Hey, I think I have maladaptive daydreaming
May 19, 2019 9:06:38 GMT
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Post by mae1505 on May 19, 2019 9:06:38 GMT
Hey. I’m new on here, as you can probably tell, and I’m probably doing this wrong, but I don’t really know where else to go.
I think I have maladaptive daydreaming. I’ve done quizzes upon quizzes though I know that they aren’t scientific or reliable, I’ve read the PDF of what I think is the official scale, and they all apply to me/ indicate I have maladaptive daydreaming.
What do I do? I have an online friend, she has DID, totally different I know, but she was the one that explained to me about MaDD and gave me the best advice ever.
It was thanks to her I told my friends, and thanks to her I told my parents and asked them to get me tested.
My friends totally got it, as much as is possible. They understood me.
My parents didn’t.
They told me I was ‘overreacting’. That I had an ‘overreactive imagination’. That nothing had happened in my childhood to cause this.
I’m still a child. I’m still young. But in my younger years, I read thousands of books, I was a really advanced reader for my age. But the amount of books I read was the reason I found my childhood boring.
Because I wanted to be in those books. Be in some other world where I was more special than just an average girl.
I don’t know. I don’t know if I have maladaptive daydreaming. I don’t know how to get tested. I don’t know how to make my parents understand.
I just wanted to know I wasn’t alone
I think I have maladaptive daydreaming. I’ve done quizzes upon quizzes though I know that they aren’t scientific or reliable, I’ve read the PDF of what I think is the official scale, and they all apply to me/ indicate I have maladaptive daydreaming.
What do I do? I have an online friend, she has DID, totally different I know, but she was the one that explained to me about MaDD and gave me the best advice ever.
It was thanks to her I told my friends, and thanks to her I told my parents and asked them to get me tested.
My friends totally got it, as much as is possible. They understood me.
My parents didn’t.
They told me I was ‘overreacting’. That I had an ‘overreactive imagination’. That nothing had happened in my childhood to cause this.
I’m still a child. I’m still young. But in my younger years, I read thousands of books, I was a really advanced reader for my age. But the amount of books I read was the reason I found my childhood boring.
Because I wanted to be in those books. Be in some other world where I was more special than just an average girl.
I don’t know. I don’t know if I have maladaptive daydreaming. I don’t know how to get tested. I don’t know how to make my parents understand.
I just wanted to know I wasn’t alone
I know this is kinda a late reply, but anyway. It's interesting you mention you were a voracious reader. I was (and am!) also a huge bookworm. I notice a common thread within these posts: Many of the members happen to be readers with books as a trigger. Perhaps that's a reason that we've developed MD, because I can't think of a particularly traumatizing event that might've started this. Whenever I watch movies, read books, etc, I find my DD tends to revolve around the settings and general plot. For example, I was watching The Tudors, and right after, my DD was set in the Tudor era with me at the battlefront of England's fight against the French.
Like you nothing bad happened in my childhood but I have had these symptoms since I was around 5/6 years of age.