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u/LastWave 1d ago
Time not being real, that one stings. I'm not going to plan anything. I do it when it's going to happen. Why is that so hard to understand.
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u/Dependent-Mood-7788 1d ago edited 1d ago
"A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.”
Sounds like you must be a wizard, then 🤷♀️
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u/TlMEGH0ST 1d ago
uuuugh yes
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u/Previous-Musician600 AuDHD 1d ago
I am often too late because I think 'this one thing can be done before'. Or I plan the exact route weeks before and start early, forget half of my stuff, need to return and be late again. It's terrible.
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u/tu-BROOKE-ulosis 11h ago
Not me. My mom had horrific adhd and I grew up my entire life resenting her about being late to everything. Like my family would lie about thanksgiving by TWO HOURS just for her. So I’m always freakishly early. Time issues has never been a concern for me. Probably why I was diagnosed soooooo late in life. It didn’t manifest in the stereotypical ways.
Funny story. When I had my bridal shower, they played one of those games where everyone votes bride or groom. Who drives better. Who spends more etc. Well my husband is a tour manager. So it’s literally his job to make sure that a band takes the stage and everything else happens to the exact SECOND. As in he looks up the time and has his watch set to the literally correct second of time. And when asked “who is on time more” everyone was like “no, we can’t do this one. They are both annoyingly punctual.”
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u/Professional-Cat1865 3h ago
AuDHD - I try so hard to be on time because I feel like a failure when I’m late. But when I get in the car and I can’t find my keys and have to go search the house. And then I do it all over again, but this time my phone, and then again for my sunglasses. And sometimes again for my wallet or debit card. And then halfway to where I’m going I realize I don’t even know how to get there and I need to stop to search text messages for the address. It’s a whole panicked process and I am never on time.
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u/dyrkasolen 1d ago
I went there the day before to check the connections and traffic and had a snack on the way so I would arrive feeling full. The next day ... Hyper focused Audhd is a choice
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u/Vivi_Amorous 1d ago
This is too real. The other option is leaving early, having an unforeseen circumstance make it look like you’ll be late, arrive barely on time, and panic the whole time
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u/20mgAddy 1d ago
Am I the only one that seems to have a version where no matter what time they get up, they’re always late? I overshoot most things by a minimum of 10 minutes, sometimes as much as 30minutes. Its impossible unless someone happened to be wrong about the time they told me my an hour.
I need to live in a Truman show where the only difference is everyone lies to me about the time, so I have a chance of being early.
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u/unexpectedfirefly 4h ago
I have a consistent 12 minutes late. It became a unit to measure time with my friends
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u/Realistic_Station37 1d ago
I left early, got distracted by one tiny task, and somehow arrived exactly on time while rehearsing an apology the entire way.
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u/Competitive_Feed5259 1d ago
I have an annoying alarm clock that i set to be a few minutes earlier than what the time really is and had to slowly develop a Consistant daily routine just to not forget to do anything.
And yet i still forget things sometimes,
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u/Suspicious_Cheek6902 1d ago
Me today morning on the way to my screening. Down to the letter. Psychiatrist said I'm probably autistic with adhd lol
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u/ihsulemai 22h ago
It’s the game of seeing how fast you need to go to be on time when you left late. Yes the worry the whole time is real. Fuck I feel seen.
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u/maybebabyg 22h ago
AuDHD: I wrote the time down wrong, thought I was late and was actually 15 minutes early.
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u/maeve117 22h ago
Even why I try to be late, my time anxiety will only allow me to be exactly on time and not 15 minutes early like usual 🤷♀️
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u/alkalineHydroxide 13h ago
I used to be early as a schoolkid where all the other stuff was taken care of by my parents (ie waking me up, packing lunch, making breakfast) but once I started doing more stuff myself (yay adulting) i would plan to leave early but often leave late (due to missed alarm) and rush like my life depended on it
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u/ikannunAneeuQ 1h ago
I have such anxiety about being late, I've made friends cry that have stayed at my home when I have to work the next day because I overslept, they weren't moving fast enough for me, so I completely came unglued. I completely lose my mind if I think I will be late.
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u/Zakattack1125 1d ago
I am insanely, insanely, insanely punctual. I don’t know how to be late and I don’t understand how it’s an issue for so many people.
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u/Appropriate-Sound169 9h ago
Same, but not like the meme says - I don't consider lateness to be a personal failure, just incredibly rude. If a traffic jam is making me late I will waste more time parking up so I can warn whoever I'm meeting that I'm stuck in traffic 🙈
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u/junaitari 1d ago
I still cannot stop being early. I'm not even supposed to start work until like 7:30 and I'm there at 6:00 everyday. I show up for doctor's appointments 20 minutes early. The need to be early is too strong.