Do Aspies like celebrities?

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I feel much the same way. I don't follow celebrities whatsoever.

I personally don't really care about most celebrities, but at times, I have found a few of them to be interesting based on the quality of their work (i.e. I find X pretty hilarious, and I think Y is a good actor). Do I care about their personal lives or what they do outside their work? Not really.

I don't think this is necessarily what all people on the spectrum think, though. One person I know with AS worships a few very specific celebrities and knows practically everything about them.

I've never been terribly interested in celebrity culture, for the sole reason that, self-centered though it may sound, I've never been terribly interested in learning about other people. If they are people I care about, or people I can relate to or who have had similar experiences to mine, I'm happy to learn more about them, but studying strangers for the sake of it has never really appealed to me. Even in the middle of my Star Trek obsession, I have always been more interested in learning and retaining the facts pertaining to the show, as opposed to my friend who prefers studying the lives of the actors who play the characters. That's fine, it's just not something I'm interested in doing.

I'm sure at least some do...........I don't....I hate celebrity gossip. I love fiction and fictional characters but I don't like knowing about the real people behind them.

As a general rule, I could care less about celebrities. The only ones I find interesting are the ones who actually do something of merit. The things that most people find interesting like their sex lives, pregnancies, dating lives, etc. are all quite irrelevant to me. If I want to know the sordid details of someone's life, I will ask someone I know about theirs. At least in that case it will have a chance at actually impacting my life. When some hot, young actress whose new fake boobs are all over the tabloids suddenly takes an interest in me, well then I will be interested in a celebrity's sex life. Until then, no. I could care less.

I find that modern day media is polluted with all this pointless celebrity stuff. I remember an article a while back about some royal that lost their hat, that is what is considered news here Reality shows like Jersey some up why I hate this celebrity culture. Untalented, uninteresting, dumb, tacky, and shallow people being paraded on TV and having people actually watch and love them, what has this world of mine become? Celebrities are just regular people like you or I, except with a higher ranking in society, they are not super human.

I think for anyone that looks up to or idolizes a celebrity, it all points back to envy. They either want their talent, want their social status, or want their appearance. Put it this way, if you were hit by a bus tomorrow, would this celebrity know about it or even care if they did? They don't know you, you are merrily an insignificant stranger to these people. I do admire the talents of a small number of these so called celebrities. But they are not part of my life, therefore mean nothing to me on a personal level.

Some celebrities are my special interests/obsessions.

I find the entire idea of celebrity worship intellectually offensive. I don't care at all what people do in their own time. I "like" certain celebrities(Anne Hathaway fro example), but I don't care what she does away from her work on screen. At all. If this has anything to do with AS I don't know, but I think it's more due to the general refusal among Aspies to latch onto things because they're popular.

I have no interest in celebrities, and I am unsure why so many people are interested in them. They are just people, why do others need to know all about their private lives?

Like Ames76 said, some celebrities for me too became / become special interests. It's never all celebrities, or celebrity culture, but literally one or two celebrities that I want to know every detail about. It seems to just *happen* to me, not of choice or by some kind of decision, but something sort of clicks and this person I never met before becomes a special interest. It's almost never romantic - where I picture kissing or dating the celebrity. It's more like I use him or her as a role model - especially a social role model. I'll admit it here - sometimes I've been known to out and out mimic a celebrity special interest. Maybe I do it to fit in - and all celebrities have won a popularity contest with the world. I'm exactly not sure why I do it honestly. I've also mimicked and copied behaviors and speech and interests (their music tastes, etc.) of regular non-celebrity people who I suddenly took an interest in.

I'm a female aspie, I wonder if other female aspies experience similar things to this. I guess not the OP so much, but I would say that Mozart and Dostoyevsky are/were celebrities! I mean, they are so famous, after all, and gifted/talented and usually *interesting* kinds of people, no matter how far back you go in time.

I care!

There are celebrities I like, both NT and those who may or may not be on the spectrum. However I don't read a lot of entertainment news these days, just the ones on interesting shows and music and maybe behind the scenes stories.

Among the celebrities I do follow, it happens that I have a soft spot for those who might be on the spectrum.

Mostly musicians I am into,

but I'm weird... my favorite celebrities aren't consider celebrities in my country.

Ayumi Hamasaki, Andrea (Sahara), Chitose Hajime

I have no care for most of them because they're overrated I have more interest for inventors in the past rather than people that sing or kick a ball around on some grass. People that did something useful to achieve fame far after they died and were never credited while alive.

Celebrity culture is ret*d. There are people who I admire, and some of them are pretty famous, but they are nothing like Paris Hilton or anything, a celebrity for being a celebrity.