Sometime with grownups or kids with AD/HD or ADD time goes by very fast and very slow. Like when you are on the computer or doing something, time goes by very, very fast. For example, say I was on the computer and my brother was waiting to get on and each of us was only allowed to be on for 15 minutes. Sometimes, the just loos track of time and then my brother might sat you've been on 20 minutes and you are only supposed to be on for twenty minutes, but I would say I just got on because for me it felt like two minutes.
This is also a problem when my mom is on the phone. Once she told me she had only been on the phone for 2 minutes and to me I felt like she had been on for an hour. So for me the time was slow and for my mom the time was fast.
I think our mornings problems are about time, too. We kids feel like we have so much time, but then it is time for the bus. We say, but mom we just woke up and then mom will tell us we have been up an hour and a half, but to us it felt like 20 minutes and we were rushed. In my opinion and I think alot of other kids with adhd have opinion is too, is that they hate to be rushed.I don't know why, but it makes me feel like I have two minutes to do everything and that is a bad feeling.
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I think this is a good observation! I know that my daughter (a 16 year old girl with ADHD) struggles with time herself. And, she is always telling me "one more minute, Mom!" But, her one more minute takes a half hour or longer!
Mia--Brilliantly put!
I know many adults with ADHD who would completely agree with you. You have put into words what many of them feel, but don't always know how to put into words.
Great blog, kiddo! Keep writing!
Gina
lea:
I think that you should buy a timer or somthing like that and when she says "one more minute" you say I'm seting the timer for 5 min. so when the tmimer goes of and she says but it's only bii min. you say the timer went off she can't argue becuse she asked and got what she wanted and she should be happy she even got 5 min. more and it will come in handy if you said bed time in 1 hour and an hour passed she says but it's only bin 10 min. you say i set the timer for 1 hour and it went off and you wiil have prof and she will have to go to bed or stop what she is doing and you wont have to say it's bin half an hour
sincerly
Mia
Gina, if you have trouble putting things into words then you don't even have to put it into words. You can draw it or you make a comic book about it or sometimes you know what you are needing and you know what it is, but you can't explain it. You just have a find a way that you can talk about it or put down on paper. Because once somebody can understand how you are feeling then they can help you or they will just be able to talk about it with you. But anyway, it is better than keeping it inside.
Sincerely,
Mia
Why, that is very profound advice, Mia. Thank you.
Are you enjoying your blog? Is it hard to do?
Gina
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