Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

I get distracted easily.

We know that there are problems with things like emotional regulation.

So it's hard to regulate my emotions.

I sort of get angry easily or I get frustrated very easily.

So we're aware of some of these deficits in ADHD.

But time blindness is one of these deficits that we don't sort of think about quite as much.

even though it has profound impacts on our life.

So I've seen time blindness lead to things like divorce.

So these are spouses who are chronically late to things, who can't be counted on to follow through and stick with plans.

I've also seen graduate students that I've worked with who will get sort of threatened or even kicked out of programs because they can't meet deadlines.

So let's take something simple like procrastination.

So we all know that people with ADHD procrastinate.

It's a part of the disease, right?

It's a part of this executive function deficit where we have difficulty planning and executing tasks.

So if I were to ask you, if you've got ADHD, how long would it take you to do your homework?

you'd say something like, I have no way of knowing because it could take 30 minutes or it could take three days because that's our experience with ADHD.

Our brain has no way to calculate how much time a task will take.

Now, we make a fundamental mistake here, which is that we think that the reason we can't calculate it is because it's so inconsistent, but that's technically not true.

There's actually an impairment in our brain's ability to estimate time.

Now, if your brain cannot calculate