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maltedmilkchocolate:

Time blindness is the weirdest aspect of executive dysfunction and so weird as an experience to live with.

It’s like you see the clock, the clock says 3pm, you look at the clock again and it’s 3:02, then 3:05, and then you look again and it’s 8pm and WHAT THE FUCK.

You don’t even need hyperfocus. But hyperfocus is like the Warp Speed:tm: version cause when that hits, it’s 3pm and then it’s the next day and why is the sun rising and when did i last eat and oh god i need to use the bathroom. And oh, also, you’re EXHAUSTED. The act of your brain tunnel visioning on something drains you (but that’s another topic).

Time blindness is…. having the general knowledge that today is Wednesday, and you need to do something on Thursday. Thursday is logically tomorrow, but the mysterious void of time is like ‘that’s like next week or something.’ 

It’s knowing you have to do something in three weeks on the 21st. And as the days creep closer, the 21st is stuck in a constant state of still being 3 weeks away, despite the fact it’s now tomorrow.

It’s wild. ADHD is literally living in a constant state of “There is Now. And there is Later.” and there’s no in between; no dates, no times; no hours, weeks, or months. It’s just Now and Later, and oh god why is is X o’clock already!?

Edit: I added some links to info and a bit more explanation here!

sheridancollege:

profeminist:

“My teenage nephew told me he asked a girl out and she turned him down. I said, “You know what to do now, right?” He said, “I know I know keep trying” and I said “NO. LEAVE HER ALONE. She gave you an answer.” He was shocked. NO ONE had told him that before. TEACH. YOUR. BOYS.”

🌹 Witch, Hunting  💀‏

I was once in a small program in a school where like 12 kids were together for the whole semester. This boy had been so insesently asking one of the other two girls in this class out for months apparently. She was a nice girl, like probably too nice for her own good, because she said she would still really like to be friends with him each time. One day he wrote her a long note saying he didn’t care that she had a boyfriend and he was never giving up on her.

She was distraught. She was in tears. The rest of our class became aware at this point about what he had been doing and started telling him to leave her alone. He STILL PURSED THIS POOR GIRL. He had caused her to have a full breakdown in front of all her peers but didn’t see anything wrong!