• Petter1@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      16 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?

      • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        feeling speed differently than others as well?

        Can you elaborate on this? Like the speed you perform a task or the speed of motion? Both?

          • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            5 hours ago

            This is a great answer.

            •Speed as in processing/performance speed= From a normal person’s perspective, I can perform certain tasks at an annoyingly slow or bizarrely fast pace, but be completely oblivious the whole time.

            •Speed as in the drug= A party drug from a normal person’s perspective somehow alleviates my anxiety, turns the volume down on the constant bombardment and chaos of external stimuli, and allows me to focus on the most salient piece of incoming information so I don’t constantly feel like this:

            •Speed as in perception of an external object’s velocity=distance/time, for ADHD vs neurotypical brains is the only one I don’t really get off hand, but I am interested in understanding. It could be that once I hear an example it will click.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 day 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
      3·
      16 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

      😌

      • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        I can’t sit down and read a whole book to save my life, but audiobooks are my best friend. Especially when I need to do something boring and repetitive for a long time but can’t find any podcasts or music to hold my attention.