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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clocks and timers don't help with time blindness with my college aged kid because he perceives things will take far less time then they do.

If I tell him we need to leave at 2pm and to set an alarm to get ready, he will set it for 1:30 thinking it is enough time for him to shower/dress/get groomed, finish up laundry, have a snack, and text with his GF.

*spoiler - he takes 20m showers so even just getting ready isn't feasible.*

I can't tell you the number of times we have left without him.[/quote]

PP with 18yo now.  16yo did the same thing.  Because she also has ODD/possible BPD, arguing just made it worse.  Instead, we changed the paradigm by separating drive time from prep time, making a list of prep activities and timing out each prep activity.  She only wrote down prep time after averaging out a dozen times she did each activity (and since she had to notify me that she was going to time, it took over a month to do the whole list), but it made a huge difference once she knew how long it would really take.  She now sets a timer on her phone before she starts each part of prep, each one saved in her phone, and it makes everything so much easier for her.[/quote]

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