Here’s a definition ChatGPT wrote for me:
Time blindness is a term used to describe difficulty in accurately perceiving the passage of time, often experienced by people with ADHD. It can make it challenging to estimate how much time has passed or how long tasks will take.
TLDR: Trouble telling how much time has passed, common in ADHD.
Managing time with ADHD can be challenging. It’s a daily uphill battle just to stay on task, let alone do the tasks in the set timeframe.
When we go to work, we often have to adhere to specific timeframes. We end up doing everything in record time, time and time again. All because we’re getting both paid for it and we have someone (a colleague/manager) keeping us accountable.
How about all the times we’ve started playing games and said ‘5 more minutes?’ An hour or two can go by without us even realising it.
Remember all we had a 2pm appointment that was a 30 min drive, at 12pm we decided to start that new game/movie/series thinking we have plenty of time then realise at 1.45 we should’ve left 15 mins ago, and arrive to the 30 minute appointment, 25 mins late?
Time blindness is real, and it fucking sucks when we’re late to something super important.
We’ve all experienced it, I’m sure.
Steps to Combat Time Blindness:
- Buy a watch that tells the time.
- Be anxious about the time and look at the time all the time
- Create alarms the second you remember.
- Getting up the second you realise it’s worth getting up before you’re late/it’s forgotten again.
- Trying to be more conscious of your behaviours (thinking more about what you’re doing in the moment instead of just continuing doing, and letting the moment pass)
Habits are learned after doing them again and again till they stick.
The more you do, the better your outcome.
They don’t all have to be done at the same time or all at once.
Take your time learning these habits to keep things more consistent.
No matter how you’ve learnt your habit, if it works, it works.
Even I’m not perfect.
It took me years to work somewhat consistently on everything at the same time.
It used to take me 9 months to do my taxes.
It used to take me 3-4 days to do the dishes.
Taxes take 2 weeks and dishes take 5 minutes now.
Everything was hard for me till I decided I didn’t want them to be hard anymore.
I started teaching myself how to be more consistent and do more and more.
I search Youtube, TikTok, or Googled what I needed, or asked ChatGPT if I thought I’d get a better answer there.
The more you work on your habits, the more consistent they become, the easier things get.
Things are hard until they’re learned.
Time blindness is real.
Create and follow better habits.
Start small.
Take your life back.
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