Time blindness doesn’t just make it hard to be hopeful—it straight-up hijacks your ability to picture a future that’s any different from how things have gone in the past or how they’re going now.
And if your mind is busy whispering past = future, then what’s the point in even trying, right?
Here’s what I’ve learned after years of wrestling with this: unless you take the time to understand how ADHD and autism actually work—how they show up in you—they will keep blindsiding you.
You’ll keep getting knocked down, left wondering what the hell happened and why life feels like an uphill battle in greased shoes.
But once you realize that your struggles are the consequence of a condition—not some giant neon sign flashing “I’m not good enough”—then you can finally start working with your brain instead of constantly fighting against it.
You can learn strategies, build accommodations, and figure out ways to outmaneuver the obstacles that tripped you up yesterday.
And it all starts with the first step: catch your brain in the act. Notice when it tries to convince you that the past = the future. Call it out. Write it down. Because the moment you question that story, you’ve already started changing it.
So tell me—when’s the last time your brain pulled this trick on you? And what are you gonna do about it now?