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Dissociative daydreaming

Postby MisterElusive » Wed Jan 14, 2026 12:00 am

Hello there,

I am having a problem. I am a humanities student at an elite university institution. I normally suffer from Maladaptive Daydreaming, AKA dissociative daydreaming. Due to my medication changes (discontinuing SNRIs) I have increased maladaptive daydreaming. Due to this, I feel more isolated. I was okay with being strongly and stringently independent, even though I have immediate family I live with (two people I cherish the most). Is this normal for Autistic people like me, especially level one Autistic people to gradually increase their maladaptive daydreaming because they are so dependent on it, or over the course of their lives due to isolation and the demands of school, to continuously daydream, then snap out of their chronic dissociation and get back to academia? I am doing fine in University. I am very gifted. However, due to my increasingly active mind and my maladaptive daydreaming, it allows me to process things quickly. I am able to make quicker connections in intellectual ideas in my class regarding say discussions about semiotics. However, I end up alienating the other classmates because I am pushing myself beyond the curriculum. Or, I seem to snap out of my daydreams and repeat things that the professor has said. I can sense the other students getting somewhat alienated. Is this normal for an autistic person who is level one?

How does anyone deal with this? Has anyone experienced this before?
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