Autism People Don't Daydream???

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I daydream the weirdest things ....like imaginary world or imaginary me or when i creating modules games (neverwinter module) I daydream their characters and based on these characters i create the module game , my daydreams are VERY repetitive , I mean that daydream about the same thing over and over again till I switch to another thing to daydream about over and over again and I stay doing that for a more than half of hour or even 3/4 of hour and when i stop i feel kinda exhausted!

and i usually I flap and "type" with my fingers while daydreaming ....

http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=103 take a look at these parent's comments

I found this comment somewhere :

I daydream about war and people I like.

So our daydreaming is akin to rehearsing, perhaps............

I don't know what daydreaming is, but I let my imagination flow all the time and I live in my own little world in my head. I'm almost schizophrenic in that sense, I tend to play out scenes in my head with characters from my books all the time.

I also tend to place myself in scenarios and see how I act myself, but I never "dream it" I just envision it while I'm doing something else. Like while walking to the store I tend to phase out completely and just think myself into my world, and everything I do "in real life" is automatic.

Did it not ever occur to these scientists that, perhaps because "autistics have different brain wiring", that I/they/we (whatever) don't daydream with the same parts of the brain as NTs??!

Idiocy!

So it seems that they were looking for this brain activity in a certain location, and not just asking autistic to daydream and actually looking for where this activity was coming from; instead, they just assume it would be in the same place (regardless of the wiring).

That seemed pretty obvious to me. I'd have just thought a scientist and a researcher or two would be able to come to the same conclusion.

(edt)Oh..as far as the link about the angry parents...(I can't copy and paste from this computer I'm on..) It talks about how in one part of the study they asked people to concentrate on a cross....
Firstly: If your not christion on some level, I'm sure concentrating on a cross won't help you daydream much....secondly, if i'm asked to concentrate on something for a scientific study, I'll concentrate on it... I'm not going to start daydream about something else....Maybe thats just my literal thinking though()

Just some thoughts . I don't know if this would hold up in the long run.

I daydream a bit these days.
When i was younger i daydreamed almost 24/7.

I daydream all the time really although I wind up in one of my own various little worlds or making new ones although I do rely on some inspiration most of the time and build on that. Most of the time it is not as myself but as one of the characters I have made putting them into various situations. However other times I daydream as just being an observer and watch them act out various situations. Oh yea and when I dream I almost always dream about the characters I made, one time I dreamt that I was one of the anti-hero characters I made and everything looked like a comic book or cartoon.