ADHD Experts Podcast 424- Why Is Time So Slippery? Understanding Time Blindness in People with ADHD
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Oct 6, 2022 
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ADHD and Internal Clock Deficit
- People with ADHD lack an internal clock to judge task duration.
- This causes underestimating time needed and last-minute rushes.
Attention and Time Management
- Time management needs both seeing time and feeling future motivation.
- ADHD disrupts attention, causing distractibility and hyperfocus, impairing time awareness.
Future Myopia and Procrastination
- ADHD causes "future myopia" or a shorter time horizon.
- Things not happening "now" are pushed to the "not now" bucket, causing procrastination.