I think one of the worst parts of having a CDD for me is the time warping that I experience. I’m always aware and never experience a full switch, the closest I get is when I’m basically pushed out of control and have to watch stuff (but even then I’m still conscious).
Due to that, I rarely (if ever) experience blackout amnesia and complete losing of time. But due to the co-fronts and co-consciousness experiences, I do still get varying levels of amnesia, which in turn cause my sense of time to be off.
Like. I really don’t care about losing memories because I often don’t realise I’ve lost them until someone goes “yeah I said x to you yesterday” or something. But the time warping really throws me off.
I often end up in situations where I think something was last year, or last month, or last week. And it was more like three years ago, six months ago, or even three-four months ago. It really fucks with me because I then go into a breakdown over it.
But on the other side, I also experience time so freaking slowly. Like. It feels like it’s taking ages for something to happen or for a certain date to arrive or that I have a lot more time for something than I actually do.
It’s so frustrating because I then end up having the two mess with each other and it results in me going “oh nah, I’m fine I have plenty of time to do something” and then the deadlines looming on me what feels like the next day and I’m like “fuck fuck fuck”.
Yeah. I’m really bad at putting this into words but hopefully I’m not alone in this feeling of time being stretched and squashed simultaneously.