many that's been hanging over me for days, weeks, months or longer & today was going to be the day. So it may be late but this maybe the only time I have a set of spoons the right shape or strong enough to deal with this task. It's now or never.

It can be a small complex task, revamping bullet journal templates in my more app, sorting out all the stages for a future batch cook or a long laborious one involving things I'm not keen on like clearing up cobwebs & bugs 😱 or unidentified spills, dirt & giant dust bunnies 🤢.

I've tried reminders, alarms. I've planned days where everything has all the time I need & more but inevitably this either leads to stagnation because I'm so out of spoons not helped by the side effects of lack of sleep. Alternatively, the ADHD trait of getting sidetracked comes along & nixes my timings & tasks.
I've tried getting up earlier which, unless I have an early enough appointment or planned activity with or for other people generally fail to launch on time or if I survived the important thing in the early hours, I'm then a zombie & spend more time just sitting, gathering dice / spoons by not doing anything.

I keep telling myself I'll figure it out & find a way but I'm not sure I'm wired to ever find a fix for getting myself to bed before midnight.

#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic #TimeBlindness #ExecutiveDysfunction #LackOfFocus #SelfCare #Life #Sleep #SleepProblems