A lot of us with ADHD are familiar with the concept of time blindness, but for anyone who isn't: it's a neurological inability to have a consistent sense of the passage of time. If you put me in an empty room, gave me a button and told me to press it when I think it's been 15 minutes, I might press it after..... idk, anywhere between 3 minutes and 2 hours? And if we repeated it the next day the result would probably be wildly different!

But something I've only seen mentioned in one (1) Reddit post, which took some extensive digging to find, is the same effect extending to ALL things measured in numbers. Distance, weight, length, height, amount, space, volume, percentage... For me, small numbers are a bit easier, I could approximate a centimetre probably, but a metre would be much harder and 10 or 100 would likely miss the mark by a lot. Also, anything that can't be easily measured with a ruler or a measuring tape (like weight or volume) is even harder since I don't encounter reference points (like a 1kg hand weight) for those as frequently as I see visual representations of specific lengths.

It's not dyscalculia or anything like that, I'm decent at math (and the OP of the Reddit post was a math major) and I have no other difficulties with numbers, it's just a disconnect in translating real life experiences like sensory input into numbers (and possibly also inconsistent processing of sensory input? Like how the same sound volume is okay one day but hurts my ears the next?), which I think is basically the same thing as what happens with time blindness. For now I've been calling it "measurement blindness" since I've never seen a name for it anywhere, but maybe "quantity blindness" could also work?

I've talked to other people with time blindness to see if they experience this too, but so far none of them have known what I'm talking about. I'd really like to know how many of us are out there and if anyone knows literally anything actually scientific about this very inconvenient phenomenon!

Tl;dr: bc I am wordy:

It's like time blindness but for all things measured in numbers

Not dyscalculia or caused by it

Pretty much never seen it talked about anywhere

Please tell me if it sounds familiar and/or you know something about it, thank

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Catra antis go fuck yourself and stay away from me. I don't vibe with blaming the victim. Seriously fuck off.

Literally the most heartbreaking scene in OPM is those 6 pages in chapter 147 where child emperor is stuck underground and like legit doesn’t know if he’s going to be alive in 20 minutes 😭😭 why is this ten year old writing his last words to his ex boss?? Why is a ten year old writing his last words?? Bro where are your parents?????? Who let you come on this trip 😭 this kid (in what he thinks could be his last moments) sends in reconnaissance, updates on the battle, a call for aid (not for him in particular tho), AND STEPS MOVING FORWARD FOR THE S CLASSES IF HE DIES????? Wtf 😭😭 he is ten and I’m in tears who allowed this. “All I can do is hold my breath and wait.” THATS THE MOST HEARTBREAKING THING IVE EVER HEARD FROM A KID WHOSE MAIN PROBLEMS IN LIFE SHOULD BE THAT HIS MOM PACKED THE WRONG FLAVOUR OF GUMMY SNACKS FOR HIM 😭💀

PPP finding him aside I AM CRYING

HES SO TINY WHO LET THIS HAPPEN

nothing annoys me more than people who can’t be bothered to vote despite the country making it SO SO EASY to vote

thinking about writing 🧑‍💻🥰📑💕✏️♥️❤️✍️💖💖💗🐴

actually writing 🧑‍💻😢😔☹️📝😩😣✍️🤔💭🤨✏️🧐🐴

they come and preach to us about 'argentina is white' 'argentina is racist' and don't look at their own history & present. we know better than anyone about how strong racism is here!! those affected by it live through it every day, you can easily see it in your day to day life and we learn about most of the genocides at school. we have the biggest jewish community in Latin America, a big muslim community, many people of different native tribes, afroargentines, etc. all of this data is easy to find with a quick research. you're not fucking helping by reproducing white supremacists discourse. who do you think benefits from the 'white argentina' idea?

every time my friends and i get drunk in a public park it feels like trc

I saw a charity campaigning "run for autism" and the charity goes to early diagnosis and getting support and has a lot of good info on autism and now i think i want to take up running so i can get a social media tile that says "im running 70km for me" the same way some of them say "im running for my child/my friend/the 1 in 70 Australians with autism"

even on lesbian dating apps i still find a way to fight with straight men

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insane country i'm in right now

i cannot believe they cancelled in person church due to the weather. we are canadians for crying out loud.

I woke up several times in the night and lay listening to the sea roar, it was loud. I gave up trying to sleep when Hubs was getting ready for work and trying so hard to be very quiet. When I looked out the window a thick sea fog had rolled in. That was it I was going for a run. I love a good fog. By the time I got out the door the fog was mostly gone but I could still see the last drifts as I reached the sand dunes and looked south down the beach. I ran north for a few kilometres. I had the beach all to myself so I stopped and drew a line in the sand. I toed the line and set off an imaginary start pistol and off I ran for 1 kilometre down the beach. When that km clicked over I slowed to my usual pace and ran home with a few photo stops along the way. What a great way to start the day.

when someone reblogs something from me:

"I am a fucking trend setter"

My new year's resolution has been swiftly and solidly derailed by a sudden bout of tonsillitis.