Pretty frequently my imagination will wander and then I'll start thinking of a game or show that I like and I'll imagine new story plot points and stuff. It's very visual and vivid to the point where I complete forget I exist in real life. While I'm doing this, without thinking, I start jumping, flapping my hands, and repeated flopping myself onto furniture. I only get brought back into reality because I eventually exhaust myself by jumping around too much.

I've always hid this behavior, but I've been caught a few times and whoever catches me is always like "What are you even doing? Are you okay?" So I feel like what I do is probably really weird to most people. I am Autistic, but idk if it's because of that or if I'm just weird cause I haven't heard of anyone else doing it. I'm curious if anyone else does this or something similar.

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[–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago

Your experience seems pretty similar to mine. There's been times where I'm so into it it's hard to tell if I just spoke something I was thinking out loud, but I don't think I actually have. Probs is some sort of daydreaming, but I don't want to call it maladaptive cause I enjoy it so much.

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