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time was and is totally meaningless to me. I don’t understand it. I think weeks have passed since an event and it’s been a year, or I think it’s been months and 10 years have gone past. I just can’t get to grips with how long ago my memories are unless I can root them in the time frame of a bigger event that I know happened at a certain point.
It’s not just my past that confuses me. Now is an issue too. I have a conversation with my hsuband and I think an hour has passed and it’s been 10 minutes or I think I’ve been working on something for an hour and it’s been 10 minutes.
Once, when our eldest child was young, we decided to have a go at ‘controlled crying’ to help him learn how to sleep. We said we’d wait 5 minutes before going to him. We sat and waited when he began crying. I listened to him and began thinking about whether I was doing the right thing, what he was feeling with no-one going to him, his cry began to really get to me and I eventually stood up and said I just couldn’t do it. It was FAR too long for me to sit listening to that.
My husband told me a whole 7 seconds had passed.
Nope. Time and I are not good friends.
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