Could you live without reading?

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Sometimes I wonder whether I could. When I wake up in the morning, I have to read something. I get this kind of itchy feeling in my mind, and often I find that I am reading something or looking at something without realising I am doing it. When I was a child my parents used to keep coming into my room to try and get me to go to sleep when I wouldn't put my books away.

I wonder if NTs feel this way, this need to read all the time. Its the first thing I do when I am stressed (though I also comfort eat a lot).

Also, in the future... say 10 years or so, do you think there will be internet addiction rehab programs? I think there will be.

There already are internet addiction treatments... it's just not that common yet.

And yea, I HAVE to read. Hence why 90% of my page log is something like fanfiction.net or other related sites.

No,I'm always reading. I can't take breakfast without reading a newspaper,I go to bookshops
in my lunch hour and read another newspaper on my train journey home. I also like to
read the internet and I like to relax by ... reading a book !

No. My life would be impoverished without the knowledge of people I derive from books.

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I might live, but others may have to be sacrificed.

As a child, I would read under the covers at night until my parents came in and punished me. Warnings did nothing - they had to actually stop me. In the mornings, they were forced to make a rule that I could not begin reading until 6:00 AM. (So every morning I started to read at 5:00, and whenever caught claimed that on my digital clock, the 5 looked like a 6 so I had mistaken it.)
I still read - usually more than one book at a time, or pausing one to read another, with a whole list of books waiting to be read when I finish whatever one is my priority at the time. They know me by name at the public and university libraries (the librarian at the latter always knows which books are mine, because it's always the ones that have been ordered in).
Not only books, though - I can't stop my eyes reading when there are words around. While eating, resting, watching a movie - words in newspapers, on the computer, as parts of pictures, on packages, anything.

Well, my husband says I read like other people breathe. I can't not read. I am always doing it. Couldn't live without it.

Maybe. I draw a lot, so if I were given a sketch pad and a pen I would be quite happy.

But if you took away my ability to interpret small, subtle geometric changes in symbols and markings... I'd die!

Never! Might as well take away my ability to breathe, it's that essential!

If Morgan Freeman be around to personally narrate everything that Omar would otherwise be readin'....then yes.

You mean, like, living a life of total illiteracy? Probably not. There's too much an illiterate person can't do on his own.

But I don't like reading novels or fiction. Most of the "reading" I do is on internet boards and articles.

I love to read! I couldn't live without reading. Books and cats are two things I couldn't live without!

I read. But, I never read for fun.

No. I have to read. I would die if I had dyslexia and couldn't read stuff on the Internet and books. I think about the Internet 24 hours a day and have Internet Addiction Disorder. I have even had dreams where I was using the Internet and reading news stories. I am not joking about this, I am serious. How much more exciting can a dream get? Reading and writing are one of my favorite things to do besides art. For books I always read non fiction because for some odd reason I just have no imagination outside of my artwork. I like things based on fact. I read about current events and psychology. I'm nuts so I have to have that interest (or obsession).

Same here... my eyes have a mind of their own.

And you are not nuts, Firebird, a lot of people have interests in current events and psychology.

I read a lot of fiction and still do, as well as non-fiction on topics of interest. I think reading fiction is sort of a substitute for the social life I always wanted to have but couldnt make happen.

No, I could not.