I’m usually too early so I just sit in my car wherever it is that I’m supposed to be, so I can just walk in a couple minutes before I need to be there

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Within the first few weeks of a new job I’ll usually show up 30-40 minutes before my shift just to beat the anxiety of being accidentally late. Then after that I’ll have the route time figured out and I can get there on the dot

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So my old band director would always tell me “to be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, and to be late is unacceptable” and I heard that and went…. Hell yeah… and now I show up to work at least 9-20 minutes early

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I know a lot of neurodivergent people struggle with transition periods from as simple as getting in or out of the shower or out of bed, or in this case out of the car… I usually plan to be early enough where I have 10-20 minutes depending on how I’m feeling to transition into what I’m doing. It’s a moment for myself where I know I won’t be late like if I took a moment for myself before leaving to get there. It’s like I need to psych myself up for starting a different part of my day

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I’m always wayyyy too early

21

Earlys on time, on time is late, today you are NEITHER

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Im always early to the point people get mad at me

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I get so anxious the night before I have appointments or things I need to wake up for that I wake myself up multiple times hours before my alarms go off because I’m scared I’ll sleep through them and miss things. I used to be so anxious about being late that I would rather not show up at all than be late but I’ve mostly gotten over that. The alarm thing is rough though because I know I’m just not going to sleep if I have an early appointment.

12

I usually try to get there right on time

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It’s always one of these 3 for me, too early, right on time, or terribly late 😂

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honestly i prefer to get to places early, helps me get used to my surroundings

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Yepppp... even if I don't have anything until 4 PM I can't do anything before bc I'm scared I'll risk being late for the thing at 4 PM

8

I do both…I can either be over an hour early or half an hour late. No in-between.

5

so ridiculously early that its almost embarrassing but if i dont i am so anxious

5

Getting to places on time makes me so anxious that I’m gonna be late, I need to be there like at least ten minutes before

5

yea i have a hard time figuring out a good time to leave and while im waiting i get bored and figure i might as well leave sooner and then arrive a half hour early

5

I have the opposite issue. I’m always running late

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I have this!! I’ve left for a class 40-50 minutes before it starts, and get there in 10 minutes early. So I’m sitting for 30-40 minutes waiting for it to start. This includes classes that don’t have attendance or Iclickers. Took an evolution class that started at 8:10 AM. Didn’t need to show up at all, and yet I still often arrived there at 7:35 AM 😭

2

My job starts at 9 am. It’s a 20 minute drive. I leave my house at 7:45 am. 🫩

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Yep I sometimes show up an hour early

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YUP

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yeah it’s usually one or the other

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Sometimes its like if im not super early then im like scrambling so maybe?

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If it’s something new I always usually leave early enough where I am there 15 mins early. But I usually always arrive earlier to the things I like as well

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I usually get there wayy early, sit in my car, and wait for someone to go in first

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One time I was so early to an important appointment that i waited months to even get into so I was obviously anxious about being late to it and having to wait for months again and so i decided to sit in my car and wait until 5 minutes before the actual time to go in. I tried to kill the time by playing games on my phone or scrolling but I was just so fidgety and anxious i couldn’t focus on one thing to do. I ended up taking a small nap to almost ease my nerves and had set an alarm to go off(1/2)

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im either too early or late

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im either like an hour early or im running late and there is literally no in between, like im never on time

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I do the same thing, literally yesterday I was an hour early to an event I went to that was literally a five minute drive from my apartment

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lol I used to have a roommate who also had ADHD that would be ridiculously early and then I would be consistently late

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Yes, I’m always way too early!!

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It’s either one or the other. There is no in between

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