Autism and Time

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When ever this is mentioned this film clip pops into my head!

Someone once told me that the shortest science fiction novel ever written consisted of three words.

"Time ended....yesterday."

Lolololzzz .... ...hmmm. very astute.

I can become over-focused on time, and it goes painfully slow if I keep track of it all of the time.

So I avoid things like watches and just use the time on my electronic devices, for the most part. That way, when I am not looking at a screen I can tune out of the time.

Despite that, I can almost accurately tell the exact time without a watch, if prompted, in any case.

I guess the original poster could tell us what the thread is supposed to be about. Meanwhile, looking at the original post - "Do you ever feel as if time is moving faster or slower than usual?" etc., I'd say it's about changes in the subjective perception of time within the same individual.

That's not to say that your concept isn't interesting. What they're doing in your above example is using their own height as a yardstick to arrive at a comparative value - shorter than me, taller than me, etc. And they may or may not be aware that it's a comparative value rather than an absolute one. Most humans would say an ant is small. To an ant, an ant is presumably not particularly small or large. For some reason I prefer to avoid calling an ant small, and instead would probably measure its size in micrometers.

With the time perception thing, I'm not sure what the yardstick would be. Doesn't mean that there isn't one of course. Perhaps some internal process that was being used as a clock. These things can be difficult to think clearly about. I can see how one person - or species - might perceive time as running faster or slower than another person or species.

Yeah. You'd think it would be the slow days that are most miserable, but it's actually the fast days for me. Feels like life is slipping away faster than I can remember it. I'd choose feeling bored and impatient over that any day.