Mail Online | 3 hours 13 min ago
A man who has been late for everything in his life has had his chronic tardiness diagnosed as a medical condition.
Jim Dunbar has been late for work, holidays, meals with friends, left women waiting on first dates and even had to sneak into funerals long after they’ve begun.
The 57-year-old said that his poor timekeeping is down to a medical condition that was diagnosed as chronic lateness.
It is thought that the condition is caused by the same part of the brain affected by those who suffer from Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and means Dunbar cannot properly gauge how long things take to complete.
Dunbar said, “The reason I want it out in the open is that there has got to be other folk out there with it and they don’t realise that it’s not their fault. “I blamed it on myself and thought why can’t I be on time? I lost a lot of jobs. I can understand people’s reaction and why they don’t believe me. It’s depressing sometimes. I can’t overstate how much it helped to say it was a condition.”
Dunbar has tackled this problem his entire life and always blamed himself.
A man who has been late for everything in his life has had his chronic tardiness diagnosed as a medical condition.
Jim Dunbar has been late for work, holidays, meals with friends, left women waiting on first dates and even had to sneak into funerals long after they’ve begun.
The 57-year-old said that his poor timekeeping is down to a medical condition that was diagnosed as chronic lateness.
It is thought that the condition is caused by the same part of the brain affected by those who suffer from Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and means Dunbar cannot properly gauge how long things take to complete.
Dunbar said, “The reason I want it out in the open is that there has got to be other folk out there with it and they don’t realise that it’s not their fault. “I blamed it on myself and thought why can’t I be on time? I lost a lot of jobs. I can understand people’s reaction and why they don’t believe me. It’s depressing sometimes. I can’t overstate how much it helped to say it was a condition.”
Dunbar has tackled this problem his entire life and always blamed himself.
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