Has anybody been caught doing MD?

[Silver Swan]

Has anybody been caught doing MD and their company became embarrassing, even angry, in a real overbearing way?
This could've been at school, work, home or anywhere in public. Were their reactions so tense that it made you be extra careful in future? How did you deal with it? I've worked at home for months, so I sometimes fear if I showed my face to a big crowd, hopefully they won't notice my dazed eyes, short attention span and lousy memory. Strangers have especially noticed that 'I wasn't listening' or I left an important belonging behind, and they didn't take it good.

[Diana Lombard]

I do this all the time. My mother catches me laughing hysterically behind closed doors and will always ask me why I'm laughing by myself. My brother hears me whispering to myself in my room, but they just think I'm weird. I tend not to show many physical signs of daydreaming when I am in public, so people just notice me drifting off and staring into the distance. 

They all collectively notice how I seem to forget things we were just talking about. 

[Yuvis]

Wow it's so surreal to know that there is someone that has or still is experiencing the same tendencies. MD has definitely taken a toll on my friendships. It's forced me to kind of push people away or never connect in the first place out of fear of letting them see who I am. Now my relationships are all superficial. I have many best friends but the authenticity in that is really one-sided. I do care for them, I just can't get out of my head. I feel like I'll never be able to find pleasure in day to day reality and that as I get older, and try to develop a career I'll become even more disconnected and therefore there is no real future for me. How old are you if, I may ask. Or at least how long/when did MD for you become especially debilitating or destructive?

[Silver Swan]

I've lost all my chances to make friends because of my MD. In my youth, my MD got very bad and I allowed it to take over my waking life. It effected how I interacted and put forth my attention on other people. All people could see was that I was far away and making funny "crazy" faces and gestures. I wished that I hadn't let MD envelope my real life and all its potentials. My habits of MD slowed down tremendously only a couple years ago. Now I am more aware of my present and existing surroundings. Still, my parents and sister will catch me laughing at air or staring up at the ceiling and wonder why. MD is definitely nothing you can 100% dispense. It's actually for life, and you do need to learn how to control it. Especially if you want a career and a long-term relationship. When I realized what I actually did to my life, I was so very torn. I found it scary to believe, this was once my mindset.

Whenever I go outside, I wear sun glasses to shield the look of my eyes. I dare not laugh and dance in public, but can't help but brag to myself ongoingly.

[Yuvis]

I have never been good at hiding this, but it's become worse over the years. I uncontrollably laugh and audibly respond to the people in my daydreams quite often. I usually say that I thought of something funny, and I memorize bits from stand up comedy specials I've like to bring up for moments like this to kind of prove that I was really just thinking of something funny or amusing. If was caught talking to myself, I say I was just mumbling errands and things I just remembered I had to do, or sometimes I say I was singing song lyrics. My friends always notice how I just suddenly look off into the distance. My sister tends to notice how I talk to myself. It worries and unsettles her. Ughh It makes me feel crazy. And sometimes strangers give me looks like I'm a homeless person on the street talking to a garbage can and pigeon when I just accidentally laughed to myself. It's embarrassing and I wish I could control it but since I can't, I try to shrug it off and do the things i previously mentioned.