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She could read clocks... but it didn't make sense to her. 24 hour clocks helped some. Is 10am before or after 2pm? She didn't know. Further, she didn't understand morning and evening, it's either bright out or dark out. It goes even so far as, she didn't really understand the causality of the sun coming up or going down and the east or west. So "the sun is just coming up it's breakfast time" was several levels of causality past her. A bridge game at 11am requires me to wake up at 9,

To make people happy she'd just say "ok" when someone said a time.

And so many people just didn't understand these limitations, including the scheduling folks at the neurology department who would setup 3-5 meetings well in advanced and then move them constantly.



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