{"id":24965,"date":"2026-01-01T18:42:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=24965"},"modified":"2026-01-01T18:42:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:42:39","slug":"is-lateness-a-disorder-or-just-plain-rude-adhd-time-blindness-is-sparking-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=24965","title":{"rendered":"Is lateness a disorder or just plain rude? ADHD \u2018time blindness\u2019 is sparking debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/12\/31\/826d78f7-7dd4-4989-8e89-dda3503a53f5_13f84ea7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Even as a kid, Alice Lovatt was always getting in trouble for being late.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">She was often embarrassed after letting her friends down because of her tardiness, and she was routinely stressed about arriving at school on time.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI just don\u2019t seem to have that clock that ticks by in my head,\u201d says Lovatt, a musician and group-home worker in Liverpool, England.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">It was not until she was diagnosed with <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">ADHD<\/span>, or attention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder, at 22 that she learned she was experiencing a symptom sometimes called \u201ctime blindness\u201d.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Russell Barkley, a retired clinical neuropsychologist at the University of Massachusetts in the United States, is often credited with linking time impairment with people with ADHD or <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">autism<\/span>. In 1997, he called it \u201ctemporal myopia\u201d.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But recently, time blindness has sparked a social media debate: where is the line between a genuine condition and someone who is disorganised or just plain rude?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3338313\/lateness-disorder-or-just-plain-rude-adhd-time-blindness-sparking-debate?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as a kid, Alice Lovatt was always getting in trouble for being late. She was often embarrassed after letting her friends down because of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4716,14875,1600,14874,14873,10466,5665,9554,654],"class_list":["post-24965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-adhd","tag-blindness","tag-debate","tag-disorder","tag-lateness","tag-plain","tag-rude","tag-sparking","tag-time","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}