Mah Dudes!

A lot of us with ADHD are familiar with the concept of time blindness, but for anyone who isn't: it's a neurological inability to have a consistent sense of the passage of time. If you put me in an empty room, gave me a button and told me to press it when I think it's been 15 minutes, I might press it after..... idk, anywhere between 3 minutes and 2 hours? And if we repeated it the next day the result would probably be wildly different!

But something I've only seen mentioned in one (1) Reddit post, which took some extensive digging to find, is the same effect extending to ALL things measured in numbers. Distance, weight, length, height, amount, space, volume, percentage... For me, small numbers are a bit easier, I could approximate a centimetre probably, but a metre would be much harder and 10 or 100 would likely miss the mark by a lot. Also, anything that can't be easily measured with a ruler or a measuring tape (like weight or volume) is even harder since I don't encounter reference points (like a 1kg hand weight) for those as frequently as I see visual representations of specific lengths.

It's not dyscalculia or anything like that, I'm decent at math (and the OP of the Reddit post was a math major) and I have no other difficulties with numbers, it's just a disconnect in translating real life experiences like sensory input into numbers (and possibly also inconsistent processing of sensory input? Like how the same sound volume is okay one day but hurts my ears the next?), which I think is basically the same thing as what happens with time blindness. For now I've been calling it "measurement blindness" since I've never seen a name for it anywhere, but maybe "quantity blindness" could also work?

I've talked to other people with time blindness to see if they experience this too, but so far none of them have known what I'm talking about. I'd really like to know how many of us are out there and if anyone knows literally anything actually scientific about this very inconvenient phenomenon!

Tl;dr: bc I am wordy:

Oh wait I know this one! So I’ve spent about 5 years doing maker education for a library—like literally developing projects that people can then use to recreate using a cricut or a laser cutter or a 3D printer. Most of these projects involve a digital file. And one thing I learned almost immediately is that numbers mean fuck all nothing to me if I don’t have something physical to relate them to. Especially early on I had to paper piece things together, get them to the size I wanted and then measure them to create the digital file. And even then it wasn’t 100%.

Witness my mess

I’m not sure I ever got this file quite where I wanted it to be.

There is a thing called Nonverbal Learning Disability. It’s not in the DSM yet but it kind of addresses some of what you’re talking about. Folks with NVLD tend to have issues with spatial processing.

From the stuff I’ve read some folks with this are also diagnosed with ADHD. And it kind of makes sense. A lot of people I know with ADHD have issues processing their own bodies in space. We constantly run into door handles, the corner of a table, or the door jam.

A lot of us with ADHD are familiar with the concept of time blindness, but for anyone who isn't: it's a neurological inability to have a consistent sense of the passage of time. If you put me in an empty room, gave me a button and told me to press it when I think it's been 15 minutes, I might press it after..... idk, anywhere between 3 minutes and 2 hours? And if we repeated it the next day the result would probably be wildly different!

But something I've only seen mentioned in one (1) Reddit post, which took some extensive digging to find, is the same effect extending to ALL things measured in numbers. Distance, weight, length, height, amount, space, volume, percentage... For me, small numbers are a bit easier, I could approximate a centimetre probably, but a metre would be much harder and 10 or 100 would likely miss the mark by a lot. Also, anything that can't be easily measured with a ruler or a measuring tape (like weight or volume) is even harder since I don't encounter reference points (like a 1kg hand weight) for those as frequently as I see visual representations of specific lengths.

It's not dyscalculia or anything like that, I'm decent at math (and the OP of the Reddit post was a math major) and I have no other difficulties with numbers, it's just a disconnect in translating real life experiences like sensory input into numbers (and possibly also inconsistent processing of sensory input? Like how the same sound volume is okay one day but hurts my ears the next?), which I think is basically the same thing as what happens with time blindness. For now I've been calling it "measurement blindness" since I've never seen a name for it anywhere, but maybe "quantity blindness" could also work?

I've talked to other people with time blindness to see if they experience this too, but so far none of them have known what I'm talking about. I'd really like to know how many of us are out there and if anyone knows literally anything actually scientific about this very inconvenient phenomenon!

Tl;dr: bc I am wordy:

Oh wait I know this one! So I’ve spent about 5 years doing maker education for a library—like literally developing projects that people can then use to recreate using a cricut or a laser cutter or a 3D printer. Most of these projects involve a digital file. And one thing I learned almost immediately is that numbers mean fuck all nothing to me if I don’t have something physical to relate them to. Especially early on I had to paper piece things together, get them to the size I wanted and then measure them to create the digital file. And even then it wasn’t 100%.

Witness my mess

I’m not sure I ever got this file quite where I wanted it to be.

There is a thing called Nonverbal Learning Disability. It’s not in the DSM yet but it kind of addresses some of what you’re talking about. Folks with NVLD tend to have issues with spatial processing.

From the stuff I’ve read some folks with this are also diagnosed with ADHD. And it kind of makes sense. A lot of people I know with ADHD have issues processing their own bodies in space. We constantly run into door handles, the corner of a table, or the door jam.

Reynard and kyward.

Shows how much credibility Scotus has lost.

Even Harvard is *openly* bragging about it’s going to use your own loopholes to ignore you.

My suspicion: Harvard rates of accepting black students will continue at roughly the same rate.

Hey, you can’t prove they *aren’t* still doing Affirmative Action.

Skating the rules, sure. But so is accepting so many bribes and vacations and gifts from billionaires when you know you aren’t supposed to.

How about you advocate for merit-based admission, rather than race-based admission? It isnt that hard.

You can absolutely also be against people getting in through "donations" (bribes) as well as people getting in through discrimination.

The fact that youre so against equality when groups you dont care about benefit (apparently including asians) is really telling of how your activism is more performative rather than you actually being against unfair treatment.

The double standards are...unfortunate, but not surprsing.

That, or Sharona thinks it's not "unfair" if it's done against the correct people.

"I'm mad when the bad thing happens, except when it happens to people I don't like."

aw shit, back at it again with the over-decorated dnd characters-

meet Tzikss’Akha Zhetithi, a glamorous Yuan-ti bard living the high life in patches of long grass

WHO HAS THIS KIND OF TIME IM GONNA SCREAM YALL

@tooiconic 3 SHOTS OF VODKA

@wereralph This has supreme you energy

@pangur-and-grim look at my domestic boy

A lot of us with ADHD are familiar with the concept of time blindness, but for anyone who isn't: it's a neurological inability to have a consistent sense of the passage of time. If you put me in an empty room, gave me a button and told me to press it when I think it's been 15 minutes, I might press it after..... idk, anywhere between 3 minutes and 2 hours? And if we repeated it the next day the result would probably be wildly different!

But something I've only seen mentioned in one (1) Reddit post, which took some extensive digging to find, is the same effect extending to ALL things measured in numbers. Distance, weight, length, height, amount, space, volume, percentage... For me, small numbers are a bit easier, I could approximate a centimetre probably, but a metre would be much harder and 10 or 100 would likely miss the mark by a lot. Also, anything that can't be easily measured with a ruler or a measuring tape (like weight or volume) is even harder since I don't encounter reference points (like a 1kg hand weight) for those as frequently as I see visual representations of specific lengths.

It's not dyscalculia or anything like that, I'm decent at math (and the OP of the Reddit post was a math major) and I have no other difficulties with numbers, it's just a disconnect in translating real life experiences like sensory input into numbers (and possibly also inconsistent processing of sensory input? Like how the same sound volume is okay one day but hurts my ears the next?), which I think is basically the same thing as what happens with time blindness. For now I've been calling it "measurement blindness" since I've never seen a name for it anywhere, but maybe "quantity blindness" could also work?

I've talked to other people with time blindness to see if they experience this too, but so far none of them have known what I'm talking about. I'd really like to know how many of us are out there and if anyone knows literally anything actually scientific about this very inconvenient phenomenon!

Tl;dr: bc I am wordy:

Huh there are other people with this?

A lot of us with ADHD are familiar with the concept of time blindness, but for anyone who isn't: it's a neurological inability to have a consistent sense of the passage of time. If you put me in an empty room, gave me a button and told me to press it when I think it's been 15 minutes, I might press it after..... idk, anywhere between 3 minutes and 2 hours? And if we repeated it the next day the result would probably be wildly different!

But something I've only seen mentioned in one (1) Reddit post, which took some extensive digging to find, is the same effect extending to ALL things measured in numbers. Distance, weight, length, height, amount, space, volume, percentage... For me, small numbers are a bit easier, I could approximate a centimetre probably, but a metre would be much harder and 10 or 100 would likely miss the mark by a lot. Also, anything that can't be easily measured with a ruler or a measuring tape (like weight or volume) is even harder since I don't encounter reference points (like a 1kg hand weight) for those as frequently as I see visual representations of specific lengths.

It's not dyscalculia or anything like that, I'm decent at math (and the OP of the Reddit post was a math major) and I have no other difficulties with numbers, it's just a disconnect in translating real life experiences like sensory input into numbers (and possibly also inconsistent processing of sensory input? Like how the same sound volume is okay one day but hurts my ears the next?), which I think is basically the same thing as what happens with time blindness. For now I've been calling it "measurement blindness" since I've never seen a name for it anywhere, but maybe "quantity blindness" could also work?

I've talked to other people with time blindness to see if they experience this too, but so far none of them have known what I'm talking about. I'd really like to know how many of us are out there and if anyone knows literally anything actually scientific about this very inconvenient phenomenon!

Tl;dr: bc I am wordy:

-The bard moments before being dropped from 800 feet in the air by a dragon.

Dave Rapoza

please for the love of god read the rest it’s hilarious

Worst thing ever in the whole world is when a thunderstorm is forecasted and then it doesn’t storm. literally so rude I was excited for this all day.

Draconic saying of devotion, typically romantic, but sometimes used otherwise 💕🥰💕

PIZZA PARTY

pepperman and vigilante are fist fighting on the lawn and noisette is passed out in the bathroom (she had one (1) drink)

“ugh this character is so annoying and immature” this character is 14

"This teenage character is unsympathetic". So were you. Grow up.

Not me I was born an empath. I cried after being born bc the nurse was sad her husband left her. Maybe you should grow up instead.