Your ADHD brain doesn't experience time the way other brains do.
For most people, the future feels increasingly real and urgent the closer it gets. There's an internal sense of time passing, of deadlines approaching.
For the ADHD brain? Time sorts into two categories: now and not now. And not now doesn't feel real - even when you logically know it is.
A meeting tomorrow and a dentist appointment four months from now live in the same mental space. Neither feels pressing until it crosses over into now territory.
Dr. Russell Barkley calls this nearsightedness of time. And once you understand it, so much about your ADHD brain starts to make sense.
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