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Turning up on time to things

Alexa

When I've agreed to be somewhere, I feel I have to be there on time and can't cry off or be late except for emergencies.

My absolute nightmare is long-distance appointments. I have to catch a ferry next week and my ADHD wants to get there at the very last minute because there will be so much hanging around after registering arrival, but my autism wants me to leave plenty of time for the journey in case something goes wrong, so I'm anxious on the journey for fear something will.

How do you cope?

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  • Forever early for absolutely everything. And incredibly irritated when others are late, why is my time of less value than yours?

    I can be sitting in meeting rooms at work for 10 minutes or so until someone else arrives.

    It’s a combination of priding myself on never being late for anything, and the anxiety of missing something. 

    If catching a train I usually get the one before I really needed, and even then get to the train station early. I always factor in far too much time for something to go wrong on the journey. 

    It drives my wife mad, but she also knows I’ll be a bag on anxiety of we don’t. 

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  • Forever early for absolutely everything. And incredibly irritated when others are late, why is my time of less value than yours?

    I can be sitting in meeting rooms at work for 10 minutes or so until someone else arrives.

    It’s a combination of priding myself on never being late for anything, and the anxiety of missing something. 

    If catching a train I usually get the one before I really needed, and even then get to the train station early. I always factor in far too much time for something to go wrong on the journey. 

    It drives my wife mad, but she also knows I’ll be a bag on anxiety of we don’t. 

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