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05 Jun 2010, 8:57 am

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I feel time very very accurately. I can sometimes tell time down to the minute. I dont feel today is so accurate. I think at the moment it is... 2.42pm. I will go look at my cellphone clock. It is.... 14.43. cripes. That is one weird talent. I am not joking about this.


Yeah! I can do this! :) It's sort of fun game I do and I'm usually close within a minute or so. It is a weird talent. At the same time, a week can go by in a flash for me so that it only feels like a day in terms of speed. Once in a while I can completely lose track of time and get into something for hours on end without considering or feeling time passing.



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05 Jun 2010, 3:15 pm

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It's cold and dark and long, and made of rock. There's a shiny, viscous substance on the walls. I can't tell if walking down it is leading anywhere or not.


acceptable if arty


That's the best review I've ever had.

I can usually guess the time within 15 minutes, and that's good enough for my purposes.


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05 Jun 2010, 3:19 pm

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but if someone were to ask me (sans watch)
were you trying to say, sandwich? and im just enjoying my time here mostley


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05 Jun 2010, 3:23 pm

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I seem to have the fuzzy sense of time like the OP. Maybe it has to do with intense focus or having a non-multi-tasking brain? I can try to watch the clock -- say there's an upcoming appointment -- and the intervals will be from 5 minutes to maybe 3 hours, even if I'm trying to consistently check every ten minutes.

I also have a hard time dating my memories. I can rarely remember what year something happened -- maybe it was last year, or ten years ago -- it all seems mixed up or all the same. It's like the timestamp on the memories isn't there.


Same. but I learned a way around that at a young age. I have this weird talent of memorizing movies, and the year they came out. Then I ask myself if something happened before or after that movie/point in time. and can usually narrow things down and figure out how old i was when something happened, via process of elimination.

never thought this was unusual, just always been that way



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05 Jun 2010, 3:26 pm

richardbenson wrote:
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but if someone were to ask me (sans watch)
were you trying to say, sandwich? and im just enjoying my time here mostley


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05 Jun 2010, 4:34 pm

I like these sort of posts because they actually help us gather information from our own perspective about ASDs, personally im with those who dont have a clue, almost no internal chronometer, i can 'guess' based on how long i think said task ive done has taken but, remove a majour and obvious reference point and im immediately stuck in forever.



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05 Jun 2010, 5:51 pm

I am very aware of what time it is as well. Although, the time period that has just passed can feel either fast or slow. It depends what I'm doing. But, I still know how much time it has been, even the time it feels varies. If that makes sense...



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05 Jun 2010, 5:55 pm

auntblabby wrote:
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It's cold and dark and long, and made of rock. There's a shiny, viscous substance on the walls. I can't tell if walking down it is leading anywhere or not.


an acceptable if arty description of how time feels to me. i just cannot guess what time it is outside of looking at the sun in the sky or a clock/watch. i can't get up in the morning without an alarm clock. i wish i had the internal clock of those amazing folk who can make themselves wake up at a time of their choice without having to resort to alarms.


I can do this. But it is not bad, having no sense of time, it means you can get lost in fun things...


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05 Jun 2010, 6:00 pm

happymusic wrote:
zen_mistress wrote:
I feel time very very accurately. I can sometimes tell time down to the minute. I dont feel today is so accurate. I think at the moment it is... 2.42pm. I will go look at my cellphone clock. It is.... 14.43. cripes. That is one weird talent. I am not joking about this.


Yeah! I can do this! :) It's sort of fun game I do and I'm usually close within a minute or so. It is a weird talent. At the same time, a week can go by in a flash for me so that it only feels like a day in terms of speed. Once in a while I can completely lose track of time and get into something for hours on end without considering or feeling time passing.


I am glad to see other people with this talent, it is great to find people on the board who have similar things.. also I was worried people wouldnt believe my post when I did that yesterday.

I think it is because am a very anxious, alert person. I am always thinking about the time.

I worked in offices for 10 years and had some job which had tight deadlines so that made me even more hypervigilant of time, if I wasnt I would get in big trouble.


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05 Jun 2010, 6:51 pm

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because I live so completely in my head, which is a vast space without boundaries ( :) ).


Yes , I dont know the passage of time either ; I always wear a watch .

I dont know the date or the day many times , too.
I can asked someone what day is it multiple times and within 15 minutes.
Its as if I know what day it is in a certain context and then if I'm thinking in another frame ,I cant pass the information to it ,and ask what day it is all over again .
Someone can hand me my paycheck on Friday, as I get paid every week ,same day, and I can ask "what is today" five minutes later".
(They just disregard this as " My quirk".)



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06 Jun 2010, 2:09 pm

For me the passage of time sometimes comes in the form of noticing the clouds move across the sky as I'm working throughout the day and all.Still, even when I do look up at the clock in the office I'm not going into anxiety maelstrom though..