Angela MondorClickUp Verified Consultant, ClickUp · Operations consultant & ClickUp Verified Consultant for neurodivergent entrepreneurs

How I Tricked My ADHD Time Blindness 🕒 #Shorts

28 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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Someone with ADHD time blindness set their car clock ten minutes ahead to trick themselves into arriving on time at a high school job. The boss kept calling out the lateness anyway. They weren't diagnosed with ADHD until later, but looking back, the clock trick was a coping mechanism they invented on their own.

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High school, I had one of my first jobs. I had the time clock in my car set 10 minutes ahead of time so that I could be on time. And just even little things like that where I had found workarounds to overcompensate my ADHD because I was aware that I had this time blindness and I was aware that I was chronically late. And my boss, I remember he would I would walk in, he would always point to his watch like, oh, you're 10 minutes behind. And so I was even like, I had fast-forwarded the clock in my car 10 minutes ahead of time so my mind, I could like trick myself.
Yeah. And it's interesting because like, of course now we know that that is coping mechanisms, right? But being late diagnosed