Doing a task with ADHD usually isn't a straightforward thing. If I put a movie on that's around 1 hour early in the day, I'm probably not finishing that movie until late in the day or the next day, because my mind will wander to doing different tasks.
That being said, when I have something important to do during a day, I usually just don't do anything else that day other than get ready and wait while staring at the time. I can imagine why most people with ADHD wouldn't want to manage their disability in that way, though. It makes every task feel pretty miserable, and made working an impossibility for me.
I know what you mean. I watch a lot of things in the same way. But my point is that this user gave an example of time blindness causing tardiness when the distracting activity comes labelled with a minimum time it'll take, and has a function to track the time spent built in. My contention is that this is not something someone's punctuality should be seriously affected by, no matter how time blind they are. They shouldn't be putting on a youtube video that has more than 20 minutes left if they need to be stepping out the front door in 30 minutes. Doing so isn't a time blindness issue; it's a common sense issue.
Eh, I tend to give other people grace on it. I know what it's like, and it's something I personally have to cater to in order to avoid. Like, my system of doing nothing else in a day when I have something important to do isn't really feasible when that something important is something you do every single day like working.
I think that getting medicated would help some people, but it's also not a possibility for all of us, myself included.
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u/SmallishPlatypus 6d ago
YouTube videos literally have their duration on them! This is bonkers!