Do I have maladaptive daydreaming?

I’m a 15 year old girl. So I daydream constantly. Literally every second of the day I’m daydreaming. I keep myself awake at night because of my daydreaming. There are these two characters that I’m so in love with that I created a whole world for them with new characters that I made up and everything. I made up personalities for all of them and I spend a lot of my time developing them. I put them in every single situation I’m in when I’m daydreaming about them. I make up situations for them in my head. I always repeat these situations in my head. I also talk to myself (or them, you could say) when I’m alone. I’d much rather be alone to daydream than be with other people. Everything triggers my daydreams: music, TV, books, people, and every single situation I’m in.

Because I daydream constantly, I wanted to figure out if I have some sort of disorder, and I stumbled upon Maladaptive Daydreaming, so I was wondering if I have it. I hardly tell anyone else of my constant daydreaming because I’m afraid they’ll think I’m crazy or something. Like I said, I love to be alone so I can daydream about them. My dad (who doesn’t know about the full extent of my daydreaming) said I’m just super introverted and that’s why I like to be alone, but could it be because I’m introverted and have Maladaptive Daydreaming? He said that most introverts tend to daydream a lot, and people like Isaac Newton and Socrates daydreamed so much but they were geniuses. He also says that my daydreaming is good for creativity, since I love to draw and write.

I know that these characters I’m in love with aren’t real. I know that everything I do with them isn’t real. I get good grades in school, and I do have friends and I’m close with my family. However, I do go to a counselor because some of my friends in school don’t treat me right, and plus I’m just socially awkward and I’m a bit afraid to talk to people. Could this be the cause of my excessive daydreaming? I told my counselor about it and she told me the reason why people may have this disorder is because either they are afraid of real life or they are bored with their life, and I think both of those reasons are true for me.

Apparently I do make facial expressions when I’m daydreaming because my mom tends to notice that I have a smile on my face a lot when we’re not talking. I do do physical movements along with my daydreaming: when I’m around people I bounce my legs on a chair or something, and when I’m alone in the basement I spin around on the spinny chair while daydreaming. I do laugh and cry when I’m daydreaming, depending on the situation. I also write stories about my daydreams and I draw pictures of them too.

So do you think I have Maladaptive Daydreaming? If I do, I don’t want to stop though. My daydreams and these characters make me happy, and I feel like they’re sort of a stress reliever for me. Is this a problem, and do I have this disorder or am I just crazy?