ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Meet Emily.
She is a small mint green goblin with a broken hourglass, and she has been living in your brain probably since childhood - stretching time, shrinking it, making transitions arrive without warning, and throwing emotional glitter over the whole experience.
If you have ever been told that you are late because you do not care, or that you would be on time if you just tried harder, this episode is going to change the way you understand yourself.
Time blindness is not a character flaw. It is not laziness. It is not disrespect. It is a brain that experiences time in a fundamentally different way and today we are giving that experience a name, a face, and a trading card.
In this episode:
- Meet Emily, the Time Blindness Goblin: the first character in the Inside the Pickle Jar neighborhood
- What time blindness actually is and what is happening neurologically
- Why the now/not-now framework explains so much about how your brain experiences time
- What it looks like in real daily life and why the apology you give when you are late is genuine even when nobody believes it
- The shame that compounds the original problem and why it does not help
- What actually helps...strategies that work with your brain rather than against it
FREE RESOURCE
If you are struggling to explain your experience to the people in your life, I made something for you.
Four Things I Need the People in My Life to Know About My Brain A free guide that does the explaining for you.
https://www.insidethepicklejar.com
EMILY'S TRADING CARD
Emily is the first character in the Inside the Pickle Jar trading card series. She is custom designed, hand crafted, and now available in the shop.
Start collecting the originals. https://shop.insidethepicklejar.com
MEET THE REST OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Emily is just the beginning. The Inside the Pickle Jar neighborhood has six characters, each one representing a real part of the neurodivergent experience:
- Emily - The Time Blindness Goblin
- Lily - The Executive Function Gremlin
- Rosie - The Stress Monster
- Millie - The Hyperfocus Dragon
- Eleanor - The Focus Sprite
- Little T - The Inner Child Archivist (seen in the five-part series on masking)
Each character has their own episode coming up. Subscribe so you do not miss them.
CONNECT WITH TONYA
🥒 Grab something from the shop: https://shop.insidethepicklejar.com
📬 Get "4 Things I Need the People in My Life to Know About My Brain" (free): https://www.insidethepicklejar.com
💌 Join the Pen Pal Club: https://www.insidethepicklejar.com/the-jar/
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IF THIS EPISODE RESONATED
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Be gentle with yourself, pickle friend. I'll see you next time inside the jar.
