Excessive daydreaming interfering with level of functioning

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rainbow, could it possibly be low dopamine? When I was on risperidal for a good stretch of my teens I was in something like a forced daydream much of the dime where my brain was just swimming in its own chatter and I could barely break through it; its like my consciousness was too dim and diffused to pull together and focus. Now that I've been off that stuff for almost 12 years I've noticed big improvements there, I still had a proclivity to fall back to that state (8 years of it set my body that way) and spending maybe a year on ritalin helped break me out of that - as of today I haven't needed any meds at all, a few endurance problems but that's just I think the PDD-NOS more than anything.

It's been a problem for me all through school. It made me very unaware of other people around me, but like CC said...to use it to your advantage can work wonders. I used my daydreaming to dream of different social situations and to analyse people in my head. I used to be completely clueless...as in, when I was 15 I'd go up to someone and just ask them, "Will you be my friend?"

I still have an interest in trying to work people out - guess who people I meet are... and how they tick. I read books on how people work, but most of my analysis is done in my head. I'd say I can get away with appearing NT when I'm not nervous. If I'm nervous though I go back to square one. I remember reading somewhere that you don't really grow out of AS, but you just gain knowledge on how to deal with it.

I sometimes wonder if it's as a result of analysing people so much that it made me care a lot less about them. Like apparently when you learn how to do comedy...when you're analysing it so much, it isn't so funny. It doesn't really bother me that I don't have many acquaintances/friends.

Sorry, back to topic...my daydreaming held me back from being able to socialise at first, and then I used it to gain social skills, if that makes sense.

It sounds to me that some of you may have Maladaptive Daydreaming, which is a condition that causes excessive daydreaming. Google "Maladaptive Daydreaming" and look at the site that talks about daydreaming your life away.

It sounds to me that some of you may have Maladaptive Daydreaming, which is a condition that causes excessive daydreaming. Google "Maladaptive Daydreaming" and look at the site that talks about daydreaming your life away.