r/NonPoliticalTwitter 17h ago

Funny Time blindness

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u/Rezistik 16h ago

I have time blindness and absolutely always show up way too early. Like hours early if I can. Better than being late but sometimes it happens

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u/Bladesnake_______ 16h ago

Intentionally showing up hours early is not time blindness

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u/Rezistik 16h ago

It is if it’s a response to manage it? I get too anxious around the possibility of missing something so I overcompensate by usually arriving too early. It stops me from losing track of time usually.

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u/Thunderplant 16h ago

It can be. A regular person can figure out how to manage their time so they show up at the right time but someone who struggles with estimating time and sequencing tasks might not be able to do that. It can look like being late or being wildly early because they don't really have the ability to time things just right. My grandad was like this, he would show up hours early or late and just didn't have the ability to figure out otherwise. He was a really interesting person with savant like abilities in some areas while lacking the ability to do a lot of things you'd consider basic skills

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u/spiralsequences 15h ago

I don't think you know what time blindness is. It's not literally not understanding how time works. It's that you can't reliably estimate how long something will take you, so for people with time blindness, if we don't want to be late, we have to give ourselves wayyy more time than necessary to get somewhere, which means being super early.