Moon Star wrote:If I didn't have any real life obligations, I could probably spend most of the rest of my life just making up stories in my head. And mine are also mostly fanfics, specifically self-inserts.
And most of mine are variants or spin-offs of each other as well, so we're really similar, lol! I tend to just choose a random formative-scenario and run with it, (Orphan? Weird person with no friends, or super popular? etc.), which transforms everything else that follows, but events still manage to intersect a lot because the main character is almost the same every time and tends to have the same personality-traits regardless. Huh.
Wow, we really are similar!
I don't do self-inserts though, maybe because I don't think I'm a interesting person, lol. I once did that and suddenly they turned into their own person, idk how, but it just happened XD But hey, I could try that again, hm... Already got an idea XD (Oh no, haha)
Well, if it's mostly the same person but just their outside circumstances changed then maybe it's normal for them to still have the same traits.
Moon Star wrote:I can confirm that if you hold it in long enough, you at some point stop needing to go. Next time the urge comes you have to go though, lol. But I can go super long without needing to pee now, which is super useful during long stretches without a restroom! Not necessarily healthy though, hahah.
Exactly. I learned that during middle school and high school years when all the kids thought it was cool to smoke and they ALL did that in the bathrooms... So I, as an intense anti-smoker, couldn't even stand going there. And even if I did, I would reek of the cigarettes and my teachers would be surprised that I smoke... And I'd always tell them "I don't, I just visited the restroom...". So to avoid getting cancer and unnecessary interrogations from the teachers, I stopped using the bathroom at school. And it stuck with me
everything now seems more important than my bladder. Or thirst/hunger. Where that came from I have no idea. Maybe because I don't like eating in front of people and so during school I'd avoid eating... I don't think it's any disorder. Hopefully.
Akili Li wrote:I wonder if that is more of a mental trick or a physical one that you learn? Maybe I'll try seeing how long I can delay....
Nooo, Akili, don't do that, be the healthy and reasonable one!
Amura wrote:memoriam wrote:Also I think the term is maladaptive day-dreaming
I've looked up the term, and I certainly relate.
I've read an article which almost treats it as a serious mental issue, and it's never felt like one to me though. More of an oddity.
I have in issue with it sometimes. Like I have important stuff to do and instead I pace around the apartment making stuff up and mumbling to myself. It's worrysome at times. And it somehow feels unproductive even in my spare time. But I'm a person with infinite guilt in my brain, so maybe that's why XD
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