My Story - plus a question: is Maladaptive Daydreaming inheritable?

[Irene]

Hey guys, I'm new here so nice to meet you all! It's really nice to know that I'm not the only one facing this problem:)

My friend was the one who brought it up first, when I was in secondary school. She would always say "Hey! Stop daydreaming" Honestly I didn't know I was daydreaming until she said this. It wasn't a problem until my teacher once yelled at me in class "You weren't listening! Where are you, floating in space?" I felt very helpless and humiliated because I was blamed for something I didn't even intend to do! Then I started to think that I'm a freak :(

Now studying in university, no one cares if I'm not paying attention. But I notice that in a 1-hour lecture, I'll have about 45 minutes 'not being there'. I tried many times to concentrate, but often your eyesight just blurs slowly and you're lost again. It seems that going to lectures is just pointless to me.

I really really hate this.

So, it's obvious that my mum daydreams A LOT. You can see her just sitting there at home, staring at nothing, ALWAYS. When I was younger, I thought that everyone being at home would do the same, which is unfortunately not true. 

Do you have any family members that daydream a lot like you?  What do you guys think? 

[Roobles]

Hi welcome, your story is very interesting and like mine in ways. I always get told I'm miles away and not listening .
It's a interesting theory if it is inheritable as my mum often says I have the same "listening and concentrating" problem as my dad.
My dad works from home and rarley goes out unless with my mum. And he not got many friends and often spends lots of his time in his room I guess dding but he never openly says.

To be honest I thought everyone dd too and this was a normality utill I researched it as I was getting to the point u really wanted my dd to be true that it hurt, then I found its only a few of us

[Wish Upon A Wish]

I remember once my brother said that he sometimes smoke a little weed because he worked screwy hours and it helped him get to sleep, because his brain was always buzzing. I don't think he's got MD, but I know my brain's always buzzing in a DD when I want to try to sleep. And no, I'm not going to start smoking weed. No smoking anything and not drinking much, and never getting wasted are some of my goals, actually. I know, sounds stupid, but it's true.