Do Aspies have problems with time???

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Do you feel that time is a problem to you as an Aspie? Does it pass too fast or too slow?

Personally, time seems to fly quickly by. I never have enough time to do my work. It may because I am slow or get distracted, but days go by and I have a hard time understanding where the time went.

Do you have any problems with time distortion like this?

I have every alarm on my cell phone set just so I don't lose track of time and forget to get my grandsons off to the bus, or pick them up when the bus drops them off, things like that. I will often get so absorbed in what I'm doing that I suddenly look up and find that it's dark and two hours past dinnertime. I don't know if it's an Aspie trait or not, but I do know what you're talking about. ;D

Yes, that's exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about. I don't know any NTs that share that trait, they seem to be in control of time as far as I can see. But I look at the clock, look at it again a "few minutes later" (to me) and 5-6 hours have flown by. I have a clock in each room of my house, but it doesn't seem to help me control my time.

I only recently began to think this may be related to AS so thought I'd ask the question here.

Today, two hours seemed like forever because there was no time for me to look at. My mother had the computer and I didn't even bother to look at the clock in the kitchen.

I have no concept of time whatsoever. It seems to speed up and slow down at will...

For me, the only time that time seemed to stand still was during school hours.

I'm missing the sense of time. I often forget what day or month it is, I can not remember the time when I write or draw, I can not remember the time at all... What is more I am afraid of clocks... Especially those ticking clocks, wrrrr

Time is either too fast or too slow for me.

I'm often not good at judging whether I have lots of time or not. Often I'll feel that I have lots of time, when I haven't, though I know it in my mind. Therefore I often come too late for lectures or meetings, and always get too late out of the door to get to the train (I always reach it miraculously though). I also know the thing about getting absorbed in something.
I think it's an aspie thing. Kind of an executive dysfunction / inertia thing.

If I am absorbed in any of my special interests or have had a busy day at work the time seems to fly by.

I am better at managing my time than I used to be, but I guess its an aspie thing indeed.

Wow. What you all have said. Time is a mystery to my poor brain. I cannot judge time accurately at all. And it flies by in bunches, years lately. And I do get totally absorbed in what I'm researching and there goes another day. "Kind of an executive dysfunction / inertia thing." Oh yes, definitely. It also, for me, has something to do with an avoidance of transitions, a strange reluctance to switch gears and start a different type of activity.

I make lists and have to MAKE myself do physical things I really want to do. Finally guilt about not doing what I should be doing drives me out of some all-consuming time bending interest.

What I find frustrating is that I can introspect and see all this, yet the next day it is all too easy to fall into this trap of physical inertia -- certainly not mental inertia but a sort of procrastination of "getting to" my list of chores I really have to do -- dishes, laundry, projects, etc.

That's not really a time distortion. Just lack of executive mind monitoring time flow. A lot of people experience this.

I have a problem with time in that I don't know how to make schedules. I have specific things to do in a specific order. I do them regardless of whether or not I will make a deadline, even if they are not important. If I fall behind schedule, I have no notion of how to cut unnecessary things to get back on track in time to make a deadline. I can't estimate how to do a set amount of tasks in a given time.

I'm late for everything.

if i am doing what i want, then time goes fast.
if i am doing something i do not want like waiting, then time goes slow.

i can usually tell the time of day without looking at my watch, but i rarely take notice of the time of day.

Yes, after reading the replies here I see it is likely an executive mind monitoring thing rather than time distortion. It seems like time distortion to me, but time itself is really a constant. It is the executive mind monitoring problem that makes time seem distorted.

I get that too, but sometimes I can judge the length of time that has passed and be correct within a few minutes. I can judge time very well, but when it comes to dates, I am at a loss

I have had a time distortion experience. That was in the middle of an emergency. Time seemed to slow down and I could move as fast as my muscles could move. But maybe that was only in my imagination afterward, because the emergency turned on very high memory recording rates of my sensory information input, replaying it was like a complex, slow movie. I.e. perhaps the "movie" that I had stored of the event was sampled at a much higher rate because all my senses were on alert, and so when I replayed it, it seemed like time was slow and I was moving fast. But then again maybe because of the emergency situation, my mind switched on my higher-speed neural pathways of my subconscious and focused all my attention, conscious and subconscious, on the events (whole brain lit up). So maybe because of the emergency situation, my brain just became much more focused and alert and less distracted, and my processing sped up.

In either case, I had the sensation of time slowing down.

In cases where time flies by, that is my executive function being low-functioning due to my being distracted or my being un-self-aware. Most of my time and scheduling problems are presumably due to executive function limitations.