Problems With Time

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Anybody else have problems with time?
I mean as in not knowing the right time to do stuff, or planning to do stuff for a certain amount of time and it all goes horribly wrong.

It happens to me all the time, I try and da schedule but can never keep up with it. But it's worse when I think I've got plenty of time left and then later I'm left in a rush and panic.

Is this similar for anyone else?

I can't even begin to describe my relationship with time. It has been so hard for me to comprehend and I'm still not sure it makes much sense to me as in the way regular people think about it. I didn't learn how to tell time by a clock until I was around 12 years old. If I have an appointment for lets, say noon on a particular, I get ready at 8 and just sit there waiting until the 'time' comes around for me to be there. I am usually at least an hour early as I don't want to let time slip by and then be late and embarassed.
I could go on and on about this subject.

Yeah I'm a bit weird with time, too. Like if I know I need to be somewhere by a certain time I get all worried I will be late and would get there early. I don't need to worry about it yet at my age but it will probably get annoying when I'm older.

I'm not very good with time. I struggle to estimate the passage of time, and in fact keep the tv on when I am at home for the purpose of making it feel like whatever time of day it is (by hearing what is on, I have a good idea about what time of the day it is, without it I feel 'time-disorientated').

I am also poor at time management, and even though at one point, I was the only child in my class (at school) who could tell the time on an analogue time-piece, I still tell the time the same way; on some time pieces (like the fancy ones without numbers) I often cannot figure out what time it is displaying.

I did love my first digital time piece though. It came with a 'stop watch' function that fascinated me and I would 'time' all kinds of things using it. At one point I used it to time all my favorite utterances.

not sure if this is same thing but am do have difficulties with time,am only understand time in terms of light [meaning day] and dark [meaning night],if it wasnt for others saying it was morning/evening/night would have no idea.
dont understand numbers either,and fail maths at entry level one asdan [the lowest level possible for people with disabilities]
am always assumed the time thing was part of having learning disabilities.

No. I don't think 'time' as measured by regular people is at all natural. I use the stars and the sun and the moon most of the time ever since I was very small. By the way KOR I really enjoyed your site and sent you an email about my cat family.

the tyranny of time

we mentally create the concepts of space and time, spacetime, and then become controlled by them. people who think for themselves and like to analyze everything frequently come to the conclusion they don't want to be ruled by time. people on the spectrum are naturally suspicious of such things and slow to get in formation and march. we tend to be averse to being controlled by anything much less something people just invented in their minds to supposedly enable things to run smoothly.

time does not flow. time does not go anywhere. time does not exist. there is only one moment that is real, which is the present moment. all else is illusion.

nevertheless, mental constructs of time and synchronizing clocks enable lots of things to take place more conveniently.

i have no concept of time. It seems to speed up and slow down..I can't measure inte3rvals of time in my mind very well at all. Today I woke up and all of a sudden it is 5p.m.
Half an hour in a waiting room can seem like 5 hours doing something else...I can't grasp it.

I could tell that just by looking at you. I am happy to know another time dysfunctional person.

I can't sense the passage of time really. I think Aspies are more "in the moment."

One trick I've found with NT's is they are impressed with punctuality but never speed.

An example : The pope calls you up and wants you to repaint the Cistine Chapel. It's a huge job, it would take an ordinary artist 6 months.

But you're superfast and can do it in a week.

If you tell the pope you can do it in a week, he'll be taken aback, give you a skeptical look and say "OK."

Now suppose you get a little bogged down and take 10 days to do it. The pope will be furious. It doesn't matter that it would take anybody else 6 months. You're not 5 months ahead, you're 3 days late. You're not fast, you are slow.

Speed doesn't matter, expectations do.

Another artist who predicts 6 months, then takes 6 months to do it is seen as responsible, motivated and reliable. It doesn't matter they took 5+ months more to do it.

Lesson : don't be a hero. People are much more sensitive to being disappointed than by the actual speed with which you get stuff done. Illogical but true.

I'm of the make, I'll get there when I get there; no sooner, no later. One math teacher used to take several minutes of each lesson in grade 10 lecturing me on punctuality and how five minutes was very important, he didn't see the irony in him "wasting" the same amount of time, or more, as he went on.

He would have been better discussing time itself with me, and its subjectivity and relativity, but the binding it has over everything. But alas, a teacher will be a teacher.

One trick I've found with NT's is they are impressed with punctuality but never speed.

An example : The pope calls you up and wants you to repaint the Cistine Chapel. It's a huge job, it would take an ordinary artist 6 months.

Similar problems for me in the past, poopylongstockings.

I seem able to grasp "almost immediately" and "almost forever", but can't grasp anything in between.

It annoys me when people are very vague/tardy with time. If I say I will be somewhere at a certain time, I'll make sure I'm an hour early rather than be at all late, if it has to be one or the other. But many just wander in fifteen minutes late as if nothing was wrong.

I took time very literally when I was a child. If my mother told me she would be with me or something would be happening in ' just five minutes', I used to get annoyed after more than exactly five minutes had gone by.

I had some problems learning to tell time and read a clock. I managed it in the end, but I apparently seemed to be trying to read it backwards. E.g., if the clock read twenty minutes past seven, I guessed it as being twenty to five.