Were you ever obsessed with time?

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nope- never.

i thought i was common in having little to no concept of time- thought lots of ASDs had this?

cant be obsessed by somethng some nebulous. perhaps its linked to my noon maths-ness?

though i did have a watch once and checked it constantly until it drove me mad and i stopped wearing it.

For a few months, I was noticing that every time I looked up at a digital clock, it said, "3:33" or "4:44" or something like that. It was weird. I like that, though.

I do the thing with the years, too. I was at the store buying something, and the total price came to $19.46, which is Alan Rickman's birth year. I didn't say anything to anyone, because I know better, but inside, I was like, "Wheeeeeee-heee!! ! Oh boy!! !" Heh heh! (Thank goodness for WP, where I can say things like that and people will understand, and not say, "There there, we'll just put you in this nice padded room." )

I'm not totally obsessed with time or dates, but I do notice those little things and get a kick out of it.

But now that this topic has come up, I have seem to have a recurring image in my mind of David Tennant's Doctor Who describing a "great big, wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey thing."

I'm more interested in knowing what time it is in various places around the world.

Changing the clocks back and forth due to the beginning and end of Daylight Savings Time annoys me to no end, though.

If it were up to me, we'd keep the clocks set to maximize daylight hours year round. Would cut down on residential electric light usage too.

The recording of time is a means by which two very common interests can come together: numbers and rhythm.

Most of my stims are related closely to the natural rhythms of my body. (I posit that the second has the approximate duration that it does because it is closely related to the human heartbeat). Thus, counting down or counting up time is closely linked to the natural sensations of rhythm in our bodies.

Numbers are also a fascination of mine. I will wait for the digital clock to read "11:23:58" or "11:13:59". While the microwave is reheating my lunch for 3 minutes, I will be furiously working out the prime factorizations from 180 to 0 (well, to 2..) While waiting for the bus, in the morning, I will be patiently counting up the time.

I don't think that I am unique in these things.

Cool, someone who shares my "hobby"! Why would people want to lock one up for things like this? It's fun and it's harmless, isn't it? Oh, my clock says 19:29 - Wall Street crash...

I used to be obsessed with patterns in time. Think I was about 7 or 8 then. Used to pause whenever the clock showed, for example, 21:12 and would only move once the minute was up. I grew out of it thankfully.

Only when I needed to watch my shows or something important was coming up like lunch time or appointments.

I used to be obsessed with pallandromic time, especially 8:08.

And even weirder is this was YEARS before the Lazytown obsession.

I'm still obsessed with time. If I'm 5 minutes late for work, or if I leave 5 minutes early, then I think I'll get the sack for it. If I have to work 5 minutes beyond my normal hours, I feel like somebody's stolen half my life.

I set up timers so that I don't have to keep my eye on the clock so much, but I still find it difficult to just get on with a thing without worrying about how long I've got left.

I've got slightly better than I used to be, by using my own brand of CBT on it - when I catch myself feeling time-anxious, I just try to tell myself that 5 minutes doesn't usually matter much, and usually I see the point and then I can relax a bit more.

Does anyone else "see" time? I see years as a three-dimensional tapemeasure when it comes to my life, with a bend at the year I'm at, running off into the distance. My twenties are visible, my childhood and teen years are behind me and my thirties are on the other side of the bend.

The year is a square with round corners on Dec/Jan, March/April, May/June and August/September. I know that makes some seasons "too long", but that's the way it is. Autumn seems much longer than spring to me. It also spirals at the end of the year into the next one.

The month itself is just like a treadmill and I can see it in front of me.

I hope I'm not the only one. When I've described it to others they think I'm weird. But if you can't see time how do you know what it is?

I see time as well. Though to me the years are round.

Clocks, stopwatches, 24-hour and 12-hour clocks, timezones and all the rest.

I think so. And it has come to the point where I know what time it is, all the time, within minutes. I don't have a watch so I use my cell phone as a clock and I know intuitively what time it will be, when I wake up, when I've been reading for a while, etc...meaning when I have not been conscious of the passage of time I still know what time it is. It freaks me out. But I think it is just from obsessing when I was younger.

... I can't reply to this thread at the moment. It's time for my evening nap.

In seriousness, yes. I'm ultra punctual with everything and hate to be late or anyone else to be late. Arriving five minutes late for any appointment or meeting is deserving of the death penalty. I get really stressed if I think I'm going to be late.

Time has the ability to frighten or shock me.......Oh my goodness is that the time....... 1/2 hour feels like 2 hours or more and vice versa. Or one minute it is light and then.......it is dark. For those of you interested in time travel I have it in the bag

and the spelling of "time"......strange word........oh no its stuck........tiiiimmmmeee

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