Spacing out?

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Just wanted to know what this could possibly be. I am very spacey. If I am bored especially, I will stare at nothing, sometimes not even blinking for maybe half and minute to a minute, just thinking. I try not to do it but I catch myself all the time. I will often stare at one thing, then snap out of it forcefully myself, then go on to stare at something else.

Also I live mostly in my own mind. I don't notice changes in the world around me very well (opposite of AS actually?) I also just let things slide often, like if something is out of place and it's not important to me personally I won't mention it, but most people would. My mind always has music playing though, I wonder if it's just background noise to help it think better.

Angnix, I hear you 100% my friend. It always got me how my siblings and mother MUST stick to a rigid routine for work, projects..etc. It's totally opposite for me I really don't care much about anything that goes on around me (good or bad) and often don't even notice.. I drive to school everyday and I don't even notice buildings on the side of the freeway, unless somebody points it out. I used to be really aware of my surroundings and could react right on time, it was nice when the world didn't seem so strange and fake to me.

Do you ever find yourself stopped dead in your tracks staring at the ground then "snap" out of it and don't realize how you got there? This could be a sign of petit mal seizures. I used to have them alot and had no idea until I had a follow up after I had a full out tonic clonic seizure. I'm not saying you have epilepsy, but it's possible especially if you are not aware that your spacing out while you are spacing out.

This thread speaks to me.

I've been spacing out a lot, since summer. I can't really explain it. I have to remind myself that I have things to get done, so that I can stop myself from spacing out. I've been pretty spacey throughout my life.

Sure, all the time. Sometimes even with a fork full of food halfway to my face. I don't "lose time" during them, though.

Oh yeah. My doctor had examined me for days. He says I have petite mal seizures. I enjoy them because my mind stops during those periodsl.

I do that all the time, I was just doing it right before I read this thread in fact. Just staring into space, at nothing in particular, thinking and contemplating. I love doing it, my mind is at ease and I just think

Guerrillero Heroico was one of the most important and candid photos of Che Guevara. The photographer so happened to be there as Guevara looked blankly at an industrial accident (it's the image of Che on just about every image of Che Guevara). Anyways, I believe I have such a stare. When riding on busses, or waiting in lines. I turn my brain off and zone out.... So people just wave their hand infront of me, family members and what not. It happened over the new years too, my new step sister, I just met though I was sleeping. with my eyes open and sitting up, because I was so still. ha ha ha.

I get this way when I'm stairing into a fire... My brother's ex girlfriend even called me spacey casey, a good alien.

I do possess good attention to detail but when driving/walking or in a bland situation my mind goes into autopilot. If there is sudden movement or shiny object in my view my attention will often shift to it. Whether I am aware or in trance depends heavily on my surroundings.

I'm constantly spacing out and then thinking about random things of interest or even making theories off of information I have in my head.

It's strange how people perceive this as "stupid" when if you subtract all that I've learned from spacing out then I might have been.

I have the same problem. I also have ASD/AS and I am very bored most of the time and many people think that I might be slow becasue of this. I would daydream alot and people think that I am a idiot because of this. Sometimes I would not be paying attention and when someone says something to me I would go "What" and the other person would say to me "Dude your really slow" or "Dude your such an idiot" I also got people thinking that they are smarter than I am because of how slow I have to reacting to what people are saying. Peolpe think that I am ret*d or something because I have a hard time focussing on what people are saying to me. I doze off in my mind a lot and I have a really hard time reacting to things when people are talking to me and I wonder does anyone else have this problem that I do?

I'm the same way as well. I can space out for hours if nobody tries to get my attention. This could be attributed to my history of dissociative disorders, but I try not to think of it as a bad thing. It's only bad if it really disrupts your daily life, and I've gotten adept enough at being able to stay focused on tasks I need to do.

I've been spacing out since I can remember. Back in middle school, I became aware of doing it and not even realizing it when a foster mother got upset with me over it and told my therapist.

It's just one of those things that's a constant in my life. I never wonder anymore why it happens, or if I should be trying to stop it.

I space out more than I would like to admit. I don't even know what I do everyday when I think back, because I spend most of my time just staring at nothing or laying curled up under a blanket. I like people to think I'm asleep so I don't have to explain myself.

The world feels so distant and surreal, it's like I'm just here to observe.