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Post by happy on Feb 23, 2021 4:18:25 GMT
hi so i just want to share my situation. i think i have MD but i also think i'm just i have it. the earliest daydream that i think i have can be called " talking to invisible friend", my family just brush it off since i was young. they just laugh at me being adorable and such. i was 6 y/o. i will talk about stories of witch craft, dancing brooms, talking plates all inspired from disney films i watched. i used to own a diary with drawings of stuffs from my "daydream". of it now, i don't really remember the story i weaved that time. i don't remember the faces and characters of my own daydream, but i remember my mom asking me who i am talking to. i just told her i'm playing alone, because i am aware that the story i'm being part of is not real. i also thought that was normal, for a child at least. then when i was in my elementary up til highschool (grades 3 to grade 12), according to my friends, i will usually stare vacantly at one spot and they'll see my expressions change and at some times i was mouthing words they don't hear. they all thought i was insane, but i know i was just "in a story" of my own creation, while awake. i told them that i was just memorizing some school stuffs (they believed it, thank goodness) it's getting serious now actually. it was harmless then, but now it became a distraction, to my daily life - and not the good kind. i used to know when a daydream starts, but now, just a single thought it may trigger an episode and i'll have trouble getting out of it. it may look like i'm just absent minded but i will usually be in a daydream episode. my daydreams nowadays were usually triggered by random thoughts from a scenario/picture/movie i've seen. like if see a mansion, i'll ask myself, what if i'm a millionnaire. and suddenly i was, with my own background, my own characters like a scene from a movie. sometimes i can control the direction of the daydream was, but most of the times, not. i also spent a lot of time in a daydream. the longest i've been is about 3 hours. imagine staring at the ceiling for 3 hours, mouthing words and gesturing every now and then. so yeah, maybe i'm just crazy ?
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Post by Sam on Feb 28, 2021 16:47:55 GMT
Welcome to the forum!
That kind of daydreaming is fairly common among young children. Most children daydream immersively when they are young, but for maladaptive daydreamers, we tend to never make that shift from preferring fantasy to preferring reality. It does sound like your daydreaming could be maladaptive right now, though you're really the only person who can know for sure. In general, daydreaming becomes maladaptive when it interferes with your ability to function in real life--often preventing you from completing tasks in work or school and maintaining healthy interpersonal relationships.
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