So what's your excuse when you get no work done due to MD?

[Andrea]

I've never told anyone that I have MD and I don't really plan to. I'm more inclined to let people think I have OCD or ADD instead :P 

But whenever my classmates find out that I haven't started on an assignment or that I'm really behind on a project, they always say things like "You're only that far?? What have you been doing with all that time?". And I honestly don't have anything to say. It's not like I can tell them that I was away visiting my created fantasy world for hours and hours over the weekend because I can't control my mind. 

So what's your excuse when people ask those sorts of questions? I need ideas :P 

[Wish Upon A Wish]

Usually I just say I got distracted, and because most people who know me know I spend lots of time reading or on the computer, I just say one of those. In fact, it often is, because otherwise Mum'll catch me just sitting/lying with my homework out and staring into space. But then I'd probably just say I was thinking of what to write, or whatever. Ugh.

Sometimes I say I was busy, and because (although school hasn't started yet) I'll soon probably be doing 6 subjects at school and a lot of sports, so I'll just try and use "I had Climbing on" or whatever sport as an excuse, or maybe something about 6 subjects and sport.

[Kirsty Amhert]

I just told them "there was something on my mind". The excuse isn't credible, which will get you scolded or lectured at. I used other's disappointment in me, and my own embarrassment to reinforce myself to try harder to control my daydreaming. It really helped me get a reign on things.

[roxanne]

I have learned to intertwine the DD'ing with real-world activities.  Unless I'm in bed, I'm rarely just DD'ing alone.  I think this ability comes a little more with age, but even as a student, I would turn my homework into some DD-connected activity.