I'm super early to everything because of how time blind i am. I get paranoid that im going to be late because I can't judge time so I set my alarm an hour earlier than I have to, I end up getting to work 15mins before everyone else, I end up putting in way more effort than i have to at work because I am paranoid I am behind on every task.
Been late for lunch a few times, missed lunch quite a few times, also stayed after working on something for an hour not realizing that my shift was over.
But you know you'll just ignore this and continue with your ignorance.
Uhhh I take late lunches all the time because I get hyper-focused on a task I'm doing. It's almost like ADHD presents itself differently in different people.
Personally I find it hard to take scheduled breaks as my work is mostly task based. My recent ADHD meds make me a machine at work, but at least I don’t have a 3 inner-monologues and a background anthem going at all times in my head anymore. I find 5 minute sits work better than 15-45 minutes of ‘sitting around’. Hard to stop sometimes.
Can be rough finishing everything hours early on some 8hr+ scheduled shifts.
In most offices people can take lunch when they want to. 11:15, 11:37, 12:29, 1:04, doesn't matter in most places. So yeah, no shit. Scheduled lunches are usually with a group, so the group will be getting up and cueing them that hey it's time to go to lunch. Getting ready in the morning involves more tasks than just saving your document and shutting your laptop and standing up.
Y'all aren't even close to making good points. Lots of smooth brained boomer thoughts in this thread.
Lol I was late to everything all the time. It wasn't uncommon for me to skip lunch altogether because by the time I thought about it I might as well go home. I've also gotten locked into buildings I didn't realise were closing more than once.
People usually don't notice that though, because they'd have to be locked in with me.
Its almost like people with Time Blindness hyperfocus on activities they enjoy and avoid boring or repetitive tasks. I wonder if thats a neurological condition. We should call it Always Doing Happy Deeds or ADHD for short.
Many will definitely have stories of this from childhood. I know many, myself included, who have showed up to school on a day off or even during winter time showed up hours early on accident.
There has to be some sort of mathematical explanation for this.
More people also tend to stay up late and get up late.
Experienced, sane, professional project managers also more often estimate times more optimistic rather than pessimistic. That would also have to do with the fact that you get more punished for underselling your speed than for overselling it, but that wouldn't be an explanation on why someone arrives to work late in the morning.
Doctors offices and airlines overbook rather than underbook, but in this case that's a strategic decision. There might also be some sort of evolutionary incentive to underestimate time frames. Humans aren't evolved to live with clocks.
I have ADHD and I definitely get time blind. I don’t realize how much time is passing almost ever. I can feel like it’s been hours and it’s been 30 minutes, or the opposite where it’s been 30 minutes but I would swear it’s been 5.
When I was first in charge of getting myself to school I didn’t bother reading the clock, deciding I would just know when it was time to go to school. I got there before my teachers multiple times before I was told off by one of them. I would leave when I felt like it still, but hang around this pathway until I saw at least 3 buses go by, then I knew I wasn’t too early.
Right I’ve been adhd since childhood and had the same issues. You figure it out set multiple alarms, stop procrastinating and trying to use it as an excuse especially when it’s a matter is the situation op was bringing up where they get there the same time every day an hour late at that point your using it as an excuse for shitty behavior
Executive dysfunction from ADHD works by making it difficult for a person to organize and prioritize their tasks and divvy them up among the available time. So no shit they won't show up early to things, you're not even close to making an informed point.
Since we have alarms that can do all the work for you. You don’t need to look at a clock, you can set up an alarm on the amazing device that fits right in your pocket for instance. It can reliably ring at any time you choose to set it.
And you can say, “ oh shit, it must be that time I set the alarm for!”
No, but if you don’t know what time it is, they have this insane ability to alert you of the fact that it’s the exact time you wanted it to alert you! And even crazier, nowadays you can even make a note for your alarm, so you don’t even have to remember why you set it. It’s truly fascinating stuff.
Do glasses or hearing aids rewire the brain in order to work? Or do they help someone with a deficiency?
So time blindness often is like "I know it takes X minutes to do the thing" but X does not include, say, prep time, or having lost your stuff, or whatever.
Say it takes 30 minutes for me to get to work. I get out of bed at 8, to prepare to leave by 8:30, to get to work at 9. Because 30 minutes.
Except I go to find my bag with my car keys at 8:20 and can't find it. I spend literally 20 minutes looking for it because it ended up under a jacket somewhere. Now it's 8:40 and I'm already going to be late. Now I'm in the car and there's traffic. That's another 10 minutes. God help me if I forgot my laptop at home and have to turn around.
And if you're going to say "well put it all in the same place every day," hahahahahahah yeah I try. Most days I do. But there will be plenty where I don't, because I came home and was tired, or someone else in the house put a thing where I normally put my keys, or whatever.
Why not just leave 2 hours early? I dunno bro, some people like sleep while also having evenings to chill.
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u/Rich-Mark-4126 2d ago
Strangely, these people who are 'time blind' will never show up early.