Question on time blindness
I was diagnosed with ADHD last year, so I’m still discovering that a lot of things about myself and who I am has some sort of relation to ADHD.
One of the features of ADHD I never did connect to myself though was time blindness. I understand time. I can feel the passing of time and I know how long it takes me to walk somewhere do the dishes or any other task for that matter.
But I recently figured out that I got it all wrong. I know how long those tasks take because I’ve been told by Google or because I did them before so I have actual data to rely on.
And even with that data I realized that one of the things my wife finds annoying about me is my constant optimism related to tasks. I always estimate everything to take 5 min. or that we are almost done even though we are not.
I also put everything off till last minute which I guess is also related to time blindness because I believe I can get everything done in a couple of hours even though it might be major tasks.
Also I realized discussing this with my wife, that I also have a tendency to say I’m going to be working or do something for just 5 min. and then I’ll get stuck in that task for hours without realizing it. Sometimes I work a full workday from home 8 hours straight with no pause to eat or drink.
So now my question. Is this time blindness?
And do you all have any other examples of what time blindness is and how you experience it?
I’m genuinely surprised how I continue to realize so many small things that I do, that could be in some way connected to ADHD.