Aspie Women and Reading

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I have read in several books about women with asperger syndrome that women with aspergers enjoy reading. It is mostly said that women with asperger syndrome enjoy reading fantasy, and the classics. I know it is true for me because I have always enjoyed reading plenty of books.

Do any of you agree that you enjoy reading as much as I do. I read for fun, and an escape.

What books do you guys enjoy if any?

I enjoy Harry Potter, The Hunger games, Twilight, The Host, Beautiful Creatures. Danielle Steele books, as well as Maeve Binchey. I enjoy Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Jane Eyre, Little Women, and a bunch of other books. I am considered as a bookworm. I have many other favorite stories, but I ma not going to go into depth. If anyone wants to add me on GoodReads username is peridotlion100

i used to read instead of playing outside. my dad thought I was weird. my most recent good read was "the human stain" by philip roth.

Would you say you still enjoy reading today?

yup.

I've always loved to read. Growing up, I would spend nearly the entire summer in my room reading. I still love to read, but I have much less time for it than I would like. I like mystery and thriller type books. Stephen King and Dean Koontz are at the top of my favorites list. I'm reading Odd Apocalypse now.

Yes, I have always been a serious reader. I don't remember when I learned to read, but it was very early. It reinforced my experience as an outsider in the classroom, because in kindergarten I could read and my classmates were still learning phonics, so I was sent out of the classroom to the library, where I got in trouble for reading the books on the fifth grade shelves. I didn't understand why the books were limited to certain ages, when I could read them perfectly well. The first grade teacher I started with gave me punishment work because my reading ability allowed me to finish classwork very quickly, so I was moved to another classroom and teacher. I was put in accelerated reading with the fifth graders, who hated me for being a better reader even though I was six. I preferred books about my special interests: horses, archaeology, and anthropology. Also liked to read the dictionary! Growing up, I devised a system for cataloging all my books.

I have also read that many people with Asperger's, if verbally inclined, are often precocious in their reading abilities.

One form of literature which never took with me were the romantic novels typically written for teen girls. I never could relate to the emotional emphasis in those books. Strangely though, I enjoy classic female writers like Jane Austen and the Brontes, as well as some Gothic classics. Perhaps because with Austen, there is an overriding element of rationalism, and with the work of the Romantics the emotional elements function almost as environments which act upon the narrative.

I have also always enjoyed writing, and wrote a 400-page historical novel as a teenager, though I decided against publishing it. I still write, though, and recently acquired a small private office near the rare book room of the college library (heaven!) for the purpose of writing more seriously.

Recent reads: Oliver Sacks' Musicophilia, David Rothenberg's Why Birds Sing, Karl Vietor's Goethe: the Thinker, and an antique volume on Microscopy (I've just been given two microscopes). So mostly nonfiction; but the other day I was reading the poetry of Emily Bronte; and Sherlock Holmes is an old favorite I have made time to rediscover in recent years.

Lifelong bookworm here. I read an occasional nonfiction (especially biographies), but I enjoy fiction. It's a luxury to just lose yourself in a good book. I'm eyeing up Dan Brown's Inferno for my next read.

I have always loved reading. I went through my fairy tale phase as a little girl, then on to whatever I could grab from the library. I then went through distinct phases: a mythology phase, a horror novels phase, a science fiction phase, a mystery novel phase, an astrology phase, a classic literature phase, a self-help book phase, a philosophy phase, a psychology phase, a science phase, a poetry phase. I have had large libraries of books that I've purged and rebuilt. Even just LOOKING at organized rows of books on shelves makes me tingle.

I read all the time. If there is nothing else in sight I will read the back of a cereal packet.

I like classics - especially Jane Austen, through Oscar Wilde and Daphne du Maurier, to Margaret Atwood, Michael Dibdin, and Dick Francis. I love children's literature too.

Like some of you ladies, I could read really early too, I can't even remember learning, but I was reading books when I started school at 4, when all the other kids were learning their alphabets.

Books have always been my escape.

Yes, I love reading. I mainly read fiction books, I like ones set in the past or ones to do with fashion, parenting etc. I also like horror and crime books.

This is why 'lack of interest in fiction' should not be in the diagnostic criteria (Adult Asperger Assessment).

As a child, I spent almost every waking moment reading. There are photos of me reading in the bath.

I am Harry Potter and Moomin obsessed. I also like the Discworld series and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I go through phases of reading a lot of classic literature. I really liked Middlemarch.

i'm really into william gibson right now but snow crash by neal stephenson was great fun!

I'm a fiction-hater for the most part, and fantasy and classics are the two genres I hate the most. Fantasy I hate because it's repetitive - elves, swords, dragons, quests, blah blah blah (I really liked Eragon despite it having all that stuff though) and classics because they're dry and outdated, not to mention my hang-up about the names (If I could eliminate any names from the face of the planet, Elizabeth, Jane, Thomas and George would have to be high on the list). Don't get me wrong, I WANT to read and enjoy books, there just aren't enough fiction books about Japanese culture out there. I'm attempting to get into Japanese-language literature now, but sadly my Japanese reading level is equivalent to that of a native speaker in 4th grade... so it's difficult to find books that are both easy to read and have more adult subject matter.

I do enjoy stories that deal with non-European culture in general though, while being modern. Reading Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah right now and I have to say I'm liking it!

I've always been a reader. When I was very young (1st, 2nd grade) it was always Nancy Drew, Narnia, that kind of thing. I moved on to the sort of things I like now (Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein) around 9-10 years old, and have been happy with them ever since. Now, I'm reading a lot of the same things. The old Sherlock Holmes stories, sci-fi (The Foundation Series is a favorite), the occasional delving into fantasy, with LOTR.

I've always been a huge bookworm. I don't think I learned to read quite as early as some of you--I think I learned around 4, but it's hard for me to remember exactly when. I have very early memories of not being able to read (asking my parents to read a sign on the street for me and things like that) but I'm not sure exactly when they stop. I was always ahead of the other kids in reading, though not nearly as far ahead as Naturalist was.

At first, I was an enormous fantasy buff; being young at the time, I read a mixture of great and mediocre books, but enjoyed them all. In the last few years, I've moved over to sci-fi, though I still enjoy some fantasy now and again; I've also diversified and started going into a few other genres. I read non-fiction on the side (always something having to do with science or math; I can't stand history).

Yes! I remember being very young, and being told what I "couldn't" read. I think my mother had to write me some special permission slip, to explain that, yes, I could indeed read those books, and to let me. She didn't do much for me in my childhood, but at least she always made sure to let me visit the library. I don't remember learning to read, because I have no memories of a time when I couldn't. It was my escape from a bad, bad place. I lived in books!