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ADHD Lessons I: Time Blindness
Naming the mental traps so as to recognize and escape them
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Introduction
Another brief personal reflection piece today as I ease my way back into meaningful reading and watching. (Thank the House for Piranesi, which I finally picked back up late last week and has enthralled me wonderfully. And Mike Flanagan for Midnight Mass, as potent as ever on my current rewatch.)
I also just turned thirty, which has prompted me toward a little more reflection and resolution over the past few days. And rather than returning to the past as I did a few weeks ago, today I want to focus on more of the ADHD-related issues I’ve been learning about and working on recently. Two months ago I discussed a frustration with my ADHD-related executive dysfunction; feeling overwhelmed, needing to physically and mentally declutter, and yet experiencing a lot of frustration in trying to actually do so.
A few other things I’ve been learning more about recently: time blindness, uncertainty intolerance, rejection-sensitive dysphoria, emotional dysregulation, high self-criticism, and how all of these lovely pals sometimes get together to…
