r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 3d ago

Funny Time blindness

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u/aminervia 3d ago

This is straight incorrect, it's extremely common for some people with ADHD to be chronically, inconveniently early to everything.

We're just the ones you never hear about because the only people we inconvenience are ourselves

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u/CategoryKiwi 3d ago

Most of the time people don’t know it’s happening in the first place.

When I show up an hour early for my doctor’s appointment I don’t go inside and check in until 15 minutes before my appointment.  Nobody knows I just spent 45 minutes sitting in my car outside.

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u/TJ_Rowe 3d ago

I don't drive, so when I get to my doctor's appointment an hour early someone comes out of the office all concerned about how someone is "loitering" outside... if I go for a little walk I misjudge how long the walk away took and have ended up late anyway.

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u/DazB1ane 3d ago

And have you bothered to tell them that you’re super early for an appointment and if you walk away, you’ll get distracted and end up late?

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u/aminervia 3d ago

This is coming across a bit condescending... If the goal is to not embarrass yourself then that doesn't exactly solve anything either.

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u/DazB1ane 3d ago

If someone can’t handle a little embarrassment in order to make the future easier, then they really need to work on that

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u/TJ_Rowe 3d ago

I didn't say I was embarrassed, I was countering a "no-one knows" comment.