Yeah that’s me on cross country flights. I do bring a book and computer and all that good stuff but then I never commit to using them and just sit there and think for hours instead. Honestly I think it might ironically be an ADHD thing.
As someone with very acute time perception, it would be intriguing/horrifying to experience ADHD with time blindness for a day. It seems at once highly freeing and also incredibly unmoored. Usually I am walking towards things seconds before they beep and being able to guess the time to within minutes, but some people with ADHD really don’t have that. We’re all so different, it’s just exciting.
i’m not diagnosed but i have a good deal of ADHD symptoms, and for me it’s a strict binary of either 1 second feels like a minute, or 1 hour feels like a minute.
That’s rough, buddy. My kid has it the same way, and it’s always upsetting for them. Fun is always ending too soon, boredom is always lasting too long.
Ironically I actually have very good time perception, it’s not uncommon for me to guess the current time of day within a few minutes and I usually know pretty accurately how long I’ve been at some task. But all the same that doesn’t stop me from doing what you described and just blinking away entire hours. It’s just that when it happens, I generally know exactly how hard I just fucked myself :P
When I’m in blank mode on a plane, I usually mentally check in once every 45/60 minutes and sometimes confirm where I am in time (And space) by pulling up the real time flight map. If I’m off by 5 minutes that keeps me on track.
Yeah that’s me on cross country flights. I do bring a book and computer and all that good stuff but then I never commit to using them and just sit there and think for hours instead. Honestly I think it might ironically be an ADHD thing.
As someone with very acute time perception, it would be intriguing/horrifying to experience ADHD with time blindness for a day. It seems at once highly freeing and also incredibly unmoored. Usually I am walking towards things seconds before they beep and being able to guess the time to within minutes, but some people with ADHD really don’t have that. We’re all so different, it’s just exciting.
i’m not diagnosed but i have a good deal of ADHD symptoms, and for me it’s a strict binary of either 1 second feels like a minute, or 1 hour feels like a minute.
That’s rough, buddy. My kid has it the same way, and it’s always upsetting for them. Fun is always ending too soon, boredom is always lasting too long.
Ironically I actually have very good time perception, it’s not uncommon for me to guess the current time of day within a few minutes and I usually know pretty accurately how long I’ve been at some task. But all the same that doesn’t stop me from doing what you described and just blinking away entire hours. It’s just that when it happens, I generally know exactly how hard I just fucked myself :P
When I’m in blank mode on a plane, I usually mentally check in once every 45/60 minutes and sometimes confirm where I am in time (And space) by pulling up the real time flight map. If I’m off by 5 minutes that keeps me on track.
That’s super cool. I wish I could blank out the hours like that, except like… Opposite. Time goes too fast these days.
Yeah but sometimes you are doing something fun or useful for hours and it’s never wasted if it’s something important.
and here i am cranky if I’m off by 10 minutes.
I have ADHD and fuuuuuck that. I could do it for a couple hours maybe, but I need my dopamine fix eventually.