Does anyone read fiction books?

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I love fantasy novels!

Well, I'm no expert, but I agree with you It seems unrealistic, one of those self-fulfilling prophecies - if autistics can't be feminine, no wonder they can't find any feminine autistics.

I do read some on occasion. I love fiction that is set in the American Midwest. Some of my favorite authors include Marilynne Robinson, Garrison Keillor, Kent Haruf and Jane Smiley.

I have very very VERY poor reading comprehension.

I have read a few fiction books, such as goosebumps, milkweed, Judy moody, speak, the shining, and the lovely bones but I couldn't understand them. It's like I could read every individual word or sentence but I couldn't get a story out of it.

People have read fiction to me and I liked it, charlottes web, the outsiders, staying fat for Sarah burns, a Christmas carol

The ONLY book I could read and understand that had no pictures was Perks Of Being a wallflower and it caused severe and ongoing panic attacks for some reason.

I prefer picture books, like captain underpants lol.

Aside from technical literature I read for work, everything else I read is fiction. Whether it was Jules Verne, Erich Maria Remarque, or J. R. R. Tolkien I read in pre-teens and early teens, or William Gibson and Philip K. Dick I read now, it's all fiction.

I took a 10 year hiatus from reading aside from technical and academic literature and recently started reading again for fun. I wanted to exhaustively explore one genre or theme so I would be well versed in it. I picked cyberpunk.

Well some people apparently didn't get the memo that there couldn't be feminine autistics, and others just pretended the feminine traits in some didn't exist, and no some feminine autistics have been found.

I read lots of fiction books. I especially like legal or psychological thrillers. I just discovered an author, Keith Ablow, who is a forensic psychiatrist. So now I'm reading "Compulsion" which is about a murder of a young infant. I love John Grisham, Lisa Scotoline, and others. I also love fantasy books. I not only read fiction but I write it as well. Ive written a novel, "Snow Tiger" which is a Japanese historical, set in the late 19th century. It contains a bit of fantasy. Shameless plug: it's available on Amazon.com

I can relate, as that is how textbooks often are for me. You might like Timmy Failure by Stephan Pastis. It doesn't have all that much text and has pictures. I think it's a very funny series.

Is this something for you? http://userdisk.webry.biglobe.ne.jp/004 ... 209465.jpg

It's from "Miss Remarkable and her Career" by Joanna Rubin Dranger. It's perhaps for slightly older people, but the fortunate thing in life is that one does become older

She's got a couple of more books that I think are not translated to English yet, but they are very funny, about Miss Remarkable/Miss Scaredy Pants (they are the same neurotic person).

One of my all time favorites!!

I enjoy reading fiction. I'll read almost anything--realistic fiction, humour, science fiction, fantasy, you name it.

I read fiction as well as non-fiction. My favourite novel writers include Arthur Conan-Doyle, John Grisham and Steig Larsson. I read a bit of factual history books as well.

Some more thoughts on this topic are in this thread:

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LOL! Good one!

Yes, that's a classic of circular 'reasoning'

Oh, I agree entirely! Had to suffer Austen twice at school (O and A level) and I'd rather poke my own eyes out with a spoon than read her again.

I prefer immersive fiction that gives me a world I can wander around in: Tolkien's Middle Earth, Hope's Ruritania, Harrison's Viriconium, Martin's Westeros (and adjacent continents), Hardy's Wessex, Hugo's Paris. I'm better at understanding and 'reading' people on paper (as a historian, too, in non-fiction). You know what you're dealing with with written material, and can learn to "read between the lines" without all the distracting face-to-face stuff. And I think one of my all-time favourite Victor Hugo tragic heroes/anti-heroes is about as Aspie as it gets... Who needs 'Mr Darcy' when you could have Claude, who has his own laboratory....?! !! !