I once read that people on the spectrum tend to spend much time getting lost in their thoughts—I do—and I'm wondering: Does anyone else here spend much time meditating which makes some people think you're doing nothing?
I'm very often lost in my thoughts and have often had to put up with some people criticizing me for "just sitting there doing nothing" when I "could be doing something productive" and it's always annoyed me to no end. Meditating isn't "doing nothing."
There have been times where people have told me I should be productive when there wasn't even work to be done. Why should one be productive for the sake of being productive? Is spending time thinking about things a taboo thing to many people? I don't get it . . .
I wouldn't go as far as "meditiating" even... just relaxing, even if it means you're playing a game, reading a book, or watching a movie... it's always being perceived as being "non-productive". If I'm not doing anything productive it doesn't mean that I'm doing nothing as in "mentally flatlined".
The concept of doing something just for the sake of doing something is incomprehensible to me as well.