Passage of time
" He knew the time he was supposed to meet the others for dinner, but he didn't know how to perceive or calculate the amount of time it would consume to stop in at each store on his route. When he arrived 40 minutes past the meeting time, he was confused, hurt, and angry to see that he had been left behind. When the interaction of sequencing and time is analyzed this way, it becomes clear that ememory is affect by a deficit in sequencing ability, and vice versa.
My clients have very poor memoeries for when something happened and poor judgment for the feeling of how much time has passed since a specific event occurred. The same is true for events coming up in the future. ... They don't feel the passage of time the way we normall do.
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In this secnario, the client will be on medication that was prescribed by a different octor, perhaps some time ago. The current doctor will want to record in her records how long the client has been on medication. So she asks the client, who has no idea how long, but wants to appear normal. The client will answer vaguely, "Oh, I've been on that med a long time." The doctor might ask, do you mean more than a year? The client will answer, "Oh yes, more than a year, maybe five years." At this point, if the doctor writes own one year or five years or between one and five years, her information will be completely unrealiable. The client doesn't mean to lie, but he cares a great deal about passing as normal, so he won't simply say he doesn't know how long he's been on the medication. Interestingly, if the doctor asks in a different way, if she says, "Do you know th edate you started this medication?" the client will generally answer, "No, but my mom does." "
- "Adults on the Autism Spectrum: Leave the Nest, Achieving Supported Independence" by Nancy Perry
My clients have very poor memoeries for when something happened and poor judgment for the feeling of how much time has passed since a specific event occurred. The same is true for events coming up in the future. ... They don't feel the passage of time the way we normall do.
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In this secnario, the client will be on medication that was prescribed by a different octor, perhaps some time ago. The current doctor will want to record in her records how long the client has been on medication. So she asks the client, who has no idea how long, but wants to appear normal. The client will answer vaguely, "Oh, I've been on that med a long time." The doctor might ask, do you mean more than a year? The client will answer, "Oh yes, more than a year, maybe five years." At this point, if the doctor writes own one year or five years or between one and five years, her information will be completely unrealiable. The client doesn't mean to lie, but he cares a great deal about passing as normal, so he won't simply say he doesn't know how long he's been on the medication. Interestingly, if the doctor asks in a different way, if she says, "Do you know th edate you started this medication?" the client will generally answer, "No, but my mom does." "
- "Adults on the Autism Spectrum: Leave the Nest, Achieving Supported Independence" by Nancy Perry
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