"I admit that I spent too much time on Planet Zuton, and for years, instead of being awake in life. I really regret it now, if I had paid attention and made good, ethical, grown-up decisions, I wouldn't have been in my rut situation these past…"
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I do have asperger syndrome, and I still dream time to time. I feel this ripped up my relationship and social life. People feel I'm not in this world with them. Like they wonder what planet I'm from.…Continue
Fathomable
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When I was a kid, my dream life was inexplicable, almost nobody could've known. The kids were so busy playing, screaming, and hanging out to notice, and the teachers were nice to me. However, when I…Continue
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I always wondered why I found it hard to it into society norms:…Continue
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"Having Asperger syndrome, I have trouble being liked. Some people think I'm a loser. I have no social skills, so they assume I have no friends. They are not surprised that I'm pained, and my family sees too. I don't know how I effect…"
"Real life will not look like what you dreamed about, not even close. I had so many expectations since I was a kid. I believed I'd have a career by now, I'd travel, and experience a few relationships. Thing is that I didn't really make…"
"Yeah, I should be meeting people who I can relate to very well. I haven't got around to this, because I had my nose in applications, trying to find employment, it's a full-time job to get noticed by anyone. I do hang out with my sister and…"
"They're talking about taxes, wars in Europe and Middle East or make Groenland great again? :DJokes aside, talking about politics and similar things can help, I suggest to explain what do you think about it, I do this with my father, sometimes…"
"Thing is that I don't think I know how I make others feel with my behavior—apparently. I unintentionally come off as abhorred, rude, spiteful, or hostile. When really I could be miles away in my head, and not thinking of the next…"
"I live in a house with a family who talks about politics and economics every single day. There is no silly stuff. If I were with friends, we'd be talking about life in general. But my mom feels that my thoughts go towards me, and not the…"
"I've always wanted a boyfriend, never had one, and I wonder how he will take my daydreaming ways. Everybody else had a problem with it. I think the mix between my Aspergers and MD makes them think I'm weird and feel so uncomfortable to…"
"Hello Jessica, I don't know if this can help but you should, as a starting point to deal with a some degree of harmony with MD, to concentrate to these few real friends that you have and cultivate their friendship by keeping in touch with them…"
Being ME
I do have asperger syndrome, and I still dream time to time. I feel this ripped up my relationship and social life. People feel I'm not in this world with them. Like they wonder what planet I'm from. So they can't relate with me almost at all. PLUS. I don't give them an impression that I'm a friendly, intelligent, and social person. So they think, "Weird, no friend to me," and walk off, or even criticize me. And then, they see signs of my MD behavior (grinning, talking to air, pacing, staring…See More
"When I was strongly in the stages of MD, my family and other people felt I was in the twilight zone. My decisions and actions did not make any sense, and my eyes had a distant gaze. My MD real was far out. It's wasn't so much like a comic…"
"I had the exact same issues as you being a daydreamer for a majority of my life. Apparently I have only one friend and she lives in another country. She still doesn't know my shocking secret. I broke up with another girl, and she never found…"
""Life rarely goes the way we want or in the direction we choose. This is a fundamental rule of life. You fall in love but can’t be together, you look for a job but can’t find one; you want to be happy, but often, you can’t.…"
Fathomable
When I was a kid, my dream life was inexplicable, almost nobody could've known. The kids were so busy playing, screaming, and hanging out to notice, and the teachers were nice to me. However, when I became an adult, it became blazingly apparent. Adults start judging me directly and analyze all the things about me, every maneuver and action. Even if I didn't say anything, they'll still quickly assume I wondered, because maybe I didn't listen and hear them correctly. Even my family knows what the…See More
"Martino
Hello, very nice idea try to redirect MD to some task in our everyday life, I can tell that I do something similar to some tasks that I have to do but for the most my DD are still running wild, so I will try harder.
Is not uncommon to DD…"
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If only I did it better
Posted on May 24, 2024 at 9:46am 2 Comments 4 Likes
Parents have been telling their kids over the years that daydreaming doesn't get you ahead in the world. My parents never knew that I was a daydreamer, at least my mom didn't, and I was a very quiet kid. I was always thinking and trailing off now and then. Rather than staying in the present moment with others. I didn't tell them what's been going on in that head of mine.
Whatsoever, when I was 12, my dreams began to get very thick and overpowering. It made me feel wonderful…
Verbal Skills
Posted on May 2, 2024 at 8:01pm 0 Comments 1 Like
I was a maladaptive daydreamer all my life, but it got overpowering starting at 12. I am shocked at how I didn't grow adjusted to my worldly environment and social situations. When I was floundering in other fictional worlds, I wasn't learning to excelerate my volcabulary, speech, and social interaction skills, but also my world perception, such as politics, religion, history, culture, and economics. Eventually, I grew up sounding like an idiot with no brain. Truly I'm a smart,…
ContinueOutside my head
Posted on June 4, 2021 at 1:26pm 990 Comments 4 Likes
This is going to sound annoying. Living in a town for 29 years, all I ever heard by others is that I'm so quiet. They literally couldn't get a word out of me. I was too busy daydreaming in my head to realize how I looked on the outside. I actually never knew it made me look stupid. Non-family can be vigorous that way. I always used MD as a way to escape my frustrations, but it did me more harm that good, so I had to quit. It was the best decision I made.
What…
Friends are not from Dreams
Posted on May 18, 2021 at 4:47pm 10 Comments 1 Like
I spent my whole life looking forward to friends and relationships, and this actually could've happened, if I wasn't living on another planet. When I was a kid, I used to ponder around my room and other parts of the house, imagining situations of how I could meet young people in my area. I'd stand in our shady family office, looking at drawings and poetry, wishing that friends would suddenly pop out of nowhere and say hi. All I had to do was talk to my classmates, get their phone…
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- At 11:40pm on March 21, 2021,
Deep blue said…
Hey do you mind if I ask what kinda job do you do Rn? I'm still a student and I've always wondered what people like us, who have MD, do when they grow up.
- At 12:55pm on February 22, 2021,
Varya said…
- Hi. You can write to me as well, just in case. You seem like a nice and interesting person. varvaraamarantha@gmail.com
- At 5:22pm on February 15, 2021,
- hi, if you want to talk, this is my email, i can hear you, talk to a person who goes through the same situation helps. raulvasconcelosb@gmail.com
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