Poll Do You Have a Bad Sense of Time?

[Deleted member 1606]

Yup

Yes, people sometimes get mad at me cuz I can't remember if something happened 6 months ago or 6 years ago.

 

[midi]

I am terrible with time - as if it doesn't exist at all.

 

[tardis]

I do often forget what day it is, but as far as actual time goes I am quite the opposite. I seem to have a highly accurate internal clock. My family is amazed as I can usually judge the exact time within about 10-15 minutes without seeing it displayed.

 

[Other]

I have a very strong internal clock, and I generally just "know" what time it is. Days, months, and even years, on the other hand, I don't follow so well. I think a lot of that has to do with isolation. And I don't use any kind of cellphone or pocket organizer, so I rarely have any idea what the date is unless it is close to some holiday.

-Other

 

[FlameTachiku]

I said yes. It really makes me crazy because i am an honest person and people expect that i will know what happen 6 months ago or 2 years ago if it is a major event. But i just have to give it my best shot. I do not have a working time line and even trying terrorizes me. I remember events that happen but i can not put them in order. Especially if it was painful.

Daily time is a breeze, i am rarely late or miss an appointment unless the PTSD symptoms have totally hyjacked my brain.

 

[OhSoLittleMouse]

My short term memory was damaged either by the massive amounts of chemo that I received (chemo brain or chemo fog), but PTSD could be involved as well.

I can remember the ingredients to a recipe, but often can't remember if I had just taken a pill or not.

Other than that, my sense of time as far as hours and minutes go is awesome. I was a publicist by career, so minutes and hours are instilled in me like clockwork.

 

[LovinHuggin]

I am terrible with time - as if it doesn't exist at all.

Yeah it's sort of like this for me. I don't tend to know how long I'm in the shower for or how long my meal has been cooking for and I'm quite often late.

 

[mamachick]

I seem to loose track of time and I question if it is not a form of dissociation. I think its been an hour and its been several. Its almost as if I cant account for time but its not as if I cant remember, I think it just takes me much longer to do the same tasks.

 

[freakofnurture]

I'm lost in time, lost in space (and meaning :D) and can't read clocks and watches. I also have problems converting times between the 12:30- and half past twelve-notation (which in German is 'half to one', and really confusing, which is why I regularly fail to realise that 12:30 means that it's only half an hour until one o'clock).
Guess who's late quite often? But at least I call to let people know I'll be late. And I swear, tying my shoe laces sometimes takes five minutes, although I do it just as fast as always. It's crazy.

 

[Srain]

Does the sun come up in the morning?

 

[elizabethnueve]

Yeah it's sort of like this for me. I don't tend to know how long I'm in the shower for or how long my meal has been cooking for and I'm quite often late.

The same here.

 

[kimba]

I'm so afraid of being late for things that I have nightmares about it and I am often up to an hour early (just in case). Once in while the timing works out great as something does happen, but usually I am just really early. I was born 2 months early and I'll just joke that I was born to be early.