Do you spend a fair amount of time " in your own world

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Is spending a fair amount of time "in your own world" part of what autism is all about?

I suspect it is. I've always had a rich world of fantasy inside my head. Oh, the conversations I've had!

That is where you'll find me most often. It helps me deal with certain aspects of daily life.

It seems OK for the mundane parts, and when I am in an environment that would otherwise be overwhelming, but I have to snap out of it when I need to interact, contribute, or otherwise focus.

I suppose so. Managing autism is learning when the perfect time to do that is. It ain't easy though.

With me I can juggle life by giving myself little breaks where I can walk around, listen to music, and zone out.

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I zone off into my own fantasy world a lot. But here is the weird thing. It not about some magical fairyland, nor is it about fortune, fame, women, power or prestige. It's more about visualizing abstract things and how mechanical things work, and a lot of it is very repetitive.

Yes, my own world seems a kind of place where I make new connections about things that I registered outside until some external thing requires my attention

I spend a lot of time in my own little world. The more stressed I am, the more I try to go there. It helps me cope. Sometimes it's a fantasy land, but more often than not I just play incidents over and over again trying to figure them out, analyzing them.

Similar here. I like to imagine structures or patterns. Oftentimes the music I'm listening to impacts what sort of visualization I have. I used to make cartoons of it, it was red, black and white with very repetitive designs that go to the beat of the music. Less often I come up with a solution for programming. Less visual.

I've always been in my own world.

A lot of the time I'm not really aware of what is going on around me. I'm not necessarily in a fantasy world or daydreaming. I just get deeply absorbed in my own mind and/or whatever it is that I'm doing.

I can really relate to both. I daydream a lot, and I also get so busy with my own thoughts when I do... anything really, that I can be unaware of anything else. Not when I'm moving about (I won't walk into a road or anything), but when I sit still, it happens a lot.

If it wasn't for my own little world I'd have no world at all!

I'd like to spend more time in my own world than I do. My family keep pulling me out of it to do things for them and I hate being interrupted, which means I don't always associate my own world as a good place because it feels like it's against the rules to be there. I am greatly conflicted as a result.

More like 100% of the time for me.

That is the hard part, to others it seems we are not connecting, but I am aware of whats going on, I am just occupying the part of my brain that is a tad obsessive.

About it being "against the rules", that is the skill of managing it as someone posted earlier. What has troubled me is that being off in my own world is associated with fantasy. as if I am entertaining myself. Generally I'm working out problems, analyzing things, playing back incidents to better understand what happened.

The only time I might let myself go into fantasy is on a long drive. Something about looking at passing landscapes gets me thinking about different lives. What would it be like to just wander off into a different way of being.

I'm not always the best company on long drives.