Saturday October 22, 2005
http://69.20.14.30/discussions/showthread.php?p=3979096#post3979096
Thread talking about dealing with people who are always late
My response:
I have no sense of time and neither does my dh. If we have something where we have to be someplace on time, both of us are a mess and stressed out, sometimes for days preceding it, because we hate upsetting people. We set alarms constantly for things, and still have problems. We both are hopeless….we have no idea if 5 minutes have passed or an hour many times because our brains just don’t function that way most of the time. The only way we can make it ‘on time’ to something is to literally not think about anything else. Even things like “what day is it” are difficult if we don’t have access to a computer (you can check what day/date it is by mousing over the bottom right hand corner of your computer)
The only reason we can make it to work and repetitive things like that are because we develop routines for it. That is a large part of why our schedule changes every sememster. We wake up 2 hours before his first class, whether the class is at 10am or 3pm, and then adjust everything else around that. The routine we have takes that long, and if we get up 3 hours before or only an hour before, we are more likely to screw up and lose track of where we are in the day. Appointments really mess with that.
You know, a lot of people that are extreme visual-spatial thinkers struggle with time (and other linear thinking skills) and it can take a lot of trial and error to be able to function. I spent years crying because I realized I was going to be late to something, then it took a bit for me to calm down enough so I didn’t show up crying. It is actually why I stopped wearing make-up…so that I didn’t have to add ‘reapply make-up’ to my list of things to do to make it someplace.
On a funny note. I called my mom today. The main reason I called was to tell her how excited I was because I was supposed to take my 3-hour gest.diabetes test. There were 4 of us that had to take it that morning and I was the first one there. Me! She laughed. She knows I try so hard and said she was proud of me.
