Time Blindness

You thought you had twenty minutes. You looked up and ninety had passed. There was no signal that time was moving faster than you thought.

You're reliably late — not because you don't care, but because the time between now and when you need to leave always feels longer than it is.

You set multiple alarms because one isn't enough to interrupt wherever your attention goes. This is a system, not a preference.

Two hours and two weeks feel roughly the same in your forward sense of time. Both are just 'later.' The difference only becomes real when later arrives.

You've missed an appointment or event you were genuinely looking forward to. Not due to forgetting — due to misjudging how time was moving.

You tell yourself you'll start in five minutes. The five-minute estimate is sincere. The start doesn't happen inside it.

You lose entire afternoons to a single task you only meant to spend an hour on. There's no point where you decided to keep going — you just were.

Transitioning between tasks requires an external cue — an alarm, a person, something in the environment. The internal clock doesn't generate the signal.

You know the deadline is approaching. The urgency that should come with proximity doesn't arrive until it's almost too late — then arrives fast.

You've started pre-apologising for being late because you know it's likely. The knowledge doesn't solve the problem.