I agree with you. I may or may not be on the spectrum but I do have other features like OCD and ADHD. When I was 14 I was extremely attached to fictional charac

I agree with you. I may or may not be on the spectrum but I do have other features like OCD and ADHD. When I was 14 I was extremely attached to fictional characters and movie characters - to the point of spending entire days imagining the world with them and living in that imaginary world. I can see how someone can get absorbed into that world even more and more - and we're talking about today's world where there are massively many more options and risk factors from social media, AI to video games etc. This is also exactly why parental intervention is the key to make sure kids swerve away from these meaningless things as much as possible, so that they spend time with the real-world and real people instead.