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Foreveranaspie
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01 Nov 2017, 3:59 pm

Meistersinger wrote:
LostGirI wrote:
Hello,

Bit of a random question really but I wondered if this is a particular trait related to ASD or if it is just me. I often am in my own little world and daydream a lot but I don't tend to see it as a problem or think that it is all too obvious for the most part. However, I'm just thinking over what my boyfriend (well, ex-boyfriend) said to me when we split up. He said that I'm often in my own little world and he knows I can't help it and was saying a load of other things about not understanding what's wrong with me and I'm cagey about it. I think he was saying it's cos of the ASD and I guess I have just accepted it....but is it? Who else is like that? Is that just a me thing or is it more. I do try with him, but sometimes I just need to zone out and it's not even deliberate.


Frankly, I’d rather stay in my own little world, since existing in the real world is not worth it anymore.


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01 Nov 2017, 7:18 pm

The musician called "Celldweller" released a song few years ago called "own little world." This tune might appeal to many of us I know it really does for me I love this song! Check it out on YouTube.


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01 Nov 2017, 7:46 pm

I'm kind of fond of my own little world.

Yes, I used to get the comments at work, along with reference to my lack of ability to keep my attention on something.

Most of the time it was kidding, but I could never tell.


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03 Nov 2017, 10:52 am

I remember being told that negatively by my 6th grade teacher, either because I'd slip into daydreaming at the drop of a hat or I'd get easily distracted by anything going on around me.

When I was 13 I went to a psychologist to get all kinds of tests done at the children's hospital in Halifax, who said in a report given to my parents in secret (which I later discovered one night when I was in the house alone), that I seemed to be in a world of my own and sometimes didn't respond to the questions. And yet no one seemed to think for a moment that this was a sign of autism.

When I used to walk to school, especially in the spring or fall, I'd get completely mesmerized by the beauty of nature around me. How blue the water was, or the way it sparkled, or the fluffy white clouds, or even a robin singing in a tree, which I once pretended to have a conversation with.

And being a cartoonist, my own little world is frequently inhabited by my characters, so why wouldn't I live in it? If only there was a way to do it literally.