Do i sound crazy?(PLEASE COMMENT!)

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I just want to make sure - you all are seeing these images in your mind's eye, right and not literally with your eyes. If that's the case then I've been doing it all my life.

Isn't this related to a lot of behavior? In the movie Akela and the Bee the protagonist uses imaginary rope skipping (no rope, just the physical motion) to bring back the spelling of the word she has to produce.

Like a lot of things folks on the spectrum do, it seems to me that this sort of thing is a specialized or intensified version of something many, many people do.

Yes, I drum and or walk barefoot (foot stimming is great!) to intensify my imagination and creativity. I don't think it is quite as vivid a visual experience as what you describe, but it is definitely there. How many people have fallen asleep and launched into great dreams while drumming in bed?

Yes, you sound crazy. See a psychiatrist, so he can give you a neuroleptic and act like he doesn't care when you have a reaction to it. Either that, or you can read what I have to say after reading something other than the title of your post, here. Let's see...

Okay...there is this thing i do...on stairs..or on a bed..

I'll sit on them/it for a few minutes,and then i'll start jiggling my hands..and something happens.

Its like a movie playing in my head...i can see characters in stories that i've made up,and things they'll do....again,all like a seamless movie..this sounds very crazy..but then there is the fact that i know where i am,and i never travel from my spot on the stairs or the bed..i am aware of the fact that i'm not really anywhere the characters are,In fact they don't even know i exist.

and i can control everything these people do,what they look like,ETC,just i HAVE to be moving,and,despite the fact i know how to avoid obstacles where ever i may be while doing this, i don't know if anyone is watching me.

am i crazy?

or wht?

I used to do something similar, although not with movies as much as other perceptions. I agree it's called a vivid imagination, and it's pretty cool. My dad, who's also autistic, said that people used to ask what he was doing when he looked spacey, and he'd say "Playing movies in my head."

As far as catatonia goes, it does not have to involve a loss of contact with reality, not even to the degree of a vivid imagination.

Something not understood so much about catatonia for the most part is that it is not just about freezing. It is about freezing, difficulty initiating movements that can be simple, or activities that can be complex, difficulty stopping, also repetitive movements, echolalia (repeating what others have said), echopraxia (repeating the motions of others), and many other things. I have a movement disorder that can either be described as catatonia-like or parkinson-like, and it exists all the time, whether or not I am frozen, so it becomes meaningless to talk about a "catatonic state". Most autistic people also meet the criteria for catatonia to some degree (some very mildly, some very obviously) because of the way we move and have difficulty starting, stopping, switching, sustaining, etc., various things: It might be that my movement disorder is just an increase in certain difficulties that were there all along due to autism.

One thing I find is that when I freeze completely, I find it easier to understand my environment, and to think in certain ways. My suspicion is that what happens is that needing to understand my environment, think in certain ways, process overloading information, etc., take the front seat, and voluntary movement takes the back seat, hence, freezing in place. So I am usually more aware of my surroundings than usual, not less, when I look the least responsive. And it becomes very aggravating to have people waving their hands in my face and shouting at me.

My hallucinations are more vivid than yours are! Haha!

Why does everyone keep calling me a boy?

do i write manly or something?

Griff,you don't even know what mine are.XD

nope. not crazy. its a talent.


Stephen King is known to have something similar. Though the man has one spooky brain.