Feeling frequently interrupted

True!

I've found that being generally vague about pretty much everything is usually the easiest way to get along! 

It does seem a bit like having your own planet, especially when you can imagine things in such detail (it's like watching a film in my head).

That sounds like a good way to smooth it over

It's all really interesting. You were clearly ahead of the scientists on this one

I've managed this occasionally. I get a lot of deja vu, occasionally it happens when something in a real life converstion reminds me of something I imagined and I can use my unintentionally pre-prepared response. It does feel like a small sucess!

I've been doing that as long as I can remember - my dad thinks I have my own planet, and that's where I go. I guess it kind of is, an alternate reality where I can control everything, I definitely agree that we use it as a coping mechanism to survive in a world that is so often out of our control. I almost completely stopped for a few years when I was determined to focus on the real world, which has allowed me to actually improve my living situation rather than just imagining it better, but found it has come back (like other ASD-related things) since I started my research. I'm actually quite gald because it makes me happy.

It's so annoying to lose your thread though, like being halfway through a book and your bookmark falling out. I tend to snap at people who interrupt me, too. I find 'oh sorry, you pulled me out of a lovely daydream' usually smooths things over though, as they assume you were thinking about your latest crush or something rather than a complex fantasy life.

Ain't the populist zero hours contract world wonderful!?. ;-) It is a pity I didn't just drop completely out of it years ago. It would have been so much more personally productive. Instead, I rose to the Thatcherite dead-end challenge. What a waste!

She was actually the boss because her job was no longer funded so they moved her to the only available position despite having none of the skills for it. She barely knew how to turn on a computer! I think that's what wound me up the most!

Good way to be! I'd say. In my case, the swearing sometimes happened in full public. That, I reckon, was my version of the meltdown. I've been moving away from it for years, but it flares up out of the blue occasionally. I would say that  I have been getting out of that habit, through what I call 'day-dreaming rehearsal', for decades; long before I ever read about such things as self-hypnosis and auto suggestion. It seems the conscious and subconscious are capable of figuring out how to cooperate. But also worth noting that my pursuance of this approach took me even further into the realms of social invisibility.

She was the boss because she had the gift of the gab. And she definitely didn't stick to the script either. I know I can't really compete with a fast stand-up comedian, but I also know that my rather slow-track tortoise humour can catch up with the fast-talking hare.

It's already been done by 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'. Google it if you don't already know it, and you will find it was an immensely popular book, radio series & TV series. And it is often quoted on this forum too.

Well, yes, there is perhaps some point in seeking to ground one's own daydreams. I can see in my own experience how that might well have helped me. And it would be hard to deny that life can benefit from the spirit of compromise. I note some comments here have indicated that rehearsal doesn't equate with automatic 'success', but it is bound to take time. And you might argue that it has taken me 6 decades to work that out.

Or worse...

Very true! I hate that so much... although imagining myself swearing at ignorant people can sometimes be satisfying

I think this is where people say "everyone does that" but maybe don't realise quite how often and for how long! I had a boss I couldn't stand once (totally incompetent) and we would frequently come to blows. Every single time I spoke to her I would run the conversation over and over thinking how I could have better responded. Or just imagine swearing at her...

Haha, I hate it when they don't stick to the script - so rude. Also, I often have a conversation and then re-script it in my head (e.g. "I should have said X"). Very annoying.

Marvin the Paranoid Android sounds like a good character for a children's book A lot of people don't really get my humour either. As long as you're amusing yourself, it's all good

Maybe this is where I'm going wrong... I'm not having the right daydreams!

I wish my daydreaming would help me in actual conversation! I've been known to 'rehearse' conversations multiple times and then I go blank in real life. And of course real people never stick to the script!

Many hypnotherapists believe there is a strong case for one day-dreaming future success. It could be seen as auto-suggestion in the form of day-dreams in which one rehearses one's future 'success'. Apparently, the subconscious is quite capable of converting even rudimentary auto-suggestions into positive actions. I can see that it sometimes works for me, since I find myself saying things to people that have been envisaged in day-dreaming, and with some apparent 'success'. Perhaps as much success as one can realistically expect in an eternally compromised world! ;-)

I have considered it, but with my Marvin the Paranoid Android tendency, I would almost certainly bore everyone to death. But that does at least remind me that humour would be very necessary.  Unfortunately, my version of humour would probably also bore the pants off most folks. But it amuses me, and so perhaps that is enough. :-)

Thanks for sharing - it's really interesting to hear another perspective on this. I honestly used to think that I was the only person who daydreamed to that extent. 

I often had my own form of IEs in my fantasy worlds (in some of my daydreams, I'd find myself in horrible situations that I had to get myself out of, often with the help of some friendly IFs). Maybe it was just a way of coping - envisioning myself overcoming challenges that were worse than the ones I was facing day-to-day.

It is all really interesting - we could write a book about this stuff