When did your maladaptive daydreaming start?

[Coy]

Just wondering, I know that mine started silently but I could guess that it was when I was about 8. It was probably because of how antisocial I was...

[Cordellia Amethyste Rose]

I've been doing this all my life.  My earliest memories are of daydreaming.  

[Bonnie]

I also can not remember but as ealry as 5 years I was already a day dreamer!

[Iris]

I was 9, my parents just got divorced and I moved with my mother to another place. There it started.

[Tony]

Within the past 2 or 3 years (I'm 43). I believe I know how/why it started and think I know how I might be able to end it or at keast get it under control, but I am unable to do so at this point.

[Jennifer]

8/9 years old...can't quite remember which one. But, I know it started from losing two of my young cousins 10 months apart. It began from trauma.

[Aseel]

I started to daydream when I started high school,I found myself with new people that I don't know any of them,add to that I started to lose contact with my old friends.

[Kathy]

I've been doing it as long as I can remember too.

[Kristen]

I remember being in daycare and still daydreaming, or acting out fantasies that even at that age was elaborate.  I found a note my parents received from one of the sitters/teachers saying, "Kristen doesn't play with the other kids but instead puts on these complex shows for herself.  She's has a very active imagination."

[Luna]

I think I started when I was 6 or 7.

[Reyna]

It started when i was 9 now that i think about it my family had just moved from mexico new school, new language.. maybe thats why it started i didnt really have any friends since i didnt speak english..

[Vanessa]

I started when I was 4.

[tiziana]

I think..maybe 10 or 11...