Does Anyone Else Have No Sense of the Passage of Time?

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Them: "How long ago was it?"
Me: "Um, maybe like a few years ago?"
*looks at calendar*
Me: "Oh it was 7 months ago."

Them: "What took you so long?"
Me: "It's only been like half an hour?"
Them: "It's been 2 hours!"

And so on and so forth.

Also I don't know if this is related, but if you held a gun to my head and tried to ask me how tall someone was in feet, I would just take the bullet.

I am terrible about the passage of time. I consistently forget that class will end and make my students late if they don’t remind me (ie: Me: “ok, everybody get two dowels, a rolling pin, and a pound of clay.” Student: “class ends in 5 minutes.” Me: “nevermind, everybody clean up.”

I can’t remember how old people are - including myself, my Dh, and my kids. I can remember what year they are born, so I remind myself what year it is now and do the math.

Always have to check the date. Even if I checked the date five minutes ago.

I will ask students “did you know so and so?” No? “They graduated/taught here a couple of years ago.” On further thought, actually in 2010.

Also, my daughter says I believe “time is flat” as in the sequence of events does not matter.

Example - when I was a teenager I was horsing around with a casual friend and physically injured him. I felt very bad about that. Every time I remembered it, I felt bad about it. 35 years later he acquired a position of authority in which he did some things I find morally reprehensible. I no longer feel at all bad about the injury. Serves him right.

I can't remember when things happen. I can remember the thing happening (usually in detail), but sometimes I will remember doing a thing before I have actually done it too, so it can be confusing.

Yes, I have no sense of time at all - including the micro scale, like I don't know when to start moving my arm to hit the ball when it's in the right place.
Like, I'm lacking some sense other people seem to have.

But I do have a sense of rythm. For me, it's something entirely different than sense of time.

This is an interesting link.
Do you know who else does not know time.
It is PETER PAN.

Peter lives his whole life without a sense of time.

The interesting thing is Peter Pan is real. He is a little different type of human, a right dominant brain.

I'm certainly not very good at sensing the passage of time. I'm often surprised when I look at a clock. These days I often don't know what day of the week it is. I think that's because now I'm retired I don't often have to know, having very few appointments to keep. When I had a job, obviously I had to know whether or not it was the weekend, and how close I was to Friday was a matter of great importance to me. I've only ever been vaguely aware of the date.

But if it was so easy for other people to sense these things, they'd not have invented clocks and calendars. So maybe I'm not unusual. I've never taken part in a time-sensing competition.

I have no idea what your talking about

I sometimes will struggle with passage of time. It seems like time passes very differently for me than it does for the neurotypical people that I know. I am glad you started this thread because I am curious if many Autistic people experience time differently than non Autistic people.

I frequently forget which season it is. I mix up autumn and spring a lot since they're similar weather, but it's also happened with summer / winter if I'm indoors. Sunlight or cloud through a window doesn't mean much unless I walk up to the window to look at the ground for dead grass / green grass. It's a momentary lapse and I can always figure out the season if I think about it, but it does happen.

Month: Yes, sometimes I forget the month briefly.

Date: I get the teen numbers mixed up. I usually know when it's 1st-10th (ish), but after that it all a blur until around the 21st.

Day of Week: I never have a clue, except that weekends feel like weekends (I hate weekends). I have to check my laptop clock to know what day it is.

Time: I'm not great at guessing the actual time, but I can tell time elapsed fairly well.

Passage of Time: I can usually remember the exact date things happened in my long term memory. Give me a date from the past and I can recall something from that date. Strange, since I never even know what day it is.

I'll forget to have lunch every now and then.

Yet, I seem to intuitively know when the microwave is about to be finished.

Why those two things seem food connected, I'm not sure

Plenty of people are bad at guessing time. Otherwise they are just impatient

Some customers demand that I get them what they want as fast as they think I could do it. For example, a customer made me get the barbeque key. The customer did not know that only the manager has a key, there's only one manager, the manager could be anywhere in the building and I have to go around looking for the manager

At least the key was not in a merchandise

Those lil dipshits act like they are always in a hurry and I am getting in their way

Entitled lil as*holes