Aspies don't enjoy fiction?

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I can't get through fiction if I try to read it. I can listen to audio books though. I don't think there's a single book of fiction in my entire collection. No wait....nope, just checked - not a single one. Good.

I used to read tons of fiction when younger. Nowadays It's mainly books focused around my interests.

I don't understand other people well enough to read fiction. I can and do read/follow children's fiction, but no thanks to adult fiction.

I read some fiction but I'm more interested in non-fiction.

I know some people who like fiction, but only if it's grounded in reality. I'm much more of a fantasy fan myself.

Tolkien (an aloof person himself if you've ever seen a rare video of him) had some very interesting ideas on fiction and fantasy and their value to people, which I personally agree with. The gist of it is that we should trust our imaginations to reveal truth. It's a bit more detailed than I feel like writing about, but it's worth researching if you're interested. Most it comes from his essay called "On Fairy Stories."

I both read and write fiction. I'm drawn to sci fi and historical dramas mostly with a smatering of mystery novels.

I love fiction, mainly classics.

I've always enjoyed fiction since I was very little.
I like the concept of a story:

-Live storytelling

-Animated Cartoons

-Puppet theatre

-Novels (animal, fantasy and nature themed)

-Parody and situation comedy

-Poetry

-Song

-Film


Anything with whacky or outlandish humour I enjoy.


If it gets too close to real life "soap operas" it gets confusing, then I'm not that keen.

I would agree with the former. I have immense difficulty in immersing myself in most fantasy worlds, whether in books or on screen. I enjoy ones that 'bend the rules' a little, but they should still be fundamentally set in the real world.

It's also interesting you should mention Tolkien. The only aspect of Middle Earth I have ever been able to really take interest in is the Shire and hobbits, whose lives are so generally prosaic that if one forgets they are other-than-human, Shire lore can be treated virtually as historical fiction.

Hobbits are indeed fascinating. They're lively, a bit odd and full of character. They socialize, but also spend a lot of quiet time alone. They're good, honest folk who get done what they need to get done to be happy.

I love fiction and fantasy themes...

When it comes to reading, that's tough though, since I'm just now trying to get into reading. I've had to make do with video game, movie, and music's relationship with fiction/fantasy.

So I guess I should ask... what's a good book to start with here? ^^ I like most themes regarding fiction. I sort of like the medieval-style fiction, dragons and such. But I think Lord of the Rings would be too heavy for me at the moment.

Where do you get the idea that Aspies don't like fiction. I will bet money many Aspies love science fiction.

ruveyn

I'm not officially diagnosed, but I love fiction.

I like fiction, but I think it is the type of fiction liked that is interesting to note. Like, I liked very predictable stories like Enid Blyton when i was younger, and now I really love Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), amongst other authors who have very predictable storylines. They don't really do things you don't expect. I also like fiction that is often described as atypical/unusual. I used to just pick up a book of my sisters and read it in one- she was younger than me, and they were like babysitters club or jaqueline wilson, and I wasn't even interested in the stories, I just wanted to finish them because I started them and I wanted to know how it finished.

Oh, and one thing I noticed recently, after talking to my friend about childhood TV shows that we each watched, was that she, a normal person, liked cartoons of people and people shows, often beyond her age range, where I liked stop animation or puppet things, often below my age group (and also obsessed with them), like Sooty and Sweep etc. Does anyone else notice no, what they liked as kids to be sort of different to what their peers did?

Most of the wall space of my flat is covered in fiction... I'm considering buying a 10th bookcase.

I do have the common AS preference for SF/fantasy. But in my late teens to 20s, I read mainly realistic fiction, and heavyweight stuff at that. One thing that eventually put me off it was realising that... look, authors can be very persuasive in putting forwards a worldview. And that worldview may well be utterly divorced from reality, and even destructive in some way. Somehow, I find it easier to flag this issue up to myself when the story's set on Proxima Centauri b than when it's set in Milton Keynes.