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19 Feb 2011, 12:55 am

Time is for me only a quantification on the amount of cycle we see in life that we can relate too. I mean we count one day as a revolution of the earth in relation to itself (360 degree). You know that hours, minutes, seconds are also a way to measure an angle, which is the basic for our time measurement up to date. So I comply with your statement saying time doesn't exist, because it's a concept.

That lead me to say that the only thing we can manage in time is the cycle of our activities. To be able to work in society you need a common measurement so everyone can be synchronised. This is where you need an agenda or a watch. Maybe aspies just don't have the same neurological time reference as NT does, not the same "CPU frequency". Time is relative! Someone brillant said that ;) .



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19 Feb 2011, 1:07 am

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My standard answers for when things happened in the recent past are "the other day" (which could be any other day besides today, right?) and "a couple weeks ago" if the person asks for something more specific. I just can't judge if it was 2 weeks, 6 weeks, or 6 months. For longer terms, I have references like "when I was little", "when I lived with my parents", "when I lived with my cousin", etc., but to specify how long ago those were requires me to do math based off of a fixed date. (I have to calculate how old I am when someone asks me too.)

I have difficulty planning for the future as well. Even if I know a specific date on which something is going to happen, when the day arrives, I do not associate it with the date and the event.

Yes... but I usually end up asking them what year it is when they ask how old I am! :lol: Maybe I should just say the year I was born.
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Lots to think about. While nobody describes the exact same thing, it seems there is a certain disjointed sense of time going on here. So is this an aspie thing?

I think so. The "needs everything at the same time each day" stereotype is also time-weird.



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19 Feb 2011, 3:09 am

I believe that NT and AS people experience time management difficulties to the same degree.

My personal guess is that people with AS have a superior sense of time because they have fewer social distractions.



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19 Feb 2011, 3:32 am

Puppygnu wrote:
I believe that NT and AS people experience time management difficulties to the same degree.

My personal guess is that people with AS have a superior sense of time because they have fewer social distractions.




With the level of hyperfocus I experience on my special interests I lose all track of time completely.

I certainly don't have a "superior" sense of time at all.

Fewer social distractions yes.


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19 Feb 2011, 3:51 am

Puppygnu wrote:
I believe that NT and AS people experience time management difficulties to the same degree.

My personal guess is that people with AS have a superior sense of time because they have fewer social distractions.

Ime, no. I've never met anyone irl who has even close to the same time difficulties that I do, and what I see online doesn't change the picture.

If anything, NTs should have a superior sense of time because they need to know the time to attend to their social distractions. Heck, time could be said to be one of those social distractions - in life as I'd ideally like to live it, time would be irrelevant.



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19 Feb 2011, 7:32 am

Puppygnu wrote:
I believe that NT and AS people experience time management difficulties to the same degree.

My personal guess is that people with AS have a superior sense of time because they have fewer social distractions.


Not the NTs that I'm around. Time management is the primary deficit in my job performance that keeps others advancing and me stuck going nowhere.

NTs seem to have time management issues when they get overloaded with too many tasks. Some are better at time management than others. But I've yet to meet one that is as bad at it as me.


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19 Feb 2011, 10:37 am

Puppygnu wrote:
My personal guess is that people with AS have a superior sense of time because they have fewer social distractions.
Not me. No social life whatever, yet I have to do certain things by the list. I don't have much concept of it being the 'right time' or 'necessary' to do something unless it's the time that I usually do it, or I've procrastinated until it must be done right now.
Straightforward repetition of timed events, not having a sense that something requires planning in order to arrive at a time at which to complete it.
It's Friday, 14:00 so it's time to go shopping. If I run out of food on Thursday then I have to work out how to handle it. If I have enough food left on Friday I still go shopping anyway, and struggle to not buy the usual things.
I doubt that qualifies as a superior sense of time. :lol:


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18 Mar 2012, 8:45 pm

Cornflake wrote:
Puppygnu wrote:
My personal guess is that people with AS have a superior sense of time because they have fewer social distractions.
Not me. No social life whatever, yet I have to do certain things by the list. I don't have much concept of it being the 'right time' or 'necessary' to do something unless it's the time that I usually do it, or I've procrastinated until it must be done right now.
Straightforward repetition of timed events, not having a sense that something requires planning in order to arrive at a time at which to complete it.
It's Friday, 14:00 so it's time to go shopping. If I run out of food on Thursday then I have to work out how to handle it. If I have enough food left on Friday I still go shopping anyway, and struggle to not buy the usual things.
I doubt that qualifies as a superior sense of time. :lol:

Yeah, that's mostly me as well.

I do not plan a lot either because my plans never work out. I never consider the existence of distractions like other people, so I plan too much. I don't know how I'm supposed to do it. I sometimes wonder whether it would be good to be locked away from every distraction, so I get anything done. But that is unrealistic. ^^

I have to call someone next week and I am already wondering how long it will take me to actually do it. Um... So a lot of time will have to be lost due to that. ^^

I think not doing certain things that I absolutely loathe is the main reason why I can't do everything on time. XD


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