Time blindness....

People used to wear a watch to cure that ailment!

Experienced a couple of new things lately, places selling canned water, instead of a bottle you can reseal in a gym. And refusing to stock shoes because they are not vegan!
 
Efour said:
If someone told you they suffer from time blindness what's your reaction?
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Probably a side effect of something else like anxiety or depression. Or possibly they've just never been able to organize themselves because or poor education or dubious parenting when they were a kid.
 
iamdjdz said:
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.
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Says someone who has never had any cognitive issues due to illness or injury.

There are cognitive issues that cause things like bad short term memory loss, one of my friends has periods where he can turn an alarm off and continue with something he's already started as simple as putting the milk in the fridge, and forget the timer ever went off or what it was for, he's not thick or daft but has a medical problem that can screw with his memory and perception of time especially if he's got any infections or is overly tired.

IIRC concussions, and various infections can cause issues like this that might result in someone suffering from it intermittently for anything from hours to days, whilst some other conditions can cause it longer term.
Basically anything that affects how the brain function can cause all sorts of weirdness with awareness. it's akin to the delirium/delusions you can suffer when ill* where you might be out of it like you're on acid, except it's affecting you in a more specific and limited way.


*Fairly common with severe infections, or even just "mild" kidney ones from memory.
 
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Werewolf said:
Says someone who has never had any cognitive issues due to illness or injury.

There are cognitive issues that cause things like bad short term memory loss, one of my friends has periods where he can turn an alarm off and continue with something he's already started as simple as putting the milk in the fridge, and forget the timer ever went off or what it was for, he's not thick or daft but has a medical problem that can screw with his memory and perception of time especially if he's got any infections or is overly tired.

IIRC concussions, and various infections can cause issues like this that might result in someone suffering from it intermittently for anything from hours to days, whilst some other conditions can cause it longer term.
Basically anything that affects how the brain function can cause all sorts of weirdness with awareness. it's akin to the delirium/delusions you can suffer when ill* where you might be out of it like you're on acid, except it's affecting you in a more specific and limited way.


*Fairly common with severe infections, or even just "mild" kidney ones from memory.
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I'm not referring to that - I've seen people with all sorts of cognitive injuries due to illness and injury with those kind of symptoms. That's not 'time blindness' in it's own right though, it's a brain injury/cognitive illness that causes a person to be unaware of several things, I'd be willing to say not just time in almost all cases. I'm also not belittling people who have those symptoms, I have very close family and work colleagues whose brain illnesses have caused loss and pain personally.

I am referring to normal people who suggest 'time blindness' is a thing in its own singular right and they are just being too lazy to sort themselves out and use it as an excuse. Which sadly is the case for some people.
 
Wikipedia doesn't have an article on time blindness. Google results hints of it being on the spectrum. That's something I don't get though - why is it that everyone is on the spectrum these days? Surely it's not just in my head as it seems to be diagnosed left, right and centre these days, where back in school in the 1990s, there was only 1 kid in my entire school. He had to have his own security because he kept hitting everyone else.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
Wikipedia doesn't have an article on time blindness. Google results hints of it being on the spectrum. That's something I don't get though - why is it that everyone is on the spectrum these days? Surely it's not just in my head as it seems to be diagnosed left, right and centre these days, where back in school in the 1990s, there was only 1 kid in my entire school. He had to have his own security because he kept hitting everyone else.
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If you have any kind of personality quirk these days, people will line up to tell you that they think "you might be on the spectrum" and "you should get diagnosed."
 
Werewolf said:
There are cognitive issues that cause things like bad short term memory loss, one of my friends has periods where he can turn an alarm off and continue with something he's already started as simple as putting the milk in the fridge, and forget the timer ever went off or what it was for, he's not thick or daft but has a medical problem that can screw with his memory and perception of time especially if he's got any infections or is overly tired.
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TBH this has become quite normal for me. Forgetting what I needed when walking between the kettle and the fridge. I'll put something back in the fridge, walk back to the kettle, and realise I also needed milk from the fridge. Same when walking between rooms or breaking concentration for a phone call/message. I rely heavily on talking to myself, counting fingers and other short term mnemonics. The cancelling an alarm thing? Constantly. I write something on the bac of my hand if it's really crucial, as I'll see if every 10 minutes.

Stu999 said:
Do I get to buddy up with a Mum?
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Yes but she's your twin :D
 
'Time blindness' seems to be talked about entirely in the context of not been able to turn up to work on time - there's another word for that...
 
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