Much is made of how a lot of autistic and ADHD people end up doing the bulk of their work – whatever it may be – just before deadline hits, and I wonder if this is the reason. Often it’s chalked up to procrastination and – well, the number of hours I played on Minecraft tells me that this is certainly a factor. But I think that my inability to clearly understand more distant targets and time scales is involved here too. The procrastination explanation would lead one to expect a period of mad panic and terror in those last weeks; instead, the opposite was true.
