Fantasy Alter-Ego

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I went through a phase as a child when I thought I was Superboy. I don't know how I kept reality out of that delusion. It helped that Superboy's alter-ego was supposed to be ordinary. That explained why I didn't share my delusion at the time. Didn't want to blow cover on the secret identity. I think there are levels of self-delusion, and that somewhere very deepdown I knew I wasn't Superboy. Otherwise I suppose I'd have tried to fly, or stop a train.

Yeah, the most recurring one is where I'm married to a boyfriend that I used to have and we have the 4 children (2 of each), I've always wanted. They'd be in their 30s, by now----or, nearing 30----so we'd also have grandchildren. Family would be the center of "our universe", but we'd have a couple of friends. We'd have careers, a house, decent cars----we'd have dogs and cats----maybe the farm with horses, that we'd always wanted. We'd be thinking about retirement, now, and just working the farm until, one day, we just keel-over dead (no suffering), in the haymow.

I have had various alter-egos in the past. As a child and teenager, I could and very often did retreat into an imaginary world for hours on end.

Don't feel like trying to describe it now, plus some of it is quite personal. It's weird how common daydreaming is to Asperger's though, and how recently I found that out. Before then I thought fantasing and daydreaming counted as a 'black mark' against having Asperger's.

When I was around 12-13, I used to want to be like Richie Rich. I even created a political party named after him.

Thank you so much to everyone for sharing. This is something I've never even hinted at to anyone, kept 100% in my head; so I know how personal and private these sort of thoughts are. Thank you again to everyone who has shared

Well people usually want what they don't have, so my fantasy character is tall and blonde. Extremely tough, eats like a horse and can sleep anywhere. Oh and sleeps with a different guy every week, dump them left and right and never want commitment or romance. Why not, as it's fantasy?

When I was a little girl I fantasized about being a rich dude in ancient China with numerous concubines and 35 children.

I guess by reading my fantasy you'd already know I have a perfectly boring life with just one spouse and not many children.

I've made up long elaborate stories involving some SciFi elements. People might find it interesting that although I always had a major part I wasn't the hero in any of them.

It gets really complicated when you have an online alter-ego with a different gender who then takes over as the primary identity! Perhaps that doesn't count as fantasy though.

I had a fantasy of being normal and having lot of friends and being like everyone else than singled out and I fantasized being smart like everyone else. When I was real little, I had a fantasy of going to a school all my neighborhood friends went to and then for real I did start going to that school when I was eight.

Now I have a different alter ego and I like to write about it and instead of making her my ideal self from childhood, I decided to make her different too like me. Yeah there are lot of similarities in my stories from my life and anyone who knows me will notice it too. I also base it off my fantasy too and she lives in London now and is married to an English guy. I created her when I was 15 and she has evolved from there. She seems so real but I know she is not real and she is only in my head.

It would be interesting if all these alter egos could actually meet up.

I put my alter ego on Tomodachi Life.

I've done this ever since I was a child. I lived life through my fantasy life's lenses all the way through high school. I was a particular superhero with a secret identity. Nobody could know my other life and I used it to prop up a very small social life that I was able to make from using that fantasy life. Even today as an adult, I utilize certain sci-fi fantasies to make it through the work day.

I am really grateful that everyone has shared their stories. When i started my mid-to-late twenties, I started to feel like this made me delusional or crazy in some way. I finally shared this with my doctors and they didn't bat an eye at it. They said it was likely a very effective coping mechanism for me and that it was not uncommon at all for people with AS and other certain neurodiverse wiring.

I do. Mainly just being a regular kid who excels at things. Like being really good at playing a musical instrument or being really good at skating. Not that I'm even remotely good at those kinds of things.

Yeah. Didn't you know? I'm a famous author and screen writer.

I'm also just like Batman at times and can take down the strongest foes.

Yup. I definitely do. I've had a few over the years (the details of which are highly personal, so I'm not going to share) and in the last year or so they seem to have merged to create one really bizarre fantasy world.