Do Aspies like celebrities?

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I couldn't care less about celebrities as a whole. I don't see the point in dissecting their personal lives. Why would I care about whom they're dating, what they're eating, etc.

But....I have one celebrity crush. Stephen Fry. I admire the hell out of him, love his work and have read almost all of his books. He is a hero of mine and I would love to meet him and tell him so.

Hate modern day celebrity culture.

Have a lot of admiration for musicians and authors who's work I love basically because they are able to achieve something I am not.

On Pottermore I heard the except from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban where Stephan Fry read Ron's his horror at Harry's brand new broomstick having to be stripped down to be checked for curses. "STRIP IT DOWN?!" Makes me laugh every time I go to that scene to collect things!

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When I'm in line at the supermarket and see all those tabloids, I roll my eyes and wonder why on earth anyone would care about that stuff.

However... there have been a few celebrities who's persona I've become interested in and actually studied at great length.

There's everyday people I've come across who have interested me just as much, if not more, but i can't find a ton of interview videos etc about them the way i can a celebrity.

So I guess my only interest in a celebrity is in having someone to dissect. But just that person's persona. Anything else about them, wife, kids, friends etc I could care less about.

I don't care about celebrities.
I don't understand why people idolize them. It's just completely pointless to me.
There are some singers and bands whose songs I like, but I like their songs, I don't care about them. I can't be considered a "fan".
I don't care at all about actors or athletes.
I just don't care about celebrities in general.

I don't have a lot of time for celebrities. It seems that a lot of NTs that I know all seem to be able to memorize a lot of facts about celebrities. The other night I was on my laptop, downloading some songs that I liked from Youtube, and my (NT) family were in the same room and kept saying out loud who sang each song I was downloading, and I was like, ''yes, I don't care, I just like the song.'' I nearly said ''yay, woopee, you know something about these celebrities, you want a medal?'' But I knew I couldn't be rude.

I guess you can call Shuttle Astronauts celebrities? But I never gave them celebrity status while I was doing my microgravity thing with them. To me they weren't any different than any other NT that was in the group just because they had glorified jobs. I even got in a slight disagreement with one of them in the states on another microgravity flight I took. I was so fascinated by the sensation I was feeling in my dreams which forced me out of my shell to experience it for real life.

A while back my wife whom IS into celebrities unlike myself happened to friend some lady online who was engaged to a semi-famous cast member of the American drama Criminal Minds. It was so "hush hush" that they were engaged for some reason? I mean who cares, it just seems like everyone involved loved being wrapped up in the drama including my wife. She would even lower her voice when telling me about it alone in our house, like there was all of a sudden paparazzi hiding in our staircase. I don't get it I guess, I mean celebrities are just people too right? They put their pants on one leg at a time don't they? I don't know, maybe its just escapism of some sort, maybe they think that obsessing over a celebrity will make them famous too somehow?

I do want to add though that if you obsess over a celebrity and you're on the spectrum, then it's a little more understandable because hell, we can obsess over toilet brush collections even.

I like certain singers and bands, but only for the music, not for their looks, charms and lives or whatever.
I don't understand the big hype over celebs, like, crushes or obsessions over people being famous for being famous.

Me neither. I never read the celeb parts of papers and I take no interest in the gossip magazines my grandmother loved to read.


I wouldn't care about it per se, but if I had picked up something like that, it would have made me look down on her, because to me porn is something very negative, same as I look down on the woman who married the Norwegian crown prince because she used to be a prostitute and a drug addict. In the case of the porn star I might forget in time because I don't pay attention to what actors are in a movie, I care about what the movie is about, and I rarely recognise actors at all. But the one I mentioned is impossible to forget, she's in the TV news all the time


I've never felt that way about any celeb/artist/musician. There have been a few people IRL I have admired, and I never acted anything close to that with them on the outside, but I think I felt somewhat like they do on the inside at times TBH. Especially in one case...
I do have an eternal crush on Eun-Jin in 'My wife is a gangster' but that's the only celeb crush I've ever had. I take no interest in the actress, I've seen her in other movies, and she only has that impact on me in that particular movie.
In their case I think there is definitely a sort of mass frenzy. They're all ga-ga about those guys and they work each other into a frenzy. You must also take into account that the girls are young and raging with hormones.

There are plenty of authors etc whose work I like, but I don't idolize them for it, or take any interest in them (besides new books etc by them).

I don't like regular celebrities but I like people that are famous in their areas.

For example all the famous pop stars and whatnot I don't really care about.

The kind of people I like is people like Starlight Express cast, anime voice actors, etc... they may not be what everyone else classes as celebrities but they are to me because they are involved with the things I love most in the world.

I don't care for celebrities in general, or remember many of their names/can put a name to a face. There are a few actors/music artists that I can point out or care about, such as Sir Patrick Stewart or Weird Al Yankovic, it isn't on a level of wanting to know their life story, but I enjoy their portrayal of characters/style. Sport players are a complete loss to me.

I do care about some scientists/artists though, and their backgrounds/achievements. Not on an obsessive level, but I find it very interesting and try to imagine how it led them to their works. I can often pick out an origami model and tell who created it/or whose style it resembles, sort of the way an experienced painter can pick out two different painting styles, based on small differences in brush strokes. Studying their backgrounds in addition to technique seems to give a glimpse into their creative process, or possibly how they see the world. It is important for me so that I can develop my own unique style without copycatting or synthesizing from others. I could see why others might do this with celebrities in general that they admire, but I mostly interpret it as a way of making conversation that most people tend to have in common.

In short, if it relates to special interests then usually yes, otherwise no.

I've never been interested in celebrities. I love fiction and fictional characters but the characters stay separate from the authors who write them or actors who play them in my mind. I have no interest in the lives of the singers of songs I like...I just like to listen to particular songs themselves.

Some aspies do like celebrities and some have special interests in them.

Well... there are a lot of better musicians around that aren't as famous...
and there are celebrities who somehow don't really have the talent, but somehow live a wasteful lifestyle...
Paris Hilton is rich only because she's an heir...

But I really love the celebrities who became famous from competitions such as X factor.
They really are good, and the selection is at least much fairer than huge companies.

I also like some celebrity-like people, such as ballet stars and Olympics figure skaters.

That was like the only reason I read those magazines.
So as Harry Potter.

Twilight? Well... I admit I just read the summary on Wikipedia