[gms7777]

I think especially as adults (esp. people that managed to get to adulthood without being diagnosed), a lot of people think they don't have certain symptoms, when really they just have developed elaborate systems for managing those symptoms.

I never related to "time blindness" because I was always consistently early for things, but really I was just deeply anxious about being on time for things. I would set like 10 alarms set, I wouldn't be able to do anything for an hour or two beforehand because I was worried about being late, and I'd usually show up way too early because I couldn't actually estimate when I needed to start getting ready to be on time. That doesn't exactly sound like the behavior of someone with a functional inner clock.

[DrewADesign]

Yeah time blindness is my arch nemesis… but it has led to some pretty serious grit and persistence for difficult things under pressure. You need me to start on an arduous, long, difficult task right this second? No problem. You need me to do something on February 23rd 2027 at 4:30am in Anchorage Alaska? Should be fine as long as I’m still using the same calendaring system then. You need me to chip away at a background task steadily for two weeks? I hope you really mean you need me to work on other neat cool things for 13 days, panic, and stay up all night getting it done. (Apparently adrenaline is great for focus, too)

[LtdJorge]

Fck, you just described me.

[DrewADesign]

Yeah I mean you can’t get much more classic ADHD than that.

[fuzzfactor]

Also one of the fairly rewarding things can be to feel needed, regardless of whether everybody pays attention to it or not :)

One of the more non-rewarding things can be deadlines, especially destructive ones.

[andoando]

People can develop fears of anything from a multitude of reasons. There is nothing to say there is a singular cause for your behavior.

We may both even have 5 similar symptoms caused by different things