Time blindness....

[Efour]

If someone told you they suffer from time blindness what's your reaction?

1 laugh

2 laugh a lot.

3 be considerate and realise it's 2023 and everyone has to have a diagnosis for something.

I just need to vent. I hate this place. I hate what the western world is becoming. I hate mosquitos and midges. Totally ruining an evening sitting in the garden

 

[Thekwango]

I’d have to ask what they are talking about as I’ve no idea what time blindness is.

 

[Noxia]

Yep it happens, not just for people with ADHD, though it can be more common.

 

[squerble]

I’d have to ask what they are talking about as I’ve no idea what time blindness is.

"Time blindness is the inability to sense the passing of time and it can make nearly every aspect of a person's life more difficult. The important thing to understand is that it's more like a sensory issue, not an intentional disregard for time."

Apparently.

 

[adolf hamster]

Isn't that just getting your attention drawn into an activity?

Happens to me all the time but this is the first i've heard it being anything other than normal human perception of time and the entire reason we invented clocks.

 

[Stu999]

Was this their excuse for being late?

 

[Malevolence]

Time blindness, Is that when you're absolutely knackered after working non-stop for 4 hours only to look at your watch and realise it's only been an hour?

 

[sigma]

Have you also vented on mumsnet about how bad the world is? How are you going to sleep at night?

 

[Raymond Lin]

You can tell them we have invented clocks centuries ago to treat this illness.

 

[MatsyLR]

Sorry boss, I'm late because of my time blindness, it's real Google it!

 

[Freefaller]

Don't live in the Med then as there's nothing that happens on time there !

 

[Noxia]

Have you also vented on mumsnet about how bad the world is? How are you going to sleep at night?

This site is twinned with mumsnet.

 

[sigma]

This site is twinned with mumsnet.

Ocuk ****snet

 

[jigger]

Depends on the situation. Interesting?

 

[Hagar]

I hate mosquitos and midges. Totally ruining an evening sitting in the garden

You need a better swatter.

 

[Thekwango]

"Time blindness is the inability to sense the passing of time and it can make nearly every aspect of a person's life more difficult. The important thing to understand is that it's more like a sensory issue, not an intentional disregard for time."

Apparently.

Sounds like being stoned.

 

[sidimmu]

everyone has to have a diagnosis for something.

This is the real problem.
Desperate and needy, just get on with it.

Time blindness though, I suspect a percentage of sufferers are just lazy and want an excuse to be late.

 

[tom_nieto]

I presume this is different to being intently focused on a task (especially a stressful or high intensity one) and finding an hour or two has passed?

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

If someone told you they suffer from time blindness what's your reaction?

1 laugh

2 laugh a lot.

3 be considerate and realise it's 2023 and everyone has to have a diagnosis for something.

I just need to vent. I hate this place. I hate what the western world is becoming. I hate mosquitos and midges. Totally ruining an evening sitting in the garden

What's going on, my dude?

 

[iamdjdz]

You can lose track of time while doing things and not notice it go etc but there's no such thing as 'time blindness', it's just being too thick to set alarms and remember things you're supposed to do when you do them.