In a recent Akashic Record Insights session, a participant asked about time management for someone with Autism or ADHD. Here's the response:
Cheryl Marlene:
Yes, there are several things they could say about that. It differs from person to person, of course, but part of what they offer is this: autism is often an indicator of an expansion in how awareness connects to the physical plane of Earth. That shift is moving away from a strict, mechanical sense of time. It’s also moving away from a rigid connection to linear time—and that’s intentional.
They suggest that this is not a flaw, but a signal. It’s actually more reflective of what we’re moving toward as a species than something that’s wrong. Given that most human beings on Earth are still primarily connected to the mechanics of time, their advice—oddly enough—is to give yourself permission to have periods in your day or week where you don’t do clocks.
Student:
And that makes sense. Yeah, that makes total sense. I’m also thinking about this question as part of my project. I did understand when you were talking earlier—that it has a lot to do with the person’s awareness as a point of… I don’t remember exactly how you said it, but I wrote it down.
You’ve said before that for someone like me—or anyone, really—it’s a good idea to allow yourself to just be who you are. Whatever happens, happens. Allow yourself to have these moments—or maybe not moments—but the possibility to just do what you do, when you do it, for however long you do it.
Cheryl Marlene:
They’re laughing because they’re saying, “One of the things we’d suggest? Turn on a timer for three or four hours… and then walk away.” It’s funny, but it gets at something deeper.
What they’re really saying is that this is about learning how to manage the continuum of experience that you have. One way to look at it—and you don’t have to be autistic to experience this, though it’s common among autistic people—is that there’s a stretched sense of time. So the clock might go by for an hour, but your experience feels like only five minutes have passed.
Student:
Right.
Cheryl Marlene:
Exactly. And in a certain sense, if you think about what I call the continuum of energy between potential and form—what that stretched sense of time reflects is movement toward the potential end of that continuum.
The far end of “form” would be the rigid, tick-tick-tick experience of time. When you move away from that rigidity and toward the fluid end, time stretches. It’s not tick-tick-tick—it’s more like… tick… tick.
So your awareness of time’s passage becomes fluid. It expands.
Student:
That’s the unknown, right?
Cheryl Marlene:
Yes. It’s the unknown. And it’s also uncertainty. Because on the rigid, mechanical end of the continuum, the idea is: we know. We know what time it is, we know what comes next, and there’s comfort in that structure.
But as you move toward the potential end, what’s down there is not about knowing—it’s about learning. It’s about discovery.
Student:
Right.
Cheryl Marlene:
So you’re not in a fixed place. You’re at the threshold of the unknown. You’re in the process of becoming. And you’re not afraid of it.
Student:
Sometimes it’s freedom, actually.
Cheryl Marlene:
Yes.
Student:
Yes.
Cheryl Marlene:
Exactly.
Student:
Okay. Thank you.
Cheryl Marlene:
You’re welcome.
Student:
Yeah.
Cheryl Marlene:
For me, this is part of why I have to have at least one week a month where I make no promises about time. I need that. Because so much of my life is bound to tick-tick-tick—and that’s not who I am naturally.
Cheryl Marlene:
You know, that’s why in The Matrix, I’ve always loved that moment with the Oracle in the kitchen. She’s baking cookies. People just show up. That’s my dream: to spend my day baking chocolate chip cookies for whoever arrives at my door.
