Autistic People Don't Daydream?

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03 Nov 2012, 9:44 pm

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.

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03 Nov 2012, 10:22 pm

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There was a different study on what NTs thought about while daydreaming in the MRI machine, this time reporting what they had thought about after the imaging. People mostly thought about what they going to do with their day, week, month. The dry cleaning that they had to pick up later that day. The party that they were going to that weekend.

Those are sad daydreams.

If that's what most people daydream about, that's pathetic.

I daydream constantly...probably part of the ISFP personality. Screw people that think autistic people aren't creative, it's a completely untrue stereotype and very harmful.

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03 Nov 2012, 11:27 pm

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.

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04 Nov 2012, 11:54 am

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.

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04 Nov 2012, 11:56 am

unduki wrote:

The test was also botched because they assumed "not daydreaming when told to concentrate on a cross" equates to "doesn't daydream".

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04 Nov 2012, 11:57 am

Ganondox wrote:

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The test was also botched because they assumed "not daydreaming when told to concentrate on a cross" equates to "doesn't daydream".

It probably just made them think of how messed up religion was haha.

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04 Nov 2012, 12:03 pm

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

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04 Nov 2012, 12:09 pm

unduki wrote:

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

There is no other view on religion than that on man. Religion is man-made, after all.

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04 Nov 2012, 12:11 pm

Sanctus wrote:

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

There is no other view on religion than that on man. Religion is man-made, after all.

As is god; we by nature see the illogic in religion, as research proves. Why I am saying we would likely see no point in staring at a cross.

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04 Nov 2012, 12:11 pm

Sanctus wrote:

unduki wrote:

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

There is no other view on religion than that on man. Religion is man-made, after all.

So you declare. You don't know.

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04 Nov 2012, 12:15 pm

unduki wrote:

Sanctus wrote:

unduki wrote:

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

There is no other view on religion than that on man. Religion is man-made, after all.

So you declare. You don't know.

No, but neither do you.
Ah well, let's not let this develop into a religious debate.

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04 Nov 2012, 7:25 pm

SanityTheorist wrote:

EstherJ wrote:

btbnnyr wrote:

Those are sad daydreams.

If that's what most people daydream about, that's pathetic.

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?

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04 Nov 2012, 8:05 pm

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

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04 Nov 2012, 8:10 pm

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.

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04 Nov 2012, 8:20 pm

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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...

I think it would be frightening. I don't have a deep fascination for the space and planets. They look horrible to me. If I would be there, I would feel like I would be in a huge stomach with cells and organs and darkness everywhere. :eew:

I really wonder sometimes if we aren't the cells or atoms of a huge creature. Nevermind!

wut?

why u mess up my dreem? :evil:

Not nice. Not nice at all. :shameonyou:

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04 Nov 2012, 8:28 pm

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

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