Autistic People Don't Daydream?

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I daydream all the time.

It can be really cool to fly soundlessly through the galaxy, faster than light itself, yet still somehow, beyond the laws of physics, to be able to see the stars flying by something like in a Star Trek episode. But what would it really look like? Stars would be so far away they couldn't possibly look the way they do in those scenes, could they? Would it be more like watching long rainbow like strips of color drifting by, or...

sorry...

...what are we talking about here?

This article is about six years old. Still, even if people still thought this applied to everyone on the spectrum, I'd just laugh in their faces. Seriously, that's just bollocks. Yes, some autistic people are so pragmatic that the very concept of daydreaming is alien to them, but almost every autistic person (high functioning, mid functioning, low functioning, whatevs) engage in daydreaming or imaginative thought to some degree or another. If there was a competition to judge who was the best at daydreaming, I'd be a good contender. In fact, many people on the spectrum daydream as a coping mechanism for their disability.

I would like to stop daydreaming because it always stops me from doing anything. When I was at school, I used to dream all the time and imagined many things and teachers started to notice this, so they many times have asked me something like "what are you doing, are you dreaming about the immortality of the soul? well, well, well.. let's hear what have you learnt from today". This was one of the reasons why the classmates started to bully me.
Never could listen carefully when others spoke (even if I'm not daydreaming). It happens to me when I'm watching documentaries too.
Could it be from ADD?

So basically these researchers are idiots and should be banned from science forever because they jumped to conclusions. I day dream about being a metal star all the time, and about games I want to make, ect.

One thing I frequently do is daydream about future conversations. For example, if I know I'm going to see a certain neighbor that day, I'll often have imaginary conversations with the neighbor about whatever issues I think will be encountered.

I don't remember any actual conversation sticking much to what I imagined.

Evidently, in 2006, an aspie daydreaming looked different than an NT.

I suppose it still might look different since we have different brains.

Sometimes the people doing these studies get so myopic they miss the big picture What a waste of resources.

Religion's not messed up. Man's view is what's been skewed.