perception of time and sequence of events

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well i've just realised i have discalculia.

i can do left and right and clockfaces, but the rest of the stuff...no

(I can tell the time (O my poor mother, O how she laments at the difficulty in getting me to say ## past # or ## to # as I always said it #:##; this goes back to my verbal impairment though).)

I can tell when something happens and place it in chronological order with previous events as I view everything as "pictures"; they're easy to sort and stack. I lack the ability to care if I'm early or late, I'll arrive when I arrive (I lack punctuality and empathy).

I am hopeless with time , i never know what day of the week it is for sure. And i cant tell wether i did something today or yesterday or this week or last week , its a real nuisance.
i have been watching Big brother and one thing that has fascinated me is this . The people live in a house where there are no clocks and yet they seem to be able to know the time of day and the day of week almost to the minute , ive heard them frequently guess at the time and are usually with in 20 minuts often 5 minutes of the real time. i find this amazing.

I have temporal issues. I cant track time and rely on cross-referencing to sequence events disparate in time. I suspect that I also rely to a degree on 'detailing' to sequence events themselves (in my youth I could recount conversations verbatim from years earlier, based on recall of my own response, be it verbal or merely in thought/perspective; this trait drove my mother crazy in my youth as if she contradicted something she'd said earlier, I'd immediately be able to recount the earlier utterances and even prove to her satisfaction that she had indeed said exactly what I recalled she had said).

I have absolutely no sense of time. Something could have happened just yesterday, and when talking to someone I will still say "the other day"... same when I'm talking about something that happened a few months ago, or even a year ago. It's always "the other day". I never know what time it is, or how long roughly I have before doing something, and I almost always show up places half hour early because I think it takes longer to drive there. It doesn't matter how many times I've driven to someone's house, I will still show up half an hour early because I have no clue how long it takes when it comes to figuring out when to leave.

don't know what the first part of the starting post meant,but am have no sense of time,am also diagnosed as autistic,ADHD,complex needs and multiple learning difficulties,don't know which is to blame.
am able to tell it is day when it is light sky,and it is night,when it is dark sky.

One of the reason I have been a compulsive journal/blog keeper for many years is a coping mechanism for just this type of thing.

I have a horrible sense of passage of time AND chronology....and have difficulty remembering events that happend a few days ago...So alot of what I don't write down simply dissipates into the ether. I can seldom if ever tell someone exactly when i did something. I would be a nightmare of a witness were I ever to have to testify in court about something.

I kinda blame sensory overload to a certain extent...though it can feel sorta alsheimers-y

A small example of how this has negatively affected me is a really awful exerience i had a while back with an irate customer at my day job.....I told her I had been trying to return her call over the course of a couple of hours....when really it had only been 45 minutes...so she accused me of lying and exaggerating, when in reality I simply had no concept of the time span...(and tried to tell her that)...didn't fly well...i must say.