Aspies don't enjoy fiction?

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i'd have to say the same thing. I've been trying to read more lately....and I do read more now than I have in awhile...but a lot of it is stuff about birds or other various animals. occassional comic book....which are great and always kick me in the butt to read more...i guess because the art draws me in more? or something? i love The Sandman in particular...I have one waiting for me to savor on my bedside table right now...

short-fiction anthologies have done me a world of good as well....since the stories are short and all..

i also love to write short stories....and that's another thing they say about AS....is that apparently you can't "tell a story" .....?? honestly i think i'm a damn good story-teller..

some of the stuff they say about AS is very generalized....someone said that already...so.....i concur.

When I read novels, I always read fiction novels. The only times I have ever read non-fiction novels was when I was required to for English class.

I've spent 8 years without reading any fiction books.

Most of the stuff I read is fiction. (Sort of a given considering that my two main authors are Stephen King and Dean Koontz.).

i actually live for fiction. (i'm very NLD. in text book terms, i suppose we're more likely to be drawn to it than "straight-up" aspies. but who knows what that distinction really means in real-life terms.) i can get really obsessed with the work of one author or another.

if aspies didn't like fiction--who would be watching Edward Scissorhands, i wonder? (among other things.) not that it isn't wonderful in and of itself, but really--it's an aspie autobiography (IMO.)

I love fiction! I find it easier to learn things from fiction rather than nonfiction in some cases. Historical fiction, for example. I've never been one to remember dates and numbers. I also do not remember character names. Nonfiction has a lot of names and numbers-- in fiction you can skip over these words and numbers and still come away with something. Also mystery books-- you can learn a lot about forensics from them and learn to think "outside the box".

I have a hard time reading fantasy or sci fi, though. You have to imagine too much in these.

i read fiction and non-fiction. I tend to read writers in blocks of works - so - if i read Dostoyevsky or re-read him - i will systematically move through his novels. I do this with most fiction writers from rohintion Mistry through to Tolstoy or Vikram Seth or Margaret Attwood. However, off medication i read NO fiction, and cannot read anything but special interest stuff. the medication seems to give me more flexibility in thinkng and comprehension.

I also read a great deal of factual, special interest related stuff. I do this all the time.
I really enjoy learning and I very much enjoy creating AND the creativity of others.

I will always choose a book over a social interaction. And invariably, in social interaction gatherings comprising a few or more people, I am the woman with the magazine or newspaper or the woman who asks to go and turn the tv on.....

Well firstly I used t love reading but lately I have hit a wall with it generally with fiction when I child I read all non fiction nofiction whatsoever at 15 I braved fiction now 21 I left it I have read good fiction like King but tend to end up picking upcrap and it bores me so no offically I amboycotting fiction lol its mostly the sam and cliche

I enjoy fiction, but I find it takes a great deal of effort for me to start reading a novel. I have a tendency to read fiction by picturing it (i.e. visually see everything that is happening in the book).There's about 10 pages or so at the beginning of every book where I don't have enough information to see anything, so I feel really confused until the picture "comes in" at some point.

With non-fiction, I have no trouble visualizing immediately.

With non-fiction I have to be really, really interested in the subject or else I lose focus. With fiction, It's like a movie in my head and I have a hard time putting it down. I've actually learned a lot from reading fiction and reading about what different people do and why they do it. I'm a word nerd and I love how a few simple words can evoke a environment for me. I'll give you an example. The book Lizard Cage is written by Karen Connelly who is married to a Burmese freedom fighter. The novel is about a man put in solitary confinement for life for writing a protest song. It's a situation where being caught with a ballpoint pen could mean your execution. He had studied Buddhism and uses it to survive. It was a great read and I learned a lot about a situation I didn't before. The particular person may not have existed but the novel is still truthful because it describes an actual reality. I enjoy reading authors from other cultures than my own. It helps me appreciate the diversity of planet Earth. I like historical fiction too. There is a series of books written as if they were by Josephine (of Napolean and Josephine). I learned a lot about the French Revolution because the author researched the subject thoroughly. it's just a mistake to think you can't learn anything from fiction. Some people don't jive with it and that's OK. I love encyclopedia type books too.

I like fiction and nonfiction equally. I used to read mostly fiction as a child. I often enjoy strange stories that are rather ambiguous, even though I dislike ambiguity in my regular life.

I love fiction, especially fantasy. I write a bit of my own, when I can motivate myself to.

I used to read books when i was a kid a lot of books it was an escape for me.

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I also enjoy some good medical studies, popular science, religious texts and history, and other things related to whatever special interest has my attention at any given time.

I agree. I have enjoyed science fiction since my mother introduced me to it when I was about 8 years old. She used to read -Amazing Stories- and -Fantastic Stories- (both pulp fiction magazines) regularly and I read them too.

ruveyn

I read fiction though I'm ADHD and autistic, so I have to focus on it with effort to keep reading.