I'm with others who can't keep up with the year - whenever I write the date, I always add the year. 2016, to remind me. "Ok. I'm in 2016 right now." -And I already dread the change to 2017! Seriously, I need to train myself not to feel like an utterly embarrassing fool - the few days in my life I spend in public.
My watch has the month, date, AND day of the week. Not the year but I guess, as a non-working person, that is the easiest of the 3 to remember. Still, there are all kinds of problems. Even seemingly minor ones can be a pain in the neck. I've been on amazon, say, looking for covers for an older kindle. (Seriously, do they have to make each model half an inch different and require a new cover with each replacement model? Yes the complaints of the middle-class.) I'm always mixing up fall of 2015 with summer of 2016, or some other bizarre thing. I can't remember what month I bought what! Sometimes I think I've had something for a month, sometimes I realize it's been 2 years!
I can't keep things straight, though I do make an effort. A lot depends on how tired I am, or how isolated I have been - like if my therapist changes therapy days or something. We had the time change recently, and having it get dark so much earlier is an adjustment, too - the utterly bizarre changes around with Daylight Savings Time - these were things enacted to help out FARMERS. Not people who live in normal places like New Jersey. ;)
Something that adds to my confusion is that my sense of time is off - presumably due to dissociation ? - sometimes a few hours will go off in a blink, sometimes the minutes will crawl.
When I was going through competency examinations, applying for disability, whenever I was asked the day of the week I'd check my watch. That turned it into a moot point and the doctor had to come up with some other question to see if I was "oriented to space and time." (In case you haven't guessed... I wasn't.)
My watch has the month, date, AND day of the week. Not the year but I guess, as a non-working person, that is the easiest of the 3 to remember. Still, there are all kinds of problems. Even seemingly minor ones can be a pain in the neck. I've been on amazon, say, looking for covers for an older kindle. (Seriously, do they have to make each model half an inch different and require a new cover with each replacement model? Yes the complaints of the middle-class.) I'm always mixing up fall of 2015 with summer of 2016, or some other bizarre thing. I can't remember what month I bought what! Sometimes I think I've had something for a month, sometimes I realize it's been 2 years!
I can't keep things straight, though I do make an effort. A lot depends on how tired I am, or how isolated I have been - like if my therapist changes therapy days or something. We had the time change recently, and having it get dark so much earlier is an adjustment, too - the utterly bizarre changes around with Daylight Savings Time - these were things enacted to help out FARMERS. Not people who live in normal places like New Jersey. ;)
Something that adds to my confusion is that my sense of time is off - presumably due to dissociation ? - sometimes a few hours will go off in a blink, sometimes the minutes will crawl.
When I was going through competency examinations, applying for disability, whenever I was asked the day of the week I'd check my watch. That turned it into a moot point and the doctor had to come up with some other question to see if I was "oriented to space and time." (In case you haven't guessed... I wasn't.)
