Autism People Don't Daydream???

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I think I daydream. It's changed though, I used too be in a gaze but be very aware of my surroundings and what was going on, but now I spend a lot of the time in lessons day dreaming and not being aware of what the teacher is saying or people around me. I often grin and laugh while I daydream which leads people to think I'm enjoying the conversation I'm completely oblivious too and am a supposed participant too, so I guess it's kind of cool in a way, I think it makes me come across as polite.
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what university did this come from. University of Idiotics International?

I Daydream all the time for god sake. lol

In a new study scientists have revealed that people with autism do not daydream.

Pretty much disagree with that. I daydream alot of the time, I have my own world in my head

I'm curious about where they got this from. I daydream so much it's like I'm stuck in my head.

This is going to be another thing like we ALL have a ring finger longer than our index, isn't it?

No. No faux REM state here. I am always aware of everything around me simultaneous to seeing images. It's something like a double exposure.


Back to the study. Everybody else pretty well shredded it. All the researchers actually proved is that their NT subjects tended to have different brain scan images while looking at a picture of a cross than their autistic subjects did. It's a finding that doesn't point to anything other than "wired differently but still not sure exactly how" and it's a finding that sheds absolutely no light on daydreams and doesn't even research daydreams. But 6 pages of posts saying "yes I do so daydream you idiots!"already proved that.

I have that double exposure too. Like I can daydream, acknowledge the crying baby, go change the diaper and whatever, sit back down and kinda hit back to that daydream if the world around me lets me. I could probably do it while functioning (like during the changing of the diaper), but then I'm sure I'd totally mess it up (like put hte diaper on backwards). But I can drive and daydream at the same time pretty safely, and I think other people have posted things pretty similar to that. I also am very aware of my surroundings when I'm falling asleep or waking up (during REM). I love it when I crash at a friend's house while everyone stays up later than me partying and starts talking about me because they'll think I'm sleeping, and I really am sleeping, but I'm also paying attention to what they are saying. If it's useless, I forget about it, but if it's something of interest to me, I can wake up to handle it or remember what was said when I do wake up (depending on the situation).

I wish there was a way we could inform the people of that study to come here and read these posts.

Increased rotational movement of a wheel with traction will still not necessarily increase rate of motion on surfaces of a constant frictional resistance. You could just be spinning your wheels faster in the mud. The direct measurement is yielding a correct result, you are making faulty assumptions based on those results due to a poor use of reasoned logic methods. Every single thing you declared as a FACT! is incomplete at best. Using an incomplete model to make an invalid assumption to attempt to demonstrate something is not going to get you very far, but it does get you somewhere. The invalid assumptions of Kennedy get us to a conversation about why he is wrong.

Semantics matter because they are the underpinnings of all communication. Even highly intuitive non-verbal communications have a semantics. Semantics is the process by which a thing is understood, semantics is meaning. You can not make the statement semantics are useless without using semantics to do so thereby refuting your own argument by attempting to make it. They have just demonstrated their own usefulness by you attempting to make use of a semantic process to be understood saying they have no use.

If we properly adjust, assuming that increased energy output of the engine results in increased rotation of the wheel and this will result in increased frictional resistance which will increase rate of movement across a plane can work, up until you forgot to adjust for the entropic forces of the friction on the rubber of your tire causing it to melt and tear apart and the whole thing "burns out" and rolls itself. We know deductive/inductive logical reasoning is useful because the only way you can prove it is not useful is through deductive/inductive logical reasoning. We can only deduce and induce via a reasoned logic based upon that which we perceive and we have incomplete and imperfect perceptions.

If they are idiots, reason out why they are being so. Use a logical process to establish what is actually correct. Use language to explain why they are wrong and what is correct. Every step of the way you will be making use of a semantic process. If I assign the the meaning of "these three portions of the brain" to the symbol "The Rest Network" and then assign the meaning "the activation of The Rest Network" to the symbol "Resting" and then I assign the meaning "the increase of oxygenation as seen by fMRI" to the symbol "activation" then based on the findings of the fMRI's of the I think it was 15 individuals ranging along the spectrum and 15 NT individuals, the NT individuals all rest in one way and the spectrum individuals rest in another way. I could then assign the meaning of the symbol "Daydream" to be "the NT style resting" and assign the meaning "the autistic constant low level activation" to the symbol "The Waking Daydream".

Based on this I can design further experiments to test out how well this holds up. The strength of support for a hypothesis is derived from the predictive power it gives. As Plato would say, You have power over that which you name. This is why I care about semantics.

What the study says is that "autistic people don't daydream in the same way the non-autistic people", does not say that "autistic people don't daydream".

this post is 2 years old haha, cant believe soembody found it hehe, i know i day dream, my daydreams though are of families,i like making families in my head dont ask me why lol haha, but i saw this article and thought that was stupid, its like saying all autsitics dont think either. I rarely daydream, only if i ahve the right tone of music then its listin families in my head and of my brother hehe. anyways thanks for bringin an old post back hehe

I used to think I might be the only one who did it and that it was a weird waste of time. I even tried for months to quit and I just couldn't do it. Now I'm supposed to be one of the few who don't!?

Well I'm not really sure if I daydream. I occasionally detach from the world and merely observe and comment to myself, as though everything is a foreign object, also known as "spacing out".

I don't ever do anything similar to actual dreams, though.

I find the concept of "daydreaming" hard to understand. Like describing sight to a person who is blind from birth. Maybe I daydream...I don't know.

well I dream during the day, but it is usually about reptiles, or plants

I daydream, it was something that was noted in a lot of report cards from school when I was young too. That I was often off in my own world and not focused on classroom work.

Lol, you just described me perfectly! I day dream a lot.

dittoish only i am HFA Classic Autism

i daydream..does it means i'm not autistic? lol