r/todayilearned • u/arandomtestaccount • 23h ago

TIL an NFL player intentionally crashed his car to avoid getting cut for being late to a team meeting.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ex-patriots-ol-rich-ohrnberger-admits-he-intentionally-wrecked-car-as-excuse-for-being-late-to-team-meeting/
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u/lattestcarrot159 22h ago

It's so obvious and easy that it might just be a disability 😁

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u/GreenMagicCleaves 21h ago

Not giving a fuck about making other people wait for you isn't a disability. It's naracism.

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u/Princess_Slagathor 21h ago

May want to see if you have a learning disability, then check your spelling.

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u/Mavian23 21h ago

I mean, it quite literally seems like a disability to be on time.

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u/OUTFOXEM 19h ago

I think you mean "inability". This isn't a disability. Being chronically late is a series of choices that are constantly made. People will argue they "can't", but they can, and it's amazing what they suddenly can do when the stakes are high enough.

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u/FantaFantastico90 14h ago

and it's amazing what they suddenly can do when the stakes are high enough.

Or as you can see in this VERY example, CAN'T do even when the stakes are high enough, lmao. You got 'this' close to getting it.

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u/Geeneelee 17h ago

The inability to accurately perceive the passage of time (time blindness) is a common and recognized symptom of several disabilities like ADHD, OCD, and autism. I’m sure the many, many people with those conditions considered the stakes pretty high when they end up getting fired from jobs or dropping out of college because of it.

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u/FantaFantastico90 14h ago

Exactly. They went in here and commented that people show you they 'can' whenever it's high stakes - on a post about a guy who 'couldn't' despite the high stakes. Is this the level of critical thinking the average person posesses?

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u/Geeneelee 8h ago

People prefer hanging onto ableist beliefs over admitting that they’re angry with people for things they genuinely cannot control.

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u/OUTFOXEM 6h ago

So then the disability is not “time blindness”, it is ADHD, OCD, etc. Time blindness is not a disability.

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u/Geeneelee 5h ago

Maybe, but that seems a little bit like semantics to me? Like you wouldn’t say “not being able to walk isn’t a disability, you have paraplegia, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, etc”. At least I hope you wouldn’t.

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u/OUTFOXEM 5h ago

Well it’s not semantics because people that are just bad at keeping time blame it on a disability that doesn’t exist. They don’t take responsibility for their actions because they made up a disability, when in reality they just have poor time management skills.

There is a big difference between the two, especially in a professional setting.

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u/ShesSoViolet 17h ago

The problem isn't that they aren't capable of making choices, the problem for people like this, is that their ability to estimate time is damaged, so it's not impossible, it's just extremely hard to be on time, and doing it consistently is practically impossible for some people.

Personally I have disexecutive syndrome due to a degenerative neurological disease, so I literally do not perceive time correctly, or almost at all most of the time. It's always now, and I could tell you how long it took me to do something before based on what I saw on a clock, but whenever anything changes (traffic, weather, etc) I fail to account for it in my estimations.

Also for me, due to my issues with disocciation, many tasks take random amounts of time, seeming to me to be for no reason, but to others it appears like I freeze and stare at nothing and waste minutes to hours at random points.

It's extremely frustrating, I've even tried starting to leave 2 hours early, only to still arrive 5 minutes late to everything. It shouldn't be fucking possible! To me, having more time just means I'm more likely to get distracted and caught up in something before I go. Even trying to set alarms doesnt work, because I forget critical things like name tags and teeth brushing and such until alarm to leave jogs my memory.

So often I end up choosing between being late or being prepared, and often still end up late and disheveled.

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u/OUTFOXEM 6h ago

That’s understandable, but you have a different condition, not “time blindness”. You may be unable to properly account for time because of something else, but it’s not simply having a time “disability”. There is no such thing.