Autism and Time

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JosetteJoy
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09 Dec 2023, 5:53 pm

Do you ever feel as if time is moving faster or slower than usual? I've felt that on bad days, time seems to go faster and the world more chaotic.

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09 Dec 2023, 6:44 pm

I usually feel like time is going faster when I've got a lot to do.
And time goes really slowly when I haven't had my evening nap

I've learned not to pay too much attention to the clock, it can make me overwhelmed.

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09 Dec 2023, 7:52 pm

Yes, if I don't often look at a clock I'm often surprised how much or little time has gone by since I last checked. It seems to fly when I'm focussing strongly, and I usually am focussing strongly.

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09 Dec 2023, 8:23 pm

Dyschronometria - a relevant part in executive dysfunctions.

And the sensitivity over one's current mental state, which is relevant to internal processing.

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09 Dec 2023, 9:41 pm

I find that time moves very fast for me.

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JosetteJoy
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09 Dec 2023, 10:10 pm

I read something a while ago that people with autism experience time faster than neurotypicals. It may not be true, but I definitely feel it at times.

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09 Dec 2023, 10:26 pm

Sometimes I feel like I perceive time completely differently than other people. I may not know what date it is, much less what month it is. I may not know what time it is and so on. And it won’t bother me at all. And the too fast pace of our world does not give me time to structure my thoughts and understand what to do next. Because of this, I often find myself in very unpleasant situations

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13 Jan 2024, 2:04 pm

JosetteJoy wrote:

I read something a while ago that people with autism experience time faster than neurotypicals. It may not be true, but I definitely feel it at times.

I wonder how you would measure at what speed different people experience time.

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13 Jan 2024, 3:51 pm

Edna3362 wrote:

Dyschronometria - a relevant part in executive dysfunctions.

And the sensitivity over one's current mental state, which is relevant to internal processing.

Nice. Did'nt know about that one.

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13 Jan 2024, 8:44 pm

BillyTree wrote:

JosetteJoy wrote:

I read something a while ago that people with autism experience time faster than neurotypicals. It may not be true, but I definitely feel it at times.

I wonder how you would measure at what speed different people experience time.

I guess they'd just expose people to an event of known duration, and then ask them how long they thought the event had lasted.

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/ob ... ty-of-time

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14 Jan 2024, 4:15 am

ToughDiamond wrote:

BillyTree wrote:

JosetteJoy wrote:

I read something a while ago that people with autism experience time faster than neurotypicals. It may not be true, but I definitely feel it at times.

I wonder how you would measure at what speed different people experience time.

I guess they'd just expose people to an event of known duration, and then ask them how long they thought the event had lasted.

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/ob ... ty-of-time

That's testing the internal timekeeping. I assumed "experience time faster" meant you realized an event had lasted an hour but you experienced an hour as a shorter time period than neurotypicals do. In other words that Autistics mental pictures of a second, an hour etc are that they are shorter time periods than for neurotypicals.

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14 Jan 2024, 4:23 am

My processing speed is below average so, yeah, time goes faster for me.
In general, I think this is a neurodivergent trait. It takes me more time than I think to finish a task, but I think it's because I have ADHD too.

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14 Jan 2024, 5:57 am

I don't have a good sense of time at all

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14 Jan 2024, 1:50 pm

BillyTree wrote:

ToughDiamond wrote:

BillyTree wrote:

JosetteJoy wrote:

I read something a while ago that people with autism experience time faster than neurotypicals. It may not be true, but I definitely feel it at times.

I wonder how you would measure at what speed different people experience time.

I guess they'd just expose people to an event of known duration, and then ask them how long they thought the event had lasted.

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/ob ... ty-of-time

Oh, you must mean the subjective experience, like the idea that some people may subjectively experience red as blue, and there's no way to demonstrate it. I guess it wouldn't be possible to demonstrate a difference in subjective time experience either. Hmm.......is absence of evidence the same thing as evidence of absence?

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14 Jan 2024, 3:22 pm

ToughDiamond wrote:

BillyTree wrote:

I mean the subjective experience like that a 200 cm person experience a 180 cm person as short while a 170 cm person experience the 180 cm person as tall, but they both estimate the persons height to be 180 cm.

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14 Jan 2024, 3:35 pm

Interesting about aporoximating height of a person ...? ...!
Very Poor sense if timing ..gets worse as health issues increase .. strange thing. Have just given up on being on time cause my brain can start to preseverate on anything ? a memory , a physical thing like , regarding tasks to be done . So to compensate time issues . :oops: .have set all clocks in the house all the time to approximately 15 minutes fast. But am on time ..much more often . .

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