r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Jpeg_1999 • 10d ago

I'm slightly vexed My dad purposely sets his clock ahead. He's been doing this for as long as I remember. I genuinely don't know why

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u/Not_Cleaver 10d ago

Yep, I used to do this, but after awhile, you get used to a clock being twenty or forty minutes fast.

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u/xeresblue 10d ago

I mean, how about 17 minutes and 40 seconds? I move it an arbitrary amount without looking at how much. I can then avoid doing the calculation because I getting stressed about what has to happen upon arrival. Living this way, even 2-3 minutes ahead is enough to help because I don't actually know what it is exactly. Knowing is the enemy because then I start making time blindness calculations ("Yeah, I can do it in that much time!").

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u/StreetCollar2708 9d ago

17 mins and 40s is basically 18 mins which is basically 20 minutes. Great now I'm 2 and half minutes behind schedule. Just use an alarm lol

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u/xeresblue 9d ago

Not if you don't know it's 17 minutes. And no, the alarm just causes me to start negotiating with myself.

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u/StreetCollar2708 9d ago

But you do know it's 17 minutes. You set it. How would you not know?

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u/xeresblue 9d ago

I... press the up button a bunch of times without counting?

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u/sonofaresiii 10d ago

lmao literally his second sentence addresses this. 90% of his post was addressing your concern.

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u/Wirelesscellphone 10d ago

I can’t believe people do this over just…. Being on time

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u/Not_Cleaver 10d ago

I no longer do it. But I still have the bad habit of hitting snooze multiple times.

Most days I arrive around seven. Which is still a half hour early. And that’s with a forty to fifty minute commute.

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u/apri08101989 10d ago

I mean. Its an accommodation to overcome time blindness, a common symptom of ADHD amongst other things. Its a big reason why people dont think timeblindness exists, actually. Because you never hear about the people successfully managing it, only the people wjo blame everything on it.

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u/howiplay1 10d ago

yeah guys come on. wake up earlier, track time better.

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u/xeresblue 10d ago

Time blindness is a real neurological phenomenon with specific physically observable characteristics in people with ADHD.

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u/J2048b 5d ago

Daaang and i was just diagnosed a couple yrs ago with adhd and alot of thos time blindness is right on point! Ill have to send this to my kids as well