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[dragonlady7]

ten months, just found it, had stuck it there because i thought it needed revision, i don't think it actually does

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i’ve read these sentences before but only in shit posts

thegayestmusic​ I’m not OP, but I saw you wanted a link to the article! In case you haven’t gotten one yet, here https://www.additudemag.com/adhd-sleep-disturbances-symptoms/ it is. It’s actually an article on sleep and ADHD that touches on messed up internal clocks as a potential cause of sleep problems.

Also, for anyone interested, I also like this article https://www.additudemag.com/is-your-spouse-always-late-running-on-adhd-time/, which conceptualizes ADHD time perception as more “kinesthetic” than neurotypical time perception, which is more linear:

The pictures reveal that people with ADHD perceive time not as a sequence of events the way others usually do, but as a diffuse collection of events that are viscerally connected to the people, activities, and emotions that fill them. The person with ADHD focuses intensely on all of the related details, experiencing these events with all of their interconnectedness. Slotting events into their proper place in time is a challenge.

Then there is this article http://adultadhdrelationships.blogspot.com/2010/09/adhd-and-time-blindness-dr-russell.html about managing time blindness, taken from Russell Barkley’s book, Taking Charge of Adult ADHD. I’ve found it helpful.

And finally there is this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmV8HQUuPEk&list=PLzBixSjmbc8eFl6UX5_wWGP8i0mAs-cvY&index=10 by Dr. Barkley that goes into more detail about exactly what time blindness is and how it affects people with ADHD.

I just wanted to comment on the bit in the quote where he says his patients “don’t wear watches”– this is not because they’re too stupid to realize that a watch would help them, which is what I feel like that sentence sounds like it’s saying. No, in my experience, we spent years of our childhood wearing watches– in my case, I wore an analog watch for years to force myself to learn to tell time, theorizing that I just needed yet more practice, but what that meant is that I couldn’t read the watch I was wearing so if someone asked me the time I’d have to show them the watch face, which was confusing, and a lot of times if I wanted to know the time, I would have forgotten that I was doing that by the time I deciphered what the hands meant. So then I wore a digital watch, which I mostly used to tell my left hand from my right, which was another thing I by then was aware it was age-inappropriate that i couldn’t. I used that watch for its alarms, exclusively, and it was somewhat useful, but I lost it and never replaced it.

Over the course of my life I’ve gone through several years-long phases where I wore watches, and I did not know what time it was at any point during those phases, any more than I did without the watches.

Here’s a weird sidebar, however: I do not need a kitchen timer when I cook, or an alarm clock to wake up. If pasta has to boil for nine minutes, I’ll set a timer, and then I’ll come back into the room when there are thirty seconds left on the timer, without fail. And I don’t even have a clock by my bed anymore, because I wake up when I need to. I am a fastidiously punctual person, I’ve trained myself to be.

It makes me wonder what it cost me to become this way, but there it is. I don’t understand time well, but I am never late. (Your picture was not posted)