Autistic People Don't Daydream?

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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.