Have you spent years isolated in your daydreams, only to come out of them and be shocked at the difference between them and reality?

[Truthful Alibi]

So here's what I mean: I spent YEARS as a child pacing around the playground, daydreaming. In my daydreams, I would comfort people, let them cry on me etc. But when I finally started to force myself to stop DD in public, it shocked me that how when they cried I couldn't even be near them, let alone comfort them.

That's my example. Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

[Skylar Grey]

well i guess you could say ive experienced something like that.. In my daydreams Im just plain and simply perfect. I help everybody out, make everybody laugh, have no enemies except for a few that just think theyre better than me or whatever. Anyways, one of my favorite parts of having MD is seeing myself so stunning and likeable, but when i eventually venture back into reality, it makes me feel depressed to realize that i am nor will i ever be the gorgeous popular girl i seem to be in my fantasies.

[Bibby]

It is the harsh reality of it.  I would tackle something in real life that I had daydreamed about and then wonder why everything was so hard.  It's like living in my daydream world steals real life from me.

[The Altruist]

Sounds exactly like me, except I'm a guy haha, it sucks right?

lizzy Maslow said:

well i guess you could say ive experienced something like that.. In my daydreams Im just plain and simply perfect. I help everybody out, make everybody laugh, have no enemies except for a few that just think theyre better than me or whatever. Anyways, one of my favorite parts of having MD is seeing myself so stunning and likeable, but when i eventually venture back into reality, it makes me feel depressed to realize that i am nor will i ever be the gorgeous popular girl i seem to be in my fantasies.

[Heinriech Heisner]

So true. The past year has been a great learning experience for me - learning all these social skills that apparently seem natural to everyone else, probably because they were engaged in the real world from the beginning. It's so annoying the way people look at me because my behavior is off just enough that it seems unusual. Luckily I have the benefit ov seeing others' faults in a positive manner because ov my own - goes back to that thread about empathy.