being zoned out constantly

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I don't think the issue is inattentiveness, I think it is dissociation with reality.

I retreat into my internal world to work out problems all the time, gf asked if I was ok, actually.

Had to explain that I've been trying to reproduce the useful aspects of a diffeomorphic manifold, by using something more akin to a mesh of fiber bundles related by a specific minimal distance between intersections, and the manners in which they could interact as an analogue of curving the complex portion of the fiber through a temporal dimension.

"Oh, is that all?"

I spend most of my time in my own internal world, lost in my daydreams, not really taking notice of the things around me, just me and my thoughts or whatever I'm focusing on. I can get so absorbed in one thing and hyperfocus that I almost become deaf to most things including speech, I spend half an hour at one shelf in a book shop looking at a few books, people could be walking past looking at me, there could be a circus parade going on behind me completely unawares. As soon as I put the books down to leave the shop, the outside world comes back really suddenly and I can hear again.

No idea if I have Aspergers or not but this is very me what you're all talking about. I'm a lot like Monkey in this way.
If I'm not on the computer (and sometimes when I am on it and I'm on it most of the time) I daydream nearly 24/7. I make up stories, which I can't translate to books I can sell sadly mainly because the stories involve characters owned by other people and my brain can't take the stories in my head to put them on paper in such a way that pleases me. The big problem is the daydream are not always stuff I'd want to share with other people and I think in pictures or more often movies for lack of a better way to explain it (my daydream movies don't have a rewind button for some reason but I've memorized the main parts of the stories and due to new real books of the characters I use some stories have alternate version several times over depending on if I'm counting the newer real books as having happened or not at any given time).

Tinker Bell from Peter Pan is the main character in one story line I had and I made up a whole world for her since at the time she was the only fairy Disney had and the fairy I knew the most about. I borrowed from all the different fairy stories I've read in 8th grade. (In Study Hall I read the random children's story books that were full of old fairy tales about fairies and brownies and changlings.

(Removed study hall rant)

Note: I've yet to be tested for anything so far other than Cerebral Palsy (I have a light case of it so it doesn't effect my life much) but I'm working toward being tested to see what is with my brain whether it's AS or something else.

i walk a lot, and i'll catch myself stopped at an intersection with no traffic and a "walk" sign and sort of come to, wondering how long i've been standing there. there's no way to cross the road then, without coming across as the neighborhood spaced out weirdo. thankfully there are people in my neighborhood weirder than me.

I take solace in my 'Zone Outs' it's where I feel peace. Trouble is it can happen when people are talking to me and all I hear is Blah Blah - its like listening to the teacher in the Snoopy Cartoons lol!

I rarely Zone out when I'm working at my computer. Usually Zone Out in the social situations.