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Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

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HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

It comes from the suprachiasmatic nucleus, and we'll get into more detail.

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

So at the end of the video today, we're actually going to tap in a member of our scientific advisory board, Dr. Michaela Thorderson, who specializes in skilling up people with neurodiversity.

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

So she specializes in skills building, uses a lot of worksheets and things like that.

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

So I'm all about like theory and neuroscience and spirituality and stuff.

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

She's excellent at this stuff.

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

We're going to be tapping her in at the end of the video because this is where she really specializes in helping people level up some of these skills that are necessary.

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

She's also going to be holding a social skills workshop for neurodiversity if y'all are interested in that.

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

So stay tuned at the end of the video.

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

There'll be some info about that, okay?

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

Second problem that we have with ADHD is our estimation...

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

So what does this mean?

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

So this is basically our brain trying to figure out how long a task will take.

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

A neurotypical person will be able to make a calculated guess how long a task will take.

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

But if you have ADHD, the brain's capacity to estimate that time will be deficient in some way.

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

Now, we kind of already talked about this, but this is where we need to go into more detail because we will see how an inability to estimate time creates a lot of problems.

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

So remember that when we can't estimate something properly, we could do an overestimate or an underestimate.

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

And depending on which one we do, this creates a lot of the problems that chances are you struggle with.

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

So if we overestimate the amount of time it takes.

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

So what that means is let's say that doing my homework actually takes an hour.

HealthyGamerGG
Time Blindness & Why You Keep Being Late

But I tend to overestimate the time.