does anyone else have a plot in their daydreams but they have like different routes like “okay but what if this happened instead” and u pause the main plot… kinda like choice based video games 💀
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-The Reality of Being a Maladaptive Daydreamer-
Your legs hurts from pacing/jumping
You neglect personal care such as eating to have more time to daydream
Hours of your life gone due to being in your head
Creative ideas, stories, and characters are often not written down
You make weird faces out loud
You say what you were saying in the daydream out loud
You reflect on the time you wasted daydreaming
Being caught pacing, you feel embarrassed.
You isolate yourself from others more.
You feel sad knowing the fictional world you created is just that
Music and other media are triggering
You feel a withdrawal after not daydreaming for some time.
You never fully feel grounded in reality
You feel it's out of your control
You get jumpy and anxious when you think there is someone coming by who might've heard or seen you pacing/jumping
You feel, when not dreaming, alone
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i feel like maladaptive daydreaming is so fucking hard to cope with or manage because it just creates this never ending cycle of relapse where your heavy daydreaming takes a toll on your life so when you finally try to limit it you're so ashamed and disappointed by what your real life has become/what you done or haven't done that you just collapse and continue the bad habit that caused it in the first place. it becomes so engrained in your daily life and the way you think that you don't realize how much you rely on it until you try to stop. next thing you know, you're on the shower and you realize you can't go more than ten seconds without slipping away. the days go by so fast but in the moment, you're so desperate for any kind of escapism cause you're just not used to sitting in the real world. i have no identity. my entire mental state is dependent on it. how well i'm doing is entirely defined by the daydream ideas i can scrape up. i'll have a complete mental break and then the next day i manage to be whisped up in another dream, one that promises to stay, to be kind. to love me, and then the cycle starts all over again.
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when creating me, the gods decided to make me a maladaptive daydreamer but failed to give me any writing abilities and just said 'suffer'
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i'm fucking tired
being neurodivergent in this world is exhausting. im so fucking exhausted.
let me rest. please.
i am just trying to get by in this world built for different brains.
let me be myself. let me be loud. let me talk to myself. let me stim. let me run around. let me daydream. let me experience my joy. let me live.
let. me. rest. please. i am. SO FUCKING DONE.
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MALADAPTIVE DAYDREAMERS I HAVE AN APP FOR Y'ALL
So, it's called Story Plotter on android and you can make a load of characters as well as their whole backstories and also plot and very handy diagramms where you show the characters relations to each other.
This is what part of mine looks like, its very easy to navigate and you have infinite options for everything!
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saying good night and retreating into my room because i got a really good idea for a daydream while i sleep
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