Self-Inserts? Are they, really?

I thought about this subject many times while being in work or alone. Is a story labelled as a self-inserts can be called like that? Of course, the author can type out that it is one and many reasons why one wants to right one can vary.

Think about it. The life you live can be boring, tedious, and maybe stressful. So, why not imagine yourself in a fictional world where everything and being is yours to command. No boss is on top of your, orders needed to be filled, exams to passed, and parents on you like hyenas. No one is in control but you and no one can stop the creator from living to his wildest fantasies. But like living beings, all things must come to the end. Waking up to the sound of alarm, snapping out of the daydream that brought forth from your mind, and all other events that make you want to go back to your perfect world.
But when one goes back to their world, like all things, they develop. It helps them straighten their thoughts out, pulling facts from fiction and maybe strengthen the resolve they first place.

On this website, I have many stories that I track (Recently, a total of 11 million words. And that's not counting the others I saved for later) and many are, in my perspective, escapees, seeking refuge from the world. In times when one's life is content, they leave this place and continue on, visiting back once a while.

I don't think many will read this blog. I type out what I think and hopefully it doesn't come out in a jumble of words that no one can understand, or in this case, read. I want to create my own story, my own island of solitude, where no one but a few can disturb. MLP: FiM is a great setting to make my own paradise. But instead of putting myself, I put my other feelings; Being courageous, adventurous, having skills and abilities that are foreign to me...
I blabber so much that I fear I am going off topic. But, my blog, my words. Self-inserts. Yes, stories like that interact with the characters within are tagged to be. But what about the others? One must imagine fear and pain in order to write/type into a sentence. Obtaining happiness and bliss can transfer over the the original character at one point of its life, even when changing the circumstances, it's still the same.

So if some stories are called self-inserts, can it say the same for all?

May life continues with lessons and death with experience.
-Traveler out