Aspies don't enjoy fiction?

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I read mostly non-fiction when I was younger, but I have enjoyed reading fiction at times.

I can enjoy fiction, but I haven't sought to read a fiction book in about 15 years, so I guess my enjoyment was not very high overall.

Growing up, I focused mainly on non-fiction books about subjects I liked, or just read the newspaper to keep up on current events. When I reached my mid-20s, I became interested in reading every book that John Steinbeck wrote after I really enjoyed his novel Tortilla Flat. I continued to read and enjoy his books for several years, but only about two or three each year (which is virtually nothing to any serious fiction reader).

By my early 30s, I had read about half of all of Steinbeck's novels and short-stories, but about halfway through reading his 1936 novel, In Dubious Battle, I put it down after realizing that this story was the most frustratingly boring thing I'd ever encountered, and that it was time to try reading something else by any other author. I then read and loved a few fiction books like Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Orwell's Animal Farm, but after a year or two, I just decided to stop pursuing new fiction books since doing so just didn't seem interesting to me anymore.

I prefer non-fiction, but I will read fiction if it centers around a subject I'm interested in.

I like the Lillian Jackson Braun Cat Who...mysteries because I love cats, especially Siamese.

I like fiction but typically will mostly seek out non-fiction.

I also tend to be averse to physical books. Most of my reading is research online and also my participation in various forums.

As a kid Star Wars was definitely a special interest. I'm still upset that Han Solo in the recent film wasn't raised by space gypsies like I read in one of those books with pictures and descriptions. I loved reading those kinds of things as a child.

I like non-fiction----especially biographies and correspondences.

I enjoy reading case studies---rather than theoretical psychological stuff.

Fiction was, definitely, an acquired taste in me----though, once I tried it, I found that I liked it pretty well.

There are plenty of aspies

Some like, dislike, or neither




Fiction and nonfiction is fine with me

I’ve always preferred fiction.

I like fiction quite a bit. But if it's too far fetched I probably won't enjoy it.
One book that I didn't finish spent the first 200-300 pages explaining some basic mechanism that the entire novel hinged on. Couldn't deal with it and gave up.

Sometimes non fiction makes me want to go do whatever the book is about. It's not fun to read about airplanes, I want to go build one and fly it.

I love fiction and making up fictional characters or worlds in my head.

Anybody investigate the genre of 'Metafiction' i.e., in books, in movies?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafiction

I like classic children's fiction. Adult fiction, not as much.

I'm an outsider or faux-naiive artist, so I've created and drawn plenty of my own fictional characters and stories.

I have always far preferred fiction to non-fiction.

I like fiction if it based upon a subject that I'm interested in. The same goes for non-fiction.

I remember learning about what 'fiction' meant when I was a kid. I asked well 'why would anybody make up a story that was not true'... it just didn't make sense to me. But as it turns out, I've read hundreds of novels and love reading stories so much. The last book I read was "When the Crawdad Sings" and thought it was great.