The most annoying thing with ADHD impulsiveness is when you finally have motivation to do something and then it turns out you can't.
Like, I just went "I'M GONNA MAKE SOME FUCKING MUFFINS" and I was preheating the oven and then WHOOPS I'm out of vegetable oil.
I can run to the store or have it delivered, but both of those are likely to take so long that by the time I get my veggie oil, I'll have lost the motivation to bake.
Look one of the most overlooked symptoms of ADHD is time blindness, and with it there's only three times:
The past (poorly remembered)
Right the fuck now (the only time that is real. Finally, for the first time, you are awake)
The future (may never come. Do not trust. Next week might as well be "in a billion years after the sun goes cold")
Is this just an adhd thing? Like I’ve been tested and don’t have an adhd diagnosis but do this all the time (like at least once a month). Not trying to say this isn’t a very real thing you’ve experienced and maybe it’s exacerbated by having adhd in a way that im not picking up on, but I think this might just being human
I wouldn't have used the OP example as time blindness, but rather how the whole dopamine reward system is broken in people with ADHD. The activation energy has been spent now and needs to be used now because it's not going to exist again in 2 hours for that particular activity. A lot of ADHD symptoms are normal things that happen to people, but at a quantity and intensity that they impact day to day life. Others are actually just comorbidities with other neurodivergent diagnoses. A daily example for me is that I love playing games, but if I have to download a big patch or an update, it's distinctly possible that I will just go lay in bed because the reward was not instant.
Actual time blindness in people with ADHD is more like a broken internal clock. Or like color blindness but with time. I know time exists, I can look at a clock and see it move, etc, but my internal sense of time is more like what the OP lays out. For me it's a constant, ongoing every day issue.
