Just sitting and thinking...what's so weird about that?!

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I can sit or lay down and think for hours. Sometimes I get upset when I have to do something because I feel like I wasnt done thinking. Sometimes I will do it in the middle of a conversation with someone and realize I was so lost and deep in my thoughts that I hadnt heard anything they said and realize I was enjoying my thoughts and what I was thinking about much more than sitting there talking and then I will have the urge to go be alone so I can enjoy my thoughts without having to deal with paying attention to mindless chatter about the weather or someones dog. Im usually thinking about something that is of particular interest to me and for some people that is the weather or their dog. I then feel bad because I do enjoy sitting next to someone, I do enjoy company and not being alone but sometimes id rather be alone in my room to think. Sometimes its relaxing but sometimes it stresses me out because if you get stuck on something negative thinking about the something negative over and over can cause depression. I will over think things sometimes. A miscommunication. A social interaction that went bad. I will think about it over and over trying to figure out what happened and where it went wrong. I think a lot and I dont think that is ever going to change about me so I just have to make the effort to focus on the positive aspects of whatever it is Im thinking about.

@Triple_B: well-put! (Love that movie, btw.)

I get accused of "zoning out" when I float off in thought. But why is being lost in thought such a terrible thing? Isn't that how problems are solved, how things get invented? One friend charitably put it as me being very "introspective". I was under the impression that everyone did this, but I've since been informed that they don't. People should be glad I'm thinking about stuff instead of just jabbering about random bull$#!+ to hear myself talk (I do that too). It IS possible that the reason people get weirded out is because of WHERE I "get introspective" -- standing in the yard looking up into a tree, behind the wheel of the car, in the middle of conversations with people. That last one isn't my fault -- those people should make themselves more interesting than what's going on in my head...

During a lot of my recent zoning out and thinking, I've been mentally inventing a musical synthesiser. I'm now building said musical instrument for real, so yes that is indeed how things get invented

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I have Autism. My communication difficulties mean that I sometimes get words wrong, that what I mean is not what comes out.

I could swear I already posted here, I remeber typing out the message... Can I just not find it?
I said that I spent most of my time at night just thinking, and thinking and thinking. It's a great way of solving problems for me, because I sort of have an internal debate and work things out with myself as my own teammate.
(Come to think of it, I think it's a very similar topic I posted on, about having conversations yourself in your head)

The question I can never seem to answer when someone interrupts my Think Time / Zoning Out.

"What are you thinking about?"