Autistic People Don't Daydream?

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VERY pathetic. I almost never daydream about this stuff, unless it's an event related to my special interests...

I daydream most of the time, I zone out, space out like mad (ADHD brain at work...). When I daydream, I usually think about various issues (social justice, LGBT rights, the war on drugs, spiritual issues, psychological topics and so on - obviously, I'm mostly thinking about my special interests) or make up stories about the characters in my stories. If left to my own devices for an inordinate amount of time, I probably spend most of it daydreaming about stories. I seldom daydream about myself and, then, it's usually related to a special interest or helps to alleviate some emotional tension...

Come to think of it, my daydreaming is 99.999% related to my special interests (the gay community, psychoactives, psychology, the stories I'm writing). That doesn't surprise me at all, I'd have expected this from Aspie me... What about you? Does your daydreaming relate to your special interests/obsessions?

I daydreamed a little bit just scrolling through the topics on this forum.

I generally find though I zone out a lot I do not have day dreams but rather am thinking about lots of things. So to a certain degree I can not daydream.

wut?

why u mess up my dreem?

Not nice. Not nice at all.

My special interests are mostly what I go to when "daydreaming".

God says otherwise.

Daydreaming for me often involves devoting a large amount of my day absorbed in something. For example, it could be a roller coaster design. Or perhaps a house plan I'm fascinated in. Today, I have spent a large amount of time deeply thinking about a theoretical phenomena known as time slips (like time warps). I may spend several days, or weeks, absorbed in this. Of course, as I am going about my day at my job and being home with my family, I am not like completely zoned out of what is going on around me.

I can only daydream before I go to sleep when I'm completely relaxed. Otherwise my brain just spins in circles, having conversations with itself, remembering things, etc.

Part of my problem is that I cannot stop daydreaming. There may be something to it though I do notice that I daydream stories up in my head all the time, but anytime I go to write them down, I cannot manage to write the personal interactions between characters. It is like I get to caught up in the object of the story itself that my brain focuses on whether that be the situation, the story theme, the plot, the scenery, etc, etc. But the actual social interactions really kind of allude me.

I think this autisic people don't daydream stuff is krap, but there are times when my head seems to be empty.

I daydream it is bs.