Dr. Stephanie Sarkis

And so they were using humor as a way to kind of smooth things over.

But on a one-on-one basis, this isn't something that you would talk to someone about in front of other people, but on a one-on-one basis, you say, you know, let's go out for coffee.

Let's do a phone call and you can talk about how this is impacting you.

And that's what good relationships are based on is open communication.

I think the accountability piece is, I'm sorry I hurt you.

Here are some things I'm doing to help with this.

And if your friend doesn't do that and instead says, well, you should just adapt to me, then you have to decide, is this something that you really want to be invested in?

Because we invest our time in people.

And we have to decide, is this a person that we feel respected by, cared for by?

And is this someone that is willing to be accountable?

Because it's really hard to be friends with people that aren't accountable for their behavior.

Thanks for having me.

I think when we think of choice, we have to be kind of careful with that because when we are running late or we are getting in trouble with friends or family because of our time perception issues,

is different or in school you're waiting until the last minute to get projects done, sometimes there's a moral thing of, well, if you just tried harder, if you just worked more at what you're doing, if you weren't lazy.

So I think that when people run late, they generally do want to be on time.

Who doesn't want to please their partner or friends or

So we need to look at the fact that this might be related to issues with the brain, particularly executive functions, which are in the frontal lobe.

It depends.

It depends.

Some people have procrastination that has a brain back reason for it.