Dr. Stephanie Sarkis

A lot of shame because people are treated differently.

They're treated differently by friends and family.

They're being told that, well, you don't really care about me because you didn't show up on time.

And this is a person that really makes every effort to try to be on time, but it just doesn't happen.

And sometimes they don't know why it's happening.

They know that they have a hard time estimating time, but it's made such a huge impact in their relationships.

It's even led to relationship breakups.

Yeah, it can be tied to social anxiety and other types of anxiety.

So if you show up early to something and you're the only one, there's only about two other people there, it can really put a lot of pressure on you socially to interact.

So that could be an issue.

Also, what do I do if I show up early and I don't have other people that I can kind of monitor or observe to see what I'm supposed to do?

It can create a lot of issues for people.

I think we need to look at that this is someone that's probably not doing this personally to you, right?

It's something that someone struggles with.

And people do live with shame and guilt because they're not able to be on time.

Now, if she's on time for work, maybe it's that there's immediate sanctions if she doesn't show up on time at work.

But we hope that the people that we live with, the people that we're related to are going to be a little bit easier on us and love us unconditionally.

And so we can be ourselves.

So there's not as much pressure.

So the flip side of that is that she's probably a wonderful person, has a great personality.