Do you like fiction?

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I see this a lot in many of the ""Aspie"" tests and apparently Aspies dont like fiction. Just interested to see what everyone's honest view is on that? Also science fiction i believe can come under that also as it is a form of fictional writing and yes i do like fiction and science fiction.

If it's a good story, I like it. Sometimes I even love it. I Have a feeling that's just another myth. Every person on the spectrum is so different. I don't think it's possible to make a claim that no Aspies like fiction. That just sounds dumb.

I generally like books that give me a sense of what it is (or was) like to live someplace else. For example, I might read a fiction book that takes place in Scotland Ireland to try to get a feeling for what it is like to live in rural Scotland. What do the people do? How do they do it? What are their living conditions? And so on.

Also, the fiction has to make sense. Sometimes you'll have some bozo write a book about someplace that he knows nothing about, get everything wrong, and the plot is unbelievable.

The same applies to movies. There was some really stupid movie about Ireland named Leap Year that I saw a year ago that just made no sense at all. Something about some woman going to Ireland so she can propose to her boyfriend on February 29th because that is a local custom. In reality, of course, that's just baloney.

To make it worse, the airplane lands in Wales because of a major storm preventing air traffic from landing in Dublin. She gets a local boat owner to take her over and drop her off. Assuming that she landed somewhat relatively near instead of traveling around Ireland in rough seas, they moved a region (the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry) from the west coast of Ireland to their east coast. In traveling from there to Dublin, they then encountered a major historical landmark that is completely bogus as well. I'm really not sure if there is anything in the movie that isn't hokum except maybe that Dublin really is in Ireland.

I love fiction! I read far more fiction than nonfiction.

It very much depends on the fiction; I like some fiction but I'm very picky about it.

I read much, much, much more non-fiction than fiction, and my book collection bears that out also.

So I can't choose a voting option because I like more non-fiction than fiction, so I can't say I don't like it but I can't say I like it because I have certain problems with most of it.

I like fiction. I am not hung up on what 'most' people in any group I happen to belong in are doing or not doing.

Also, a lot of what is advertised as "non-fiction" has errors, incomplete information, or flat out lies in it. Advances in science quite frequently tear down or revise previously held 'truths'. Governments release documents that change our understanding of historical events. Cross-disciplinary endeavors allow new understanding and interpretation of 'old' scientific findings and facts. journalists, pundits, and experts are biased, and their work is affected by their biases.

I've had to accept the reality that much of the nonfiction I read now has an element of fiction in it, and this is unavoidable. Fiction that is written as such (and not as a result of error, bias, or incomplete knowledge) provides insights and understanding that come from the experiences and background of other people. It therefore provides tools with which to examine facts and events, and reminders that perspective influences what is perceived and understood.

At one time, I was an avid Stephen King fan. But I have realised something about me over time.....I have no visual imagination at all and it's almost impossible for me to empathise with characters in any type of medium. I am also poor at following story lines and believe this could be an indication of mild to moderate dyslexia.

i dont like fiction in general, i dont read fiction at all anymore, a few scifi series like asimovs are good, but i find all other fiction boring

I really like sci-fi from Philip K. Dick.

Yes I like fiction and I also enjoy nonfiction to. In fact as it pertains to fiction some of the myriad of genres include fantasy, science fiction , Horror, & Suspense Thrillers.

I love fiction, even have a degree in literature. Characters in novels are easier to understand than real people because the author usually tells you what they are thinking or feeling. I also relate to characters from the nineteenth century - especially russians - better than to real contemporary people who seem a bit bland to me. I think I relate to all that painfully obsessive self examination.

I love science fiction and fantasy stuff, so yes, I do like fiction. I like both non-fiction and fiction, both are great.

i read or enjoy very little fiction. I've always enjoyed fact based works.

Sometimes fiction just puzzles me. Here is an example. The last fiction book I can remember reading was "The World According to Garp"

I did enjoy the book. But, overall, I did not read any of the "Pieces" written by the fictional character. It just seemed like it was the same person writing the Pieces as the actual novel. Wacky characters though...probably why I finished it.

I mean, who can't get behind a book that has things like "Trans sex is the best sex" or the adulterous male who was getting a hummer in the car and it got bit off when the cuckold husband accidentally rear ends the car.

Have degrees in Literature, but for writing to float my boat it has to have imagery in it, that is something that creates pictures in the mind. Poetry is best for me for this, though Conrad is good in prose.

Struggled hard with Austen - her novels need a car chase or something.

I like Science-Fiction and murder mysteries.

Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke, and Heinlein for the former; and Christie and Hammet for the latter.

Unfortunately, they're all dead, and with them died the best writing of their genres.

I like a little bit of fiction, mainly TV shows/movies though, hardly ever non-fiction books.
But I treat fiction the same way as everything else - I'm learning something from it. Much fiction has a point it's trying to make, such as the dynamics of relationships or an archetypal heroes journey etc. Though by no means factual to real life, media does nonetheless influence the way people behave and thus they probably conform to what they see much more than they know. You can also be exposed to new ideas and ways of thinking through fiction, the way I view the learning element.
That said though I vastly prefer nonfiction. I'm comfortable with truth. Information about something that is actually going on (or did go on) I find much more interesting than made up things.