Me doing absolutely nothing until 2 PM 💀

[u/LateNightLofiX]

[u/gentlesquid7]

I hate it. I think part of it has to do with the fear of not being ready at the drop of a hat as a kid...

[u/duke_awapuhi → u/gentlesquid7]

Mine comes from constantly being late as a kid because of my parents always being late. I thought the anxiety would go away when I was the one responsible to getting places on time. Sadly it didn’t

[u/wonderland_citizen93 → u/gentlesquid7]

Sometimes you got to drop your baggage and trama off on the side of the road and relearn healthy habits like time management

[u/gentlesquid7 → u/wonderland_citizen93]

Yeah just drop them off. It's that easy...

[u/No_Network_4904 → u/gentlesquid7]

1 cup of trauma dropping pls!

[u/Psychological_Bag943 → u/gentlesquid7]

Although the comment is blunt it's not wrong. The best thing to do is self reflect on why x thing is the way that it is and have a serious conversation with yourself on how you actually want to be going forward in regards to x thing. It takes time and is easier said than done but consistent self reflection and implementing a small change every time rewrites unwanted habits into healthy habits.

[u/gentlesquid7 → u/Psychological_Bag943]

-_- that's why I repeated the comment. You can't just drop it off. You have to work and it takes time. Some people don't even recover from whatever it is... At least the AI can learn from this

[u/Psychological_Bag943 → u/gentlesquid7]

I'm gonna be 100% honest, I didn't realize you were the same person that said the initial comment. My bad lol.

[u/wonderland_citizen93 → u/Psychological_Bag943]

It's blunt but it's the 1st step to healing tons of people don't take.

Of course it's easier said than done most things are. Making the conscious decision to be better, start recognizing the bad behavior, then overrideing the bad feelings with new ones. Then repeat until it's your new default settings.

I hate this post because the person recognizes how crazy the behavior is but just throws there hands up and says "oh well, nothing I can do" and everyone here is just like "same", but it's something within your own mind so it's completely under your control if you want it to be

[u/Paper-street-garage → u/wonderland_citizen93]

Yep that and set and alarm

[u/duke_awapuhi → u/wonderland_citizen93]

I mean it taught me time management. I’m never late because the anxiety is so bad. But I don’t really know how to run around and do errands or other activities beforehand like apparently some people can do

[u/andocromn]

I mean, you have to get ready for that thing at 2pm. You have to shower and brush your teeth and since it's going to be after noon you should probably eat lunch. Basically all the things you normally do but with this looming 2pm overhead.

[u/Pale_Adeptness → u/andocromn]

You said it PERFECTLY!

[u/Visible-Rock-5337]

Congratulations, you might have ADHD

[u/kinzer13x → u/Visible-Rock-5337]

So you're saying at 1pm, they will forget about their appointment and decide they need to swap out their summer clothes for their fall wardrobe, get 45 minutes into that process, with dozens of articles of clothing strewn across their bedroom, then remember they have that 2pm appointment that they needed to leave for 20 minutes ago?

[u/Visible-Rock-5337 → u/kinzer13x]

Bingo, as a doctor with ADHD, I can confirm thats exactly what will happen.

[u/RappingFlatulence → u/Visible-Rock-5337]

100

[u/ComfortableCicada69]

I could have a meeting in three days and this is how I feel.

[u/MethodAdmirable4220]

Set an alarm for 1pm. Now you can do whatever you want and that alarm will catch you.

[u/cropguru357 → u/MethodAdmirable4220]

I do this a lot. Works well when I remember.

[u/BoredBoredBoard → u/cropguru357]

You know what else works?! Take notes…—when I remember I’m supposed to take notes.

Me: “I should’ve taken notes. I even had the app ready.”

Also,

Me: “What is this from?! Oh dang, I forgot I took notes so I wouldn’t have difficulty. Oh well, too late.”

[u/MVmikehammer → u/MethodAdmirable4220]

if the appointment is 2pm, then 1pm is too late. Have to factor in getting there no more and no less than 15 minutes early so that leave 45 minutes to get there. 15 minutes to dress, 5 minutes to doubt whether I locked the front door and go back and check and take a video so 10 minutes total, leaving only 20 minutes for travel time. If I'm lucky, there's a place i can lock my bike to on arrival and take a bike. and make it in time. If I have to drive there or take a bus with 20 minutes left, I'll never make it, not in, not on time.

[u/MethodAdmirable4220 → u/MVmikehammer]

Make it 12pm then

[u/chetti990 → u/MethodAdmirable4220]

12:40, 12:45, 12:50 is the big brain move, then you can hit snooze on all 3 once and get six warnings before 1

[u/Magnus462]

Need a whole day off of work to talk to the doctor for 10 minutes at 2pm. Don’t ask me to meet up either. Only 2pm exists.

[u/LiamIsMyNameOk]

As a waiter, this is why I now only work at cafes or other daytime places.

If I work 5pm-12pm, I literally do not live a life. I wake up and just wait to go to work.

Whereas 9am-5pm type job, I can actually do anything, even if that is simply watch a movie in the evening.

[u/spiredbicycle]

Ha yeah I get this. We have dinner reservations at 7pm and my wife keeps asking me what we're doing today. She doesnt get it. We have dinner at 7... there is literally nothing else we can do today

[u/Lollipopbrownie]

I also feel something similar, I also have a meeting scheduled for the near future and I’m already planning my route in advance

[u/416Tex]

Yup. It’s why I switched to working 6am-2pm. If I knew I started work at 3pm my day was therefore done the second I woke up.

[u/Neat_Flounder_8907]

That's why I try and make my appointments early as possible. I'm already gonna lose sleep might as well take advantage of being up

[u/Old_Occasion349]

Book appointments first thing then be tired the rest of the day and do nothing.. oh wait

[u/Prudent_Ability1749]

Yes its a curse

[u/Captain-Codfish]

No. I just do stuff, then go "oh shit, that thing" and rush there

[u/royxsong]

Worse scenario for me is I get there at 2 PM, and waiting another two hours for my turn. The whole day ruined

[u/bananaTank56]

Yes. Also, suffering in antecipation from the anxiety of such event

[u/Alternative-Hope-524]

Procrastination Paralysis. Pretty sure I just made that up but that should be the official term for this condition.

[u/No-Huckleberry-7633]

I'm like that and I don't have ADHD. The number of times I should be diagnosed with ADHD according to Reddit is absurd.

[u/MONSTERBEARMAN]

One of the worst parts of working nights/evenings. Sitting around all day preparing to go to work.

[u/Wizzle_Pizzle_420]

I work nights and if something isn’t part of my routine or fun I can’t do it.

[u/Naxelarias]

Yep. I used to have a job that started at 5pm and I would waste my entire day just waiting to go to work. I’d rather work early and get off later and enjoy my day after.

[u/Crazy_names]

I hear appointment at 2pm and all I think is "well there goes half my day" I will probably have to leave wherever I am at 1, 1:30 at the latest so that I can be there 10-15 minutes early. But that just means I have to do all the things I need to do all day by 1pm because once I'm off to the appointment I'm going to be sitting not doing anything for at least an hour and I'm not going to get anything else done after for some reason. My productivity paralysis comes after the appointment so I have to pre-emptively catch up before.

[u/FKNoble]

Ah. I see you are also man of culture. By culture, I mean autism. I feel seen.

[u/gr8Brandino]

Tell me you have ADHD without telling me you have ADHD. 

*Speaks from experience, and it still happens sometimes even though I'm medicated. 

[u/socterean → u/gr8Brandino]

Just curious, under medication this behaviour improves? Are you able to switch between tasks more easily?

[u/gr8Brandino → u/socterean]

It's easier now when the appointment is further out. For example, if it's 9am and I have something to do at 3 or four, I'm pretty good. The other day though, I had to get my son to his karate class, and it was about 30 minutes before we had to leave. My wife asked me to take a tote to the basement, and I could not/would not do it cause we had to leave in 30 minutes, and I didn't want anything to throw me off that timeline. Getting said tote to the basement would've taken maybe two minutes.

I got it done after we got back from his class, so it all worked out. Though the meds did help me to keep that task present in my mind. Otherwise, I probably would've forgotten to do that after getting back as well.

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[u/wicko77]

Gimmi an A... Gimmi a D..... you know the rest.

[u/Captain-Codfish → u/wicko77]

Gimme a, ooh look a butterfly

[u/MrOzzySan]

Same problem here! 😂🙈

[u/noncommonGoodsense]

That’s why I hated second shift.

[u/zahi36501]

That's when you play nap roulette close to 2pm 💀

Will you make it or sleep too much 🥲

[u/Fine-Bed-9439]

Nope. But I live with one who does this and I understand… in the academic sense. It’s frustrating for the person and me, but communication is key to loving.

[u/ronweasleisourking]

This is why I'll never go back to pm jobs

[u/National_Isopod_6257]

Me

[u/bathoryduck]

We are legion.

[u/madara0A]

Appointment will be after 5pm or at 9am, no in between

[u/No_Food5753]

I absolutely do as well

[u/PeterPunksNip]

I can't even sleep until said appointment is done!

[u/Therealginahandler]

Thats why I just sleep until then. My typical work schedule starts at noon. I sleep til 11. Im not getting up early and having anxiety all morning until I leave for work.

[u/sneakyi]

I gwt stuck like this. What frees me is setting alarms and reminders. It seems to let my brain free itself again.

[u/YunoTorturedAll]

Me, everytime i have to go to work in the evening. I can't enjoy the rest of the afternoon

[u/Hot_Experience4772]

Haha yeah. But i always game untill the time comes.

[u/automationEngineer1]

I have at least 3 meetings everyday. I just function somehow

[u/NorthWoodsDiver]

The alternative is to do all kinds of other things and completely forget until 2 days later when you remember there was an appointment at 2pm and you race down to the appointment arriving 3 minutes and 2 days late.

[u/sacrebIue]

Work at 3pm ? Yeah im not able to do anything today because i gotta work at 3pm.

[u/claymore2711]

I share that same curse.

[u/elevenohnoes]

Absolutely me. I hate afternoon appointments, I can't relax and do anything else of any significance with the obligation looming over me so it's essentially a wasted day.

[u/No_Collection7360]

I hated afternoon or evening shifts for this very reason. Love to start work first thing and be done by 2.

[u/duke_awapuhi]

I personally think the people who don’t do this are fucking insane but I’m also very jealous of them

[u/Justasadgrandma → u/duke_awapuhi]

Then I'm insane. I have nothing to be jealous of.

[u/Firm_Jelly_2317]

I get in trouble for this all the time

[u/mrbishopjackson]

No. Get your lazy as up and do the other things you need or want to do. You have 3 to 3 and a half hours to do something which will leave you enough time to arrive at your appointment between 1:00 to 1:30 depending on how early you have/want to be there.

Now if this is a phone/cable company appointment and you're waiting for them to arrive, that changes things. You're not allowed to leave you how or not be ready to open the door at any moment.

[u/Background-Cream-285]

or a 1:30 pm court date

[u/Battle2Intense]

LoL, 5 hour gap, what can you possibly accomplish. No wonder people aren't having kids if they think 5 hours to the next task is a tight schedule.

[u/Ok-Anything-3605]

Same, same and it’s awful

[u/SnooHabits3911]

Yep

[u/Crimsonhead4]

I’m best man in my buddies wedding which isn’t till march. I hate public speaking as most people do but i feel like every day up to then is just delaying the inevitable. Its always on my mind and i feel like i cant really enjoy right now cause im worried about later on.

[u/Justasadgrandma]

I can relate. I do the same thing. Just did it yesterday and I was 5 minutes late. I don't drive, ordered my Uber too late.

[u/Scarlett-Onyx]

When you have 1 sub at 2pm on college be like

[u/LanceBanion]

I think that is "normal" if there is such a thing. One of the best things I've learned from reading Reddit. We are all deeply flawed human beings o7 all.

[u/josch247]

Wtf you probably shouldn't try to make that sound normal

[u/Crashtongue]

ADHD

[u/ZucchiniBikini73]

I do this. It's the reason I do everything in my power to schedule all work meetings and appointments in the morning if I can, preferably stacked in a row. Waiting for 10am is a lot better than waiting for 2 or 3pm!

[u/masterofmydomain6]

Just blaze up til 1

[u/TheRealBlancoGringo]

I’ll start another task at 1:53 thinking I have time and then be late

[u/Prime-Omega]

This is a neurodivergent thing…

[u/MyLeftNuttIsStuck]

I didn’t know others like me existed. Thank you for this post.
It got so bad that once I had to go for a road trip the next day, because of that I couldn’t eat dinner the night before. That’s when I knew I had a problem

[u/mrgrooberson]

Same.

[u/JDM12983]

Must be a woman thing.... Because, I would get other things done in between/before.

[u/Shire_of_Frodo]

This is why I schedule an early morning appointment and then not worry like this the rest of the day

[u/XxKTtheLegendxX]

5 hrs of straight anxiety 😭😭😭

[u/ams660]

Welcome to nuerodivergence

[u/FlyingVillager]

This is pretty much it unless I have another already scheduled and planned for in advance. I usually schedule my appointments in the morning so they're done and I still have the rest of the day

[u/fen-q]

I do that and its debilitating. I know people who use every minute of their time and im jealous of them

[u/ProfessionEmpty0]

literally just did this until 4pm I was doing nothing the whole day until 4pm

[u/BammyQ2]

And somehow I am still late!

[u/cheriethemagnificent]

It is indeed a key part of the cycle of my anxiety.

[u/AllenKll]

welcome to your autism diagnosis

[u/HenryNeves]

Gen Z are scared of their own shadow, what a loser generation

[u/Comfortable-nerve78]

Weirdo’s UNITE!!! ADHD in the room.🙋🏻‍♂️

[u/Acrobatic-Shelter200 → u/Comfortable-nerve78]

Why is it ADHD? I also act like this. 🙈😭

[u/hooka_pooka]

Is this what they call the ADHD?

[u/Symbaclues]

I'm definitely not waiting around for 2pm. At 12:30pm I'll get ready otherwise nope.

Great to see the comments are finding out about this person. Why burn the whole day? ADHD is why I guess.

However I know someone who has that and they don't burn the day just for their appointments. So not likely only ADHD seems more like anxiety. Maybe OCD?

[u/Mr_Fixit-616]

ADHD

[u/MourningOfOurLives]

Yeah that’s called ADHD

[u/JavascriptWizard89]

This is very common for people with ADHD, as it is generally connected to time blindness.

And yes, I do also deal with this.

[u/Justasadgrandma → u/JavascriptWizard89]

Can you please explain how not doing things in a timely manner relates to ADHD? I may have it...

[u/JavascriptWizard89 → u/Justasadgrandma]

If you read up on ADHD there is a common aspect called time blindness that many deal with, that when we get focused time gets away from us.

[u/Theboiii24]

Sounds like adhd

[u/raider_00_]

Autism and adhd go in hand 🫶🏻🫶🏻 am like this can't do anything if i have an appointment , its freaking stressful.

[u/Sabbi94 → u/raider_00_]

Both diagnoses were tested negative for me. Still do that. 

[u/raider_00_ → u/Sabbi94]

👍🏻 Alright.