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stormslesbian:
does anyone else w/ adhd think about time passing as like, losing time until the next event like “oh i only have 30 minutes until i need to leave for work” vs “i have 30 minutes to do what i need to do before i leave for work”? like i constantly feel like i’m fighting time passing and getting closer to when i’m ‘out of time’ is really stressful
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oh my gosh yes. I am an ADHD person who is Extremely Punctual for everything because I always leave twice as long as I think I’ll need, etc. And I know that if I start a new task I run the risk of getting sucked in and then not doing the Thing I Need To Do At [Time]. I’m jealous of my sister, who is a mom and business owner and is an absolute master of “I have to do something in five minutes? I’ll do this task that will take me four minutes and fifty-four seconds, no problem” and it WORKS for her EVERY TIME. Meanwhile I’ve been standing in the corner fidgeting and watching the clock for fifteen minutes already because I noticed the time twenty minutes before [time] and was afraid to try to start anything new then. I have 1) no idea how long anything takes, and 2) horrible anxiety about Inadvertent Hyperfocus, which is probably justified because at the end of any given day I couldn’t tell you what I was doing for probably ten hours of it, non-consecutively; time just Goes, sometimes, and I don’t know where it went or what happened but it sure did go by.
But by God I have never once been late for work or school in my entire life. I just… haven’t done anything with myself in all that time.
stormslesbian:
does anyone else w/ adhd think about time passing as like, losing time until the next event like “oh i only have 30 minutes until i need to leave for work” vs “i have 30 minutes to do what i need to do before i leave for work”? like i constantly feel like i’m fighting time passing and getting closer to when i’m ‘out of time’ is really stressful
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oh my gosh yes. I am an ADHD person who is Extremely Punctual for everything because I always leave twice as long as I think I’ll need, etc. And I know that if I start a new task I run the risk of getting sucked in and then not doing the Thing I Need To Do At [Time]. I’m jealous of my sister, who is a mom and business owner and is an absolute master of “I have to do something in five minutes? I’ll do this task that will take me four minutes and fifty-four seconds, no problem” and it WORKS for her EVERY TIME. Meanwhile I’ve been standing in the corner fidgeting and watching the clock for fifteen minutes already because I noticed the time twenty minutes before [time] and was afraid to try to start anything new then. I have 1) no idea how long anything takes, and 2) horrible anxiety about Inadvertent Hyperfocus, which is probably justified because at the end of any given day I couldn’t tell you what I was doing for probably ten hours of it, non-consecutively; time just Goes, sometimes, and I don’t know where it went or what happened but it sure did go by.
But by God I have never once been late for work or school in my entire life. I just… haven’t done anything with myself in all that time.
