ADHD and Time Management By Kelly Jean Sullivan

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Adults with ADHD think about time differently. Our inability to anticipate future rewards and consequences, our remarkable ability to procrastinate, our inability to ignore the static around us — these traits all contribute to our trouble with deadlines, punctuality, and planning

Research suggests that those with ADHD are deficient in temporal processing abilities, which affect executive functioning. This interferes with our ability to perceive time accurately when tasks require our attention or present an opportunity for impulsive responses

Does time move slower for people with ADHD?

reception of time, overestimate time intervals, and sense time passing more slowly than do their non-ADHD counterparts, according to a new study
How can I be on time with ADHD?
Plan to Arrive Early

To be there on time, the first trick is to actually plan to be there early! Set a mental arrival time 10 minutes before the scheduled time to allow for unforeseen traffic problems. This idea is anathema to most people with ADHD who are horrified by the idea of unstructured waiting time