#no i dont have maladaptive daydreaming

[tea-is-toast]

When I have to study Static, I become a woman in the 1800s rural Austria who wasn’t allowed to study nor was that much of an option in her tiny village. But all is changed when on a hike to collect herbs she meets the “crazy” engineer who was rumored to pass through their village years ago.

Then when I have to make models and I don’t want to, I am a runaway noblewoman in a fantasy world whose life is filled with lessons of etiquette or possibly wars, she runs away and sits on tree barks and spends her time carving wood with her pocket knife.

And in times when I don’t have it in me to clean but I have to, I become an apocalypse survivor who’s rummaging through wrecks of houses trying to find things that could be of use to them. Either that or I imagine Im in a rom com in the scene where the female lead decides to stop wallowing in self pity and get their life together or get revenge by becoming better or something…

This is how I live

romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it’s a shame that it’s mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering

[sillycyan]

someone please tell tiktok that maladaptive daydreaming isn’t some quirky hashtag fun thing to have and go through..

[acircusfullofdemons]

sometimes I wonder if having the daydream doc is worth it. there's a lot of overly specific terminology & media that isn't about madd but gives off those vibes and a bunch of other useless shit in there.

and sometimes I feel like I'm the only one that cares about preserving all this info. and tbh no offense to anyone out there but I think maybe I am. which is okay obviously, this keeps me entertained and I feel like I'm doing something important even if in the grand scheme of things I'm not.

but then I look at everyone who's expressed gratitude over the doc, those who have found words for their experiences and. idk. I guess if it helps even one person out there it's worth it.

[mintaikk]

Having ADHD combined with maladaptive daydreaming is the worst because I'll just be sitting in class and the teacher calls on me for a question but then gets concerned because I don't hear her and I also look like this

[abimee]

i sew entirely by hand and i recognize that this is innefficant in that what takes me 2 days could take me like 25 minutes and that my stitches are sloppier this way but i also refuse to submit to the machine yet purely on the grounds of needing a hobby that will consume large chunks of my time so that i dont get bored enough to accidently fall into a dark place. like playing league of legends

[maddgical-boy]

sometimes in a paracosm based off of pre-existing fiction where most of the main characters are adults, you can add in a few teenage paras. for flavor

yall i am a mega idiot and forgot to add vinny's ankle wings 😭 rest assured they are there in spirit (but are usually there in physical form)

[kyathedino]

I hate it when I'm trying to be mysterious and elusive and people decide to just respect my privacy😔

[blue-madd]

Made some picrews for my new Elmentian paras + the 3 older babies~

O'Liv,

Enh'eyra,

Atlas, Mona, Tori

[1zashreena1]

Everyone is fine with me being autistic until I behave autistically

[alyimoss]

think ive made this post before but i am eternally cursed with liking ships that are decently popular and have content but very consistently have the complete wrong dynamic so i end up getting no content anyway

[valodia]

. Beware long tags.

[sillycyan]

Me after creating a whole COUNTRY in my head

[everyone-with-a-para]

i hope everyone with a para who's suicidal has a great day

^^^^^^

[planethead]

i hate having a creative and colorful imagination and not being able to draw anything from it 😁

[shiftperception]

man the immersive daydreaming tag real as hell. too bad every post is also tagged with disorders i don’t have so my ability to interact is limited.

[slingerapen]

Ive been kinda leaning towards ocd diagnosing since the man introduced me but idk how accurate that is. I think for now I should remember that what I'm thinking is usually not what I'm actually feeling, and if I ground myself and ask myself that: "ok, what are you actually feeling right now?", it really helps to break out of my maladaptive thinking.