Ever have this happen in school?

[Grace]

In school, have you ever been daydreaming, then a teacher says,"What are you doing, daydreaming? Pay attention!" Or something like that? Whenever that happens, I just feel so... Weird. I know they don't know about MD, and I keep thinking: They don't know that I cannot help myself. They see kids not paying attention all day, so when I do it, it's like it's no different. But, it is. When I get called out on it, I look around, hoping no one would think anything of it either. Does that happen to anyone else? How do you feel?

[Rashomon Effect]

You taking my response personally and assuming it has anything to do with your age is baseless.

I never said or implied that your opinions are not valid due to your age. So, the quote marks around "young and stupid" have nothing to do with me.

I challenge the merits of post. I don't attack individuals. I will reply to post as I see fit. I don't believe I have always disagreed with you. I do tend to disagree with the majority view of Maladaptive Daydreaming and feel very strongly that the majority view of Maladaptive Daydreaming is detrimental to folks who really wish to improve their lives.  If you have read other post, you will see that I strongly disagree with Dr Schupak's approach to discussing Maladaptive Daydreaming.  So, you fit right in with most folks who identify as MD and if you read many post, you will see that I disagree with most and visa-versa. It is detrimental to folks who have real problems to mislead them and pander to them. I want people to get help they need and take control of their life. The vast majority of folks who identify as MD, have some other problem that, in many cases, is serious and needs to be addressed.

I am an advocate of people, not of a disorder.

You have no reason to take it personally just because I have disagreed with you or questioned your post. That is what this forum is about, an exchange of experiences and opinions. I don't feel I was unkind. If folks aren't allowed to disagree, it should be called Pandering Minds, not Wild Minds.

[Jennifer]

@Rashomon Effect: What I consider the difference is that MDers struggle with this on a regular basis. Normal kids just space out. It happens. I didn't mean anything by it, I was simply replying to the blog.
Also, when I posted MY blog, I wasn't saying that my MD is gone forever. I was saying it is gone temporarily because I'm happier now that I have been in a long time.
Do you have a problem with me? Not like me, or something, because everytime I post something, or reply to a comment stating my person opinion, I feel like you are always the first one to start trying to prove me wrong. I was just asking if changes in mood could affect MD. I wasn't saying that a new relationship caused my MD to vanish. Look, i know I may be a 15 year old girl, but that doesn't mean that I am any less mature than an adult. I've seen things. And I've grown up a lot for my age. So, if you don't agree with anything I have to say because I'm "young and stupid," then just stop replying and attempting to "challenge" what I have to say all of the time. I can't think of a time where you've actually agreed with me once. And I don't know if you're meaning for it to come off the way it is, but it's starting to bother me.

[Rashomon Effect]

Jennifer, I would really like to know what you feel the difference is between "normal" kids not paying attention in class and people who call themselves MDers not paying attention.

In a different post, you mentioned MD going away simply due to a change of mood. Do serious conditions simply go away when you start a new relationship?

So I guess you feel a police officer who stops an alcoholic who is driving drunk should say, "Oh, I thought you were just a normal person driving recklessly. If I had known you were alcoholic and had a disease, I never would have pulled you over. Carry on."

[Jennifer]

Yes! Thank you for posting this, I no longer feel as if I'm alone. :) I'm sorry this happened to you. Whenever teachers or my parents say something like this to me, I get SO enraged, glare at them and think, "If only you knew..." I happen to space out a lot in school. Some of the time I don't even get called out on it. Usually it's a lot of me suddenly beginning to daydream, and not snapping out of it and realizing what I was doing until 15 minutes later.
The other day in the middle of class, I began to daydream, and realized I had made a facial expression and gesture, and snapped out of it immediately, freaking out and wondering if people saw it. That was scary!

[Jeremy Er]

It happens to most of us all the time.

Both my teacher and my parents thinks that I'm failing on purpose. D:

[Wish Upon A Wish]

I never really had that because as a child, I could still focus in class, and as a teen the teachers never noticed, even after I told them about MD and that I may look like I'm working when I'm not.

[ElizabethRose]

That happened to me a lot as a kid in school. I'd get paranoid that anyone looking at me could read my mind and tell what I was Dding about, so I think I stopped.

[Rashomon Effect]

Why do the kids, who you say are more capable than you, ever daydream at all?

Since they have abilities that you lack, why don't they just pay attention?