Affiliate disclosure: Some links below are affiliate links. If you buy through them, we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend stuff we’d actually use. “I’ll just do this for five minutes” I said, three hours ago, now emerging from a Wikipedia rabbit hole about the history of elevators. If this sounds familiar, congratulations. You have time blindness, the ADHD feature nobody asked for. ...
I was 38 when I learned that not everyone experiences time as a flat, featureless void. That most people can feel an hour pass. That “five more minutes” actually means five minutes to them, not some random interval between 2 and 45 minutes. Time blindness is the ADHD symptom nobody warns you about. And it quietly wrecks more of your life than you’d think. What Time Blindness Actually Is Here’s the short version: your brain doesn’t have a reliable internal clock. Neurotypical people have this built-in sense of how long things take, how much time has passed, and when they need to leave for something. ADHD brains? Not so much. ...