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To expand on this, since I was a big chunk of the conversation that spawned the tweet and I think it& #39;s potentially useful/interesting: https://twitter.com/kiki_thehuman/status/1233093612499537922">https://twitter.com/kiki_theh...
One of the mods on a Discord I& #39;m part of asked (referring to an NT coworker blazing through a task that took them considerably longer)"I feel like, even if my brain worked like theirs, there surely can& #39;t be enough time in the day, right?" Well...
I think it might help to think of NT work speeds as being a halfway between our hyperfocus state and the & #39;oh god, not more of this endless slog& #39; reaction that some people call the Wall of Awful.
I don& #39;t think most of us are aware of how distorted our perspective gets.
I don& #39;t think most of us are aware of how distorted our perspective gets.
Not on a minute to minute basis, certainly. I know I& #39;m not most of the time.
We& #39;ve got time blindness, so the ability to tell how long something is taking is suspect at best just from the start, then you have the & #39;horror movie hallway& #39; lensing effect that makes any unpleasant/boring task feel/look like it& #39;s going to take the rest of your life (c)
and then some, the constant struggle to get ourselves to stay aimed in the right direction, and as best I can tell we suffer from the same draining/slowing effect that depression causes while we& #39;re actually working on the task.
When you& #39;re severely depressed, everything takes more physical effort, you move slower, you think slower, even your voice can tend to be quieter because the perceived effort of speaking changes and your instinctive feel for how loud you are gets thrown off it& #39;s calibration.
I don& #39;t think there& #39;s been any research on this, if there is I& #39;ve never heard of/seen it, but I think the situations where we have to force ourselves to do something and it feels like we& #39;re halfway up Mount Fucking Doom with the Ring, fighting for every step...
We know we& #39;re miserable, obviously, we& #39;re trying to do something soulkillingly dull and time consuming but especially in the moment from the inside, we aren& #39;t able to see how much of that *feeling* of something taking hours to do is resulting in it *literally* taking hours to do.
I& #39;d wager that most of us have written a 1-2 page essay or something similar in about a tenth of the time it& #39;d take an NT person, driven by a looming deadline that has suddenly moved from Not Now to Now.
