Difficulty keeping track of time -anyone else ?

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I planned to switch the tv on at 7 pm to watch NCIS . It was just before 6.45 pm . Looked again to see if it was time to switch it on and it was nearly 10 past 8 . Have been told judging time increments is a challenge for those on the spectrum/with ADHD . You get so engrossed with something you 'zone out '

I was engrossed with something to do with ethnicity and autosomal DNA. I've been told the colloquial term is 'hyperfixating '

This is purely anecdotal so take it at that level . My wife would say while I was on the computer that she’d spoken to me and I hadn’t answered . Truth is I hadn’t heard her . Was sent for an EEG for suspected absence seizures . The result was negative . This was around the year 2000 .

Have been told that's fairly typical with ASD/ADHD .

I wear a wrist-watch that chimes on the hour. Problem solved.

That's good . Mine's just a bog standard Citizen eco drive .

Mine cost me $4.50 at a Chinese-run convenience store.

I've been bad at keeping track of time in the past. Lately I'm a human clock. Sometimes it's scary how well I guess the time.

I "lose" time all the time ... get totally lost in research or whatever I'm doing. So long as I get everything done I need to, I figure, all is fine.

Again and again; inconsistent.


Sometimes I can guesstimate with a more accurate outcome the whole day consistently.
Sometimes I can't despite the signs, and there were no semi-nonvisualized-visualization widget like clock at the back of my mind.


The former has a working EF and is an experienced young professional -- organized, on time and reliable.
The latter does nothing but chase deadlines, spent most of the time finding misplaced items, forgetting lists on the pocket and forgetting there's a watch on the left wrist... Sometimes still looking at the time for every 10 mins and have an alarm of every hour still does not help with productivity apparently.


Regardless the state if I focus my mind deeply enough on any tasks, time perception will be distorted.
Former will likely thought it's been hours when it's minutes in working. The latter thinks it's only been minutes when hours passed when working.
Both still think fun times were only minutes passed but it's been hours.

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I'm terrible at keeping track of time, I have practically no sense of it. Has it been ten minutes? Forty-five? Unless I've been looking at my watch, I don't know. I rely on alarms on my phone, but even those I'm bad with - I turn them off so they'll stop going off, but then I finish up whatever I was doing and somewhere in there, forget that I was supposed to be done or what I was supposed to be doing instead.

I have poor sense of time. Without a clock or watch I have no idea how much time is passing

I actually seem to be rather good at keeping track of time, at least at work. I'll often guess what time it is in my head just before checking it, and I get it correct to the minute, or with only a couple of minutes' difference surprisingly often.