Is this Maladaptive daydreaming??

I'm really sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong category but I'm new here and I dont know how things work. I signed up here to ask this question cause I don't know where else to turn at the moment.

Today i was reading about maladaptive daydreaming and it sounds somewhat similar to what I do, but also significantly different. But first, a littl backstory: I'm a 21 year old man and I was severely emotionally abused from ages 11+ and it basically broke me down completely to the point where I have basically no self esteem, etc.
Anyway, I have a compulsive tendency to construct elaborate fantasy worlds in my head, and make up fictional personas for myself to go along with them, and it's definitely some kind of coping mechanism I've subconsciously developed over these years of abuse .
But where it diverges from what seems to be the "typical" case of maladaptive daydreaming is the fact that I have a tendency to "overlay" them into my everyday life... I use them to "augment" reality instead of escape from it, if that makes any sense.
At the same time, I never lose touch with "real" reality, and these fantasies exist purely in my head and don't affect my behavior.
The most accurate comparison I can make is to a child playing pretend, with the difference being that I never "act it out" and instead it exists purely in my imagination. It's like "half-pretending" in that I'm never fully pretending, but it's always going on in the back of my mind.
For example, I could be walking down the street in my hometown but I'll be pretending I'm walking down the street somewhere else, like Russia or something, and that I'm some fictional character I made up. And I'll spend a lot of time imagining what my surroundings would look like, usually inspired by my actual surroundings. But i never really "detach" from reality and I automatically "snap out of it" the minute I have to interact with someone or pay attention to something in the real world.
I guess the best way I could describe it is that when I'm not doing anything that requires much attention, my mind wanders into this kind of "pretend play" mode. I don't really show any outward signs of it or behavioral changes so I'm sure my friends and family would be shocked to learn how often I'm pretending I'm in like medieval times, or some sort of a post-apocalyptic future society.
While it doesn't really impair my functioning in the real world, it does cause me a lot of distress cause I spend copious amounts of time coming up with these fictional worlds and agonizing over every tiny detail of the backstory, etc. it's really kind of an extreme annoyance to me cause I can never really be satisfied with these worlds i create so it becomes kind of like a "thought loop" where I can't stop coming up with and changing little details.
I don't know what you would call this, but I know it's not normal and I wish I could stop doing that and I could enjoy life without constantly half-pretending I'm somewhere else.

I guess my question is, does this sound like a form of maladaptive daydreaming?. I also really wanna know if what I said makes sense to anyone cause I can't find anything exactly like it on the internet.

It sounds harmless to me, but if it's causing you some distress, I would suggest talking to a therapist about your childhood and learn some new coping skills. Also, have you tried journaling or writing stories about your fantasies? I'm not familiar with maladaptive daydreaming but I'm not an expert on mental health issues, either. I was diagnosed bipolar with psychotic features but am sometimes labeled schizoaffective. I guess I have some "delusional thinking" and while medication helps me...well I'm rambling too much. If you want to private message me, feel free.

I think that "dissociation" is the broad term for the different ways people mentally distance themselves from the world because the world is too anxiety-producing, unsafe, sad, or what have you. I used to think dissociating meant kind of blanking out, staring into space and not being mentally present, but I've read that there are other ways this can happen. One of them is to obsessively think about intellectual topics, for instance. I do this myself a bit, I kind of write essays in my head at times and I have trouble putting it aside until it's perfected. What you tend to do sounds very imaginative, and probably has been adaptive in some ways if it's distanced you from the world, but maybe it's become distressing in some other ways. A lot of defense mechanisms are like that-- they do work to an extent, and they also hold us back to an extent.

I'm no expert on mental health either, but to me this sounds like a dissociative coping mechanism and I don't think it means you're "crazy," I think it's just a technique you've developed to make life more bearable in the face of abuse.

Emotional abuse can be as harmful as physical and even sexual abuse according some research. Humans are very psychological animals and sustained emotional harm is devastating. If you're able to start "processing" what happened -- whether by self-help or therapy or through friends or writing -- I would imagine this need to pretend would start to lessen. If it's bothering you, I would try to find a therapist maybe.

I'm seconding mostlylurking's comments on emotional abuse. I was subjected to years of emotional abuse in a marriage. I don't think I could process any of this without the help of a therapist. You could also check your local area for a therapy group for abuse survivors. Being able to talk about this stuff with non-judgmental people is very useful.

Have you considered writing some of your inner worlds down? You may be the next great storyteller.

Yes this maladaptive daydreaming it usually common for those who had been abuse. It pretty harmless. Unless it start taking control over your life.

I do this myself because of my loneliness and it had cause me to be label as crazy because I had talk to myself out loud when I was daydreaming.