Do you take an excessive amount of time in the shower?

Disclaimer: I’m not diagnosed, but I keep stumbling upon more and more ADHD traits that align with me. And I wonder if this might be another one.

I’ve always had a problem with taking short showers. Every time I go to shower, I tell myself “10 minutes, in and out”. From what I’ve seen online, it seems like 10-15 minutes is the average for most people. And every time, it ends up being 20-30 minutes or more, even when I’m actively trying to hurry. I always blamed it on moving too slowly or being excessively thorough, like washing multiple times.

But, then I thought…what if it’s not what I’m doing, but what I’m not doing? Those moments where I’m either distracted and thinking about a million things at once or just spacing out and enjoying the warmth. I feel like I tend to kind of forget about those moments and it’s like my brain just doesn’t want to count them towards that 10-minute limit.

Time blindness has been a serious problem for me since I was old enough to form memories. A lot of my earliest memories are of being late to things and of being reprimanded for taking too long doing things like washing my hands, because I would always get distracted in the middle of the task.

I know time blindness and distracted thoughts are common in ADHD, so I’m curious to know how many of you might also have Long Shower Syndrome. lol