• TurdBurgler@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    16 hours ago

    I once read ADHD described as “nearsightedness of the future” aka time blindness.

    I think about that a lot.

    • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      It exactly feels like that to me

      I am telling to people since very long “I don’t feel time”, way longer than I know that I am on the spectrum…

      Have you recognised already, that not feeling time results in feeling speed differently than others as well?

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      13 hours ago

      Every time school gave me an essay or project about “Where do you see yourself in X amount of years?” I’d freeze. How on earth am I supposed to know that?! I don’t know where I’ll be next week, or next year, I can’t know where I’d be in 10, 20, or whatever arbitrary number they assigned.

      I never completed one of those assignments. My brain just couldn’t comprehend it. The future is a vast open space that I’m constantly stepping toward. I can’t see what’s there. Planning for long-term has always caused me problems. I couldn’t decide on a major for college and didn’t end up going until I was 22 (and I dropped out a couple years later.)

      I absolutely, 100% agree with the “nearsightedness of the future” assessment. I’m just strolling through life, living with what comes. I recently signed a 12 month lease, and that’s the farthest I’ve planned ahead in a really long time.

    • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      Me too, my girlfriend gave it to me, at least I started, but damn does reading feels like waste of time to me

      But I did only manage to read at one session So far

      Then me goes on answering stuff on lemmy like time doesn’t exist

      😌