living in their own world

Kathryn was trying to explain to me what its like to be her. she says she gets lost in a fantasy world inside her head, and she finds it difficult to separate that world from a reality. she believes this fantasy world is real, I am unsure if she is still Kathryn" in this world or morphs into different beings. I do catch glimpses of her world. like the fact her ideal "man" her "dream date" is actually optimus prime, a transforming lorry/robot, I think she sees him as a protector something many in her real life have failed to live up to. she likes to dress up in Japanese amine costumes, apparently its called colsplay! and when her and Ainsley are in full flow they talk a language, at 100 miles an hour, that I cannot understand. its like their own shared world. Although Ainsley also likes fantasy, and can get lost in it, he does believe its a reality like Kathryn does. he spends hours reading "fan Fiction", a form of story online where fans of anime write their own stories. he also enjoys playing games like "world of warcraft" and "assassins creed", where he can lead the characters through quests and challenges. In this online world Ainsley is happy to interact with other players, again unlike Kathryn, who although plays "world of warcraft" with Ainsley really struggles to even interact with other online characters. so I have concluded they both need their fantasy worlds for different reasons, and they can both get completely absorbed into these worlds to the exclusion of all else. Kathryn because it is her whole life and Ainsley because it provides a social interaction he so longs for but cannot deal with in real life.