6.1d time blindness is difficulty judging the passing of time or planning ahead

People with ADHD struggle with time-blindness and conceptualising the future. This affects an ADHDers ability to forward plan, among other things.

I sometimes describe this as only being about to think in terms of now and not now.

It's almost like an extreme version of presentism; all that exists to the ADHD is the present moment, the now.

Anything that might happen in the future (and to some extent, things that happened in the past) is relegated to the not now and the ADHD brain finds it difficult to think about anything in the not now. This is as true for the doctor's appointment happening in three weeks time as it is the party tomorrow night. The enjoyability of the event does not make much of a difference.

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