The ADHD Skills Lab Why You Always Underestimate Time (Even When You Swear You Won’t)
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Jun 30, 2025 Time blindness can make a 15-minute task feel like it takes 45. Discover how ADHD impacts time perception and working memory. Uncover intriguing studies about the connection between these challenges and your daily life. Explore the fun of a quirky monkey timer that visually tracks time, and hear about innovative tools and games designed to enhance time management skills. If you often wonder where the time goes, this discussion offers relatable insights and practical solutions.
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Comprehensive Nature of Time Blindness
- Time blindness includes multiple challenges: time discrimination, time estimation, and time reproduction.
- These difficulties affect estimating duration, perceiving intervals, and reproducing time periods accurately.
Time Blindness in Meetings
- Presenting in a meeting without visible timing cues causes rushing or distraction.
- This illustrates struggles with time reproduction and estimation firsthand.
Timing Deficits and Working Memory
- Children with ADHD show significant impairments in all types of timing tasks.
- Working memory deficits appear linked to these time perception issues.