Cheshire (Alicja, Artemida and Mara)<p>So here's an exercise hack that maybe is obvious but wasn't for me so sharing in case someone could use it:</p><p>I walk a lot. I have a daily average step goal every month and I just do not like sitting still. It also helps me relax and/or think.</p><p>So I try to squeeze in some walking when I have a little time between things.</p><p>I also ride public transport everywhere. But like many ADHDers, I struggle to estimate time necessary to get to a place and like many autistics, I hate being late. So I end up with a lot of extra time, but still limited by when the thing I'm going to starts.</p><p>So, I started using Google Maps to check the time needed to get to my destination, but specifically the WALKING time.</p><p>That's because I then get live estimates of how much spare time I have for walking.</p><p>Let me give a typical example.</p><p>I have therapy in like an hour and nothing urgent to do. I take my usual tram to the therapy but getting there takes less than an hour. So I check the route but crucially NOT for public transit. I tell the app I'mma be walking, but I get on the tram as normal. It shows the arrival time as two hours from now or whatever. I start the "walking".</p><p>The ETA rapidly drops because I'm "walking" at the speed of a tram. 110 minutes, 90, 70, 50... at some point it's, say, a thirty minute walk to a place I need to be at in forty minutes. So I get off the tram and walk the rest of the way.</p><p>It works in reverse. I have a meeting in thirty minutes and the time is short? I ride like two stops via a random tram going roughly the right way. I have ten extra minutes, don't have to rush.</p><p>It works when I want to be somewhere at a certain time but it's flexible.</p><p>Nowadays I rarely even check the actual travel time, just launch the walking route and adjust on the fly.</p><p>And I don't think it's just beneficial to a neurospicy brain. People have been complaining that life gets faster and faster and yet we feel like we have a lot less time since the invention of railways, pretty much. In the twentieth and the twenty-first century a big part of this has been, I think, that we rush to places and then have a little time that we can only waste waiting, because what the heck are you gonna do with those gen minutes at the doctor's waiting room or whatever.</p><p>So I live slower but also spend more time existing within that slowness. Without having to sacrifice living in a world measured by clocks.</p><p><a href="https://meow.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/neurospicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurospicy</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/timemanagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>timemanagement</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/exercise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exercise</span></a></p><p>EDIT: oh, and it absolutely works for situations where I hang around for a few hours before a thing starts, but getting there is like ten minutes. I launch the trip with four hours to spare or whatever, and I can go for a walk, or go window shopping, or sit on a bench and relax, or whatever. I'm not stressed about possible time blindness because I can check my time margin at all times regardless of where I go and what I do in the meantime.</p>