14 DAY TRIAL // 57-year-old Jim Dunbar from Scotland has recently been diagnosed with a fairly peculiar medical condition: chronic lateness.
Doctors say this diagnosis explains why Jim Dunbar is utterly unable to stick to a schedule, and why he has almost never made it to work, meetings with friends and family, and even funerals on time.
By the looks of it, the man has been suffering from chronic lateness since he was about 5 years old.
He says that, as far as he can remember, it seldom happened that he got to his school when he was supposed to. As he grew older, being late for meetings and appointments became unavoidable.
In fact, it appears that he was 20 minutes late to the diagnosis appointment at a hospital in Dundee, during which he was told that he was suffering from chronic lateness, Medical Daily tells us.
While some might rejoice at the thought of having a perfectly good excuse for being late all the time, i.e. a rare medical condition, Jim Dunbar maintains that chronic lateness sounds much better on paper than it is in real-life.
However, he admits that, now that he has been given a diagnosis, he has gained some peace of mind.
“I get down about it and it’s disturbing for other folk when you arrive late. It’s depressing sometimes,” the 57-year-old man explains. “I can’t overstate how much it helped to say it was a condition,” he further says.
The same source tells us that chronic lateness boils down to the fact that people cannot estimate how much or how little time it would take them to complete certain tasks. Hence the fact that they can't stick to a very precise schedule.
By the looks of it, chronic lateness is caused by abnormal activity in an area of the brain that has previously been linked to attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, otherwise known as ADHD.