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Post by stupidbitch123 on Jan 24, 2019 9:46:35 GMT
Hi my name is Chloe, I'm 18 and mtf transgender. It's really nice to know I'm not the only person on the planet who has this condition. I grew up and it started just playing with my stuffed animals and shaking my hands compulsively. I'd make really long winded narratives based off the shows I was watching, one day I lost the stuffed dog that I used to shake around to act out the characters and it turned into just using my hands. Being 18 now it's gotten pretty bad, it distracts me from my schooling, work, hobbies and effects my social relationships at times. I've gotten it narrowed down to just doing it while I'm secluded by myself, like when I go to the bathroom, or when everyone is asleep. I've always believed up to this point that it would just go away but have come to accept that it won't. I hope to learn some better coping mechanisms through this forum.
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Post by katie on Jan 24, 2019 13:48:43 GMT
Welcome to daydream in blue.
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Post by Sam on Jan 24, 2019 19:15:24 GMT
Welcome to the forum Chloe! It hasn't been super active lately, but there are still a bunch of old threads that have some good information in them. You're right about it not going away. I'm not sure what exactly it is that is different in the brains of maladaptive daydreamers that makes it so we never grow out of the intense daydreaming that most children do, but its not uncommon for us to continue daydreaming maladaptively into our teens and adulthood. I assume that the process is similar to phobias (a lot of children have phobias, but only some have that phobia continue and grow later in life). Anyways, I'm off on a tangent, but like I said before, there's some good information in various threads, so if you look around the forum, I'm sure you'll find something that clicks with you.
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Post by alvi on Jan 24, 2019 20:17:38 GMT
Welcome to the forum Chloe.
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Post by Dimmer on Jan 27, 2019 18:54:04 GMT
Welcome to the forum, Chloe! I always thought I'd "grow out" of it too... for years.. and years... and years... lol... never happened.
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