So this is a weird ADHD trick that I didn't realize was a trick until I was explaining it to my friend because I've been doing it my whole life:
Learn to read an analog clock.
It came to my attention that they're not really teaching kids how to do this anymore with the popularity of digital clocks.
The problem with this is that time blindness is a Very Real Thing™️ when it comes to ADHD. But you know what our brains love? Chunking information.
With digital clocks, time just... Isn't real to me. "Oh okay..it says 8-4-5 cool. Oh now it says 1-0-3-0. Cool. No idea how much time has passed." (Like, logically I know it's like and hour 45 or so, but my brain just... Doesn't get it.)
An analog clock provides a visual display of how much time has passed. And it shows it in chunks. So I look up and see 8:45, then I look up and it's 9, I can physically see that I've spent 1/4 of an hour doing something because the hands have moved.
This has been a life saver to me when it comes to gauging how much time I have to do something like leave the house or clean something up. Almost a visual progress bar of sorts. But yeah. I'm wayyyyy less late when I have analog clocks in the house instead of digital ones.
But yeah let me know if you youngins need a clock reading lesson, I'm cool with being the squirrel-brained mom on here.
