world goes faster than me

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Does anyone else get this feeling?

It feels like the world is going faster than me, like I'm expected to understand all of it and keep up and figure out all this data, but it's going faster than me.

If I can actually get a break I find that again, my sense of time is very off, I am feeling like it is going really fastcompared to how it should be going. But then it's just how it is.

What's a problem is the all the sensations being sent at me extra fast and needing to understand them and respond and just understanding the sensory sensations is so much work.

THIS!

i feel so slow and behind while the rest of the world is going through with ease.

i feel like im dragging a 10 ton cinderblock while everyone rides their bike past me.

I feel that way a lot and I get meltdowns because of it sometimes. Sometimes it feels like everything is spinning.

Can y'all post details of this? I am verry merry berry interested in this.

It's really hard to describe so I might be able to do it justice. But it feels like nothing makes sense. I think it happens when my emotions are really high and I am feeling many emotions at once and I get very overwhelmed. Or when I feel like no matter what I do I am completely inadequate. It literally feels like I can't keep up with all the things my mind is trying to process. It is very draining and exhausting and it just feels like everything is just spinning and I am stuck in the middle of it. I can't seem to make sense of much of anything.

Yes. I find myself wishing that things would just stay still for a moment so that I could work out what to do.

When I was 18, I worked as an assistant precinct registrar in an election (where I basically make sure the person hasn't voted yet, that they're in the correct precinct, and if they pass I initial a slip they can then take to the polling booths), after a while they moved me into the line where the people with the names that start with the least common letters would come up. Basically, even though I was 18 and fresh out of high school and everyone else was basically old people, I was much slower than they. When I was 19 and tried my hand at the Air Force, I had major problems keeping up with my personal area and was very slow to get dressed in my BDU's, which resulted in being yelled at. In retail and similar work, I was much slower than my co-workers, at working on cash registers as well as other tasks, which resulted in frustration being expressed by my co-workers.

On the other hand, I can usually drive pretty alright and generally react well to stuff--then again, I have had 3 accidents in the last year or so, so I don't know. I spend a lot of time ruminating over things said to me, particularly unexpected things that are unnerving, and I find that as I do so I catch a lot of stuff I did not understand at the time of the actual conversations. (It seems, then, that perplexity, which I think is related to the world going by too fast, is the motive.)

I can type pretty fast, though.

Yes, this seems to describe me. I know to some extent, NTs feel a similar thing in that they, or anyone, can look back at time which has passed and feel that it went by so fast, because when something is in your rear view mirror in life, it's no longer much of a thought, so of course it feels like it just flew by very fast. I know when I was like 20, I could not even really picture being 25 or something, it seemed like it was ages away, now I am 27 and feel like my 20s got stolen from me by some evil time gremlin or something. I understand everyone feels this way to some extent.

However, on top of this common feeling, I feel like just, present time goes by fast, I get lost so easily in thought, I can waste an hour and not even realize it. Like, literally, I start running an internal dialogue or something or thinking about things, then suddenly it is 1 or 2 hours later and I don't know what happened. This has happened to me in various jobs and in classes both in high school and college, I feel that this problem of having time "disappear" from me has caused a lot of problems for my life, as such I have been fired from many jobs and struggled a lot to keep up socially with my peers, so imagine this on top of other typical aspie traits and it's just a recipe for disaster for a young person in their 20s. Your 20s are intended to be used to build a portfolio or learn about investments or network with colleagues, I have been able to do none of these things and time won't wait for me to figure anything out.

I feel that as a transgendered woman, I have made strides with my transition though, scraping money for hormones and a surgery and now, a second upcoming surgery, but focusing on all this has made my professional/work life very miniscule. I know they say people going back to school in their 30s and even 40s is common these days, but even at 27 I feel scared of being an "older" student and having to socialize with 18 year olds and stuff in my classes, it feels like it would be even more hard than my past college experiences.

Sometimes I just wish I'd take a blow to the head and get some kind of prodigal awesome ability. On the Science Channel I was watching a special about a man who had a brain problem and just woke up in the hospital after having a burst blood vessel and, instead of dying, he was instantly a musical and artistic prodigy, with the hefty downside that his hearing was getting worse as a result and his need to play music was literally insatiable, but at least he had something special, I often feel like I am capable of a lot, but incapable of achieving things with my intelligence and lust for knowledge, it seems the smaller stumbling blocks in life continue to beat me down.

I'm slow (and inefficient) in all that I do, and time flies at near FTL speed, or so it seems.

I've given up trying to keep up with the world at the age of 16. The world was becoming too fast and sophisticated for me. I've entered a time warp at that age, because I got sick and tired of keeping up with the world and the times. I was the high school hippie until I graduated due to the fact that I along with most North Americans thought that what the 60s were all about. After I've read an article about Mods in a book on the 60s at the age of 19, I've decided that was more in line with my true interests. I've tried being with the times in my near past only to become cynical about mainstream society. I went back to my Mod roots and started listening to The Kinks like my two years of cynicism never happened at all. That's a good thing. It's better for me to be ordinary mop topped Kinks Fan CR than it is for me to try to be anything I'm not. Though I'm aware of of today's Top 40, fashions and popular culture, I keep a distance from it because I know what works for me and it's not today's trends. Those things make the world go very quickly. I know there are people here who might think it would be healthier for me to live in the present, but I know that's not me.

I'm glad to find here that I'm not the only one.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way. Seems like everyone else is up to date and knows everything about the latest technological gadgets while I'm lucky to even know how to use my cell-phone for calling people. My mother even has a tablet and knows all about using it, although she only really got it to use while on trips and stuff. I'm thinking of getting a tablet for my birthday next month but she wants me to try hers out before I actually get my own. Maybe I'll get a a web-cam instead?

I'm smart enough [barely] to use a dumber phone, but my older sister has a smarter phone. but at least I'm the only person I know who does DSP with audio.

I feel this way. It happens mostly when I'm in places that are overwhelming.

I should have known it was a bad idea but once I got a job working as a barista at a coffee shop. I got fired very quickly. I can't process what's going on around me quickly enough to do a job like that. I felt like everything was going way too fast, like I couldn't even think fast enough or act quickly enough. Everything was so overwhelming, it was like being caught in rapidly moving water and struggling to breath.

Now I have this problem in a different way mostly. I can hyperfocus for extended periods of time as long as I can stay home and stay absorbed in my interests. If I stay in the cycle of hyperfocusing 90% of the time that I'm awake I'll suddenly realize weeks or months have gone by without me really noticing much time has passed at all.