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.
I once read ADHD described as “nearsightedness of the future” aka time blindness.
I think about that a lot.
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?
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.