I have Tachypsychia?(time seems slow due to fast psyche)

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I was wondering why I seem to always be in a hurry and time seems so warped and weird to me and everything seems to take ages.
Then I read about Tachypsychia and it makes perfect sense.
It seems to me that my responses are slow for example. Like when someone asks me something it >seems< to me that I must be boring them because it takes ages for me to answer, while in reality people tell me that I speak very fast and impulsively or alike.

Another thing is when I'm doing something it seems to me that 2 minutes take about 20 minutes. Like I was at the grocery store with a family member and I went to find something and I found it "eventually". It felt like 15-20 minutes and I thought the other person might be waiting and might also be supper P***sed at me for taking this long to find my shampoo. So I asked her and she said I was away from her for max 1-2 minutes, and she hadn't got her stuff yet.

This is actually spooky. I have probably wrote all this in 3 minutes minute. but I have the feeling that I'm writing this post since 20 minutes. But at least I know it now and maybe I can adjust myself to that. (like not being ashamed of being sluggish, because I'm apparently the complete OPPOSITE)

Has anyone had a similar experience? I can't find anything about autism causing Tachypsychia, but bipolar does, and I'm also suspected to have mild bipolar. But I'm really wondering whether this could be an asperger's thing which has gone unnoticed mostly due to general incompetence of doctors, and also us being unable to describing how we feel.

Thanks for reading.

Gauging the passage of time, planning and multitasking are known issues with autism. I don't know if this quite syncs with the feeling of consistent dilated time passage (as I understand from your description) though.
I'm curious if you're hurried because it constantly feels like you're falling behind, or because you're naturally spry.

That's awesome.

I am crazy fast and more so because I am absurdly efficient. When I was younger I used to make myself motion sick from it but at this age I am used to it. I just for some reason do a lot of regular things kinda like a "super worker" (you can search youtube for what that looks like). I know exactly what you mean, time does move really slowly. I also have a VERY VERY hard time when people ask me when something happened or ...."How many years ago was that..." I not only don;t know it seems like a crazy request to me.

I think there is a TON of stuff that has not been documented with autism. I have many other experiences that I have learned gradually are not at all typical. Thank you for sharing this and...again it's super cool.

I used to be really spry but my brain can't do that anymore. I can still do stuff very fast and efficiently but only for a very limited amount of time but then I get pretty exhausted and useless and can't go on doing whatever I was doing and need to lay down.

When I was in high school, I was pretty fast and efficient (except social crap, that is). But i suppose at some point my brain started to deteriorate because of all the fastness and now I'm rather an idiot, nevertheless with very brief moments of brilliance and genius.

Oh yeah, this is a big one for me.

Being really freaking fast is pretty much my whole gimmick. I dont mean physically.... you couldnt pay me to run down a track or something. No, I mean mentally. What I'm known for, among those that know me at all, is typically sheer speed. Mental processing speed, and then reaction speed/reflexes. I am very, VERY quick.

Comes into play alot since I'm into gaming. When it comes to competitive games, it's usually a great advantage. In one-on-one fighting games for instance, I'll do most of the winning, even against very high-ranking players. My opponent typically will KNOW more than me, and probably trained like crazy (whereas I'm too lazy to do that), but I'll win anyway simply due to sheer, overwhelming speed. Even if that other player is 20 years younger than I am. In all of my years of gaming I have met one and only one person that could keep up with that speed.

There's one other bit to it, which I can also demonstrate with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fktC9WKgS00

If you've not seen that sort of game before, the idea is simple: Dont get hit, not even once. A million zillion bullets fly at you, dont get hit anyway. If it looks like I am getting hit, only the very center of my ship can actually register an impact (it's how these games work, they'd be literally impossible otherwise). This type of game is usually referred to as "bullet hell" for obvious reasons, and is typically considered the most difficult type of game there is. This specific mode in this specific game keeps altering the difficulty and attack patterns based on the player's skill level, which is why it's extra bonkers here. As you will see though, I will not get hit.

I'm able to mentally process & track LOTS of things at once. Lots... and lots of things. I dont beat games like that by memorizing stuff.... my memory is bloody horrid. No, I can do it because I can register and track every moving thing at once, and thus react not just fast enough, but properly, not moving in the wrong directions for the situation or something.

Side effect: if I have to do this with too many things at once for too long, I'll actually start to physically overheat. No, I dont know why. Friends of mine think it's funny.


Outside of gaming, it definitely applies to driving. Reacting that fast and being able to have full awareness of all things in vision range and their movement has obvious uses.

The problem is that, well.... all of this is pretty much the only real skill/ability I have. Was utterly useless in school, even more useless when I used to have to work jobs. I'd be at a job and think I'd been there for like 5 hours. Then I'd look up and like, 40 minutes of brain-melting dullness would have passed. Uuuuuuuugh.

Also, it all makes me EXTREMELY impatient. Many things may as well be in slow motion as far as I'm concerned, and boring stuff just STRETCHES into forever. I can mentally track many things, but if there isnt ENOUGH to track at once, my mind will also start to wander, leading to frequent blank-outs and confusion. So, when stuff ISNT happening, I can seem extra airheaded and vacant.... not a good thing in most situations, no. And it meant I was a TERRIBLE student in school. I mean, most classes, the ONLY thing to mentally follow was a lecture, and that lecture was stupidly boring, so.... yeah. My grades were awful, and every school day just seemed to never freaking end.

I think this is just a function of the fact that autistic brains can work really fast in certain specialized ways. I also get the super worker label and find I have to work fast to make time go faster. Doing less is not an option due to a horrible feeling of boredom if I stop. Very few people can keep up with me at work. Perversely, of course, many NT's feel threatened by my speed. I have actually had a colleague report me for 'doing all the work', before. I hate when time lags and am always racing to do something. I am immensely impatient, because of this. It has taken me years to realize that most NT's cannot keep up. I always thought they were just lazy.

It's not exactly the same thing, but my aspie wife has trouble keeping time. She's often shocked when a whole hour has gone by, or doesn't sense urgency when we're late for something. Sometimes I even have to tell her what year it is.

I have avoid this problem myself by having a lot of clocks in the house, and I look at them constantly.