Time perception

[firemonkey]

I have posted several times recently about my difficulty judging how much time has passed . Here’s a link re schizophrenia and time perception.

Erratic time perception in schizophrenia

11 July 2017 Persons suffering from schizophrenia have a different perception of time than healthy individuals. There is far more variation in the way that a time interval is perceived by people with schizophrenic disorders than by those who do not have the condition. Patients with schizophrenia are also less precise when it comes to judging the temporal order of events. These are the conclusions drawn from the results of a meta-analysis undertaken by psychologists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), for which they evaluated 68 international publications from the past 65 years and compared the data of 957 schizophrenia patients with that of 1,060 healthy control persons. http://w…

It seems I’ve been hit with a double whammy as it’s also a factor with autism.

Time perception problems may explain autism symptoms

For people with autism, time is slippery concept

[Sardonic]

Yeah, my mom says that I have issues with both time perception and sequencing events. She says I don’t realize how long I’m doing something or that the events I’m describing happened, just not in that order. I’ll be honest, I seriously thought she was just lying about it to win arguments. I didn’t think it was actually a thing.