Does anyone have problems with time/space continuum?

Post Reply New Topic

I have issues with I guess it's more time continuum than space. What I mean is that sometimes something can happen now and I don't feel a response or an immediate affect to it even though I am aware of it. I might feel a little something but sometimes it won't be until much later that I really register it and feel it deeply. Or sometimes I can bring up stuff that happened months or even many years ago and I am experiencing the emotions of it as it if were right now. And I can have conversations where I might start a conversation now and pick it up days or months or even years later without missing a beat as if it was just happening. For example I might start a conversation with, "Do you remember when you said or did this or that three years ago?" And it is as fresh now as it was then. Does anyone else do this?

Yes.

Partly some kind of processing issue. I think it's an aspect of executive dysfunction.

Something you may want to look up is "time blindness" there was a link on Karla's ASD page (Facebook) to a webinar through ADDitude magazine on time blindness. I found it very interesting and a good fit, though I do not have ADD, just ASD. I think this must be a trait common to both disorders.

I have the experience of short delayed responses (5-20 minutes) all the time. Multi year responses are not always easy to recognize, but I have certainly seen them in myself around large issues like my father's death.

My wife does this all the time. It drives me nuts. She suddenly say something like "he's going to have problems with that" and I have to interrogate... "Who is going to have problems with what?" and she get annoyed because I haven't picked up that she's resuming a conversation from several months ago that she left off in mid sentence. It especially annoys me when she starts a "new" conversation with "he / she" and I've no idea who she's talking about.

I don't think that I have delayed emotional responses.

No immediate response means no response for me.

I can't think of any instance of delayed emotional response in my life.

First, let me make a distinction: If a problem brought up some time before is still ongoing, then rehashing old discussions is appropriate to deal with that problem.

For problems brought to a successful resolution, my studies of Zen Buddhism taught me a great technique for dealing with them: Zen teaches that the only thing that is real is what exists in the present moment--not in the past and not in the future. Rehashing old, resolved problems is rehashing something that no longer exists, and therefore is a form of insanity. Now, when I catch myself doing such things, I take it as an opportunity to laugh at myself for my own foolishness.

I can have this with emotions but not conversations that I know of anyway.

I have this all the time. It makes attending classes frustrating because I'm always a minute or two behind what other people have said, and when I bring old conversations up as if it's recent most people just get confused. Everything is "recently" for me. I can get just as mad at an event that happened 2-3 years ago as I can at something that just happened.

My theory is usually that my mind is still processing things. I start to "get" things much later than other people, I've always just assumed that my mind has to translate it into something my Asperger's-riddled brain can understand.

This happens to me more than I like. Sometimes I think I am either just oblivious to the situation or not paying attention.

I am grateful that I can pause, rewind, and play TV shows and movies when I miss something. Too bad it does not apply in real life!

The other day I was talking to my mum and we couldn't remember a certain word, then two days later we were having a conversation and I suddenly remembered the word and just said "tender" in the middle of the conversation and my mum knew exactly what I was talking about and was like "that was the word".

Sometime I find that when I'm talking to someone they'll say something that'll remind me of a past conversation and make me understand what they said which I didn't understand at the time of the conversation.