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Impatience

Keith

Keith

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I've found I have a history of impatience. Even when I'm watching something I enjoy I still check to see how much time is left. I've been told I was also diagnosed with ADD. I think this also might be why I have so many games but very few finished ones.
 
Perhaps it could be explained by a need for novelty. Checking times could be explained by the "fascination with time" that is supposedly an autistic characteristic. I will sometimes repeatedly check how much time has passed, whether I'm doing something specific or just sitting around thinking, sometimes forcefully breaking my attention away from a pleasant activity. I'm fairly certain that I don't have any sort of attention deficit disorder, but I know that I have a poorish sense of time, and I find it interesting to compare the amount of time that seems to have passed to the amount of time that a clock indicates has passed.
 
You're not alone. Frequently I'll watch a film I love in two or more 40-minute sessions, because I can't sit still.

Oh, and if I lose something like a remote, and can't find it when I want it, stand aside - I have proper tantrums over it, and usually have to go and stand in a dark room with my eyes closed for a few minutes. o_o
 
I tend to be impatient with movies and such as well in that I often have to split it up in 2 or more sessions. However, some movies don't trigger this behavior. So therefore I blame the movies, lol.

The same goes for games; I can't really play games for long sessions. At times I play 30 minutes until I switch to something else. Doesn't mean I don't finish games though. Even if it takes me up to 5 months spread out over 5 sessions of 30 minutes a week... I'll still finish most of them.

The worst thing I'm doing recently is, when I'm watching on Netflix, is to look at the progress bar and it shows me a screenshot of the position on that time. I'll scan for when the end credits start. Just so I know when the movie is done. It's often a full 5 to 10 minutes, so I can already see that I "just have to sit through another 80 instead of 90 minutes".
 
One of my habits is to determine where halfway is and stop there. I also can't sit through a sporting event without taking breaks. That's why I'm glad for endurance races. There's the Six Hours of Watkins Glen. If I get to record the entire race, I can watch an hour a day for six days.
 
Yes, it's this weird dichotomy where I want to watch the movie but I am impatient about the times as well so I too also end up watching the clock.
 
Keith said:
I've found I have a history of impatience. Even when I'm watching something I enjoy I still check to see how much time is left. I've been told I was also diagnosed with ADD. I think this also might be why I have so many games but very few finished ones.
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I am like that. If I don't like something in 5 minutes I will move on.
 
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