Do you read like this?

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Whenever I read a book, I imagine the whole story photorealisticy. It's take a lot more time to read than the average person because of this . Everything that I read , I Incorporate n my imagine world that goes along with the book. Also, whenever people say stuff in conversation such as 'cat' or 'cactus' (bad examples I know), I imagine it photorealisticly. Sometimes I'll even imagine and picture the spelling of the world over a black background. Is this an aspie thing or is it common gaming NT's as we'll?

This is also the reason I don't like fiction, I try so hard to imagine everything and get it to all work in my book world but it just takes so long. I was surprised when my mom and other people said they just read and don't even think much about imagining it.

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I kind of wish I did, but I don't.

Yes, I visualise everything I read. I don't necessarily see the details of their face, but I see their location e.g. if they are sat at a table and the room around them. Sometimes the images are based on real locations in my memory or an amalgam of several visual memories.

I visualize stuff when I read, but I have trouble reading none the less because I read too fast.

I'm like this. In my case, it's one of the things I love about reading fiction. I wouldn't say it's as clear and precise as the things I see when I'm thinking on my own, I guess because reading takes up part of my brain energy - but often times I will get an image of a place or character that is so specific that later when the author adds additional information, if it conflicts with the image my brain has created I get disoriented for a bit with that place or character. I have to reset it in my head. But if I like mine better, I just keep it. That's why reading fiction is interactive!

I do this too. I can visualize settings, objects and animals very clearly. One odd exception is that I find it hard to visualize what people look like. I can't seem to create an image of what a character looks like from the description of them in the book. Its like where their faces should be there's just a blank spot in my imagination.

That's just like me too. The only time I can see detail of faces is if I'm reading a book of a film and I visualise the actor who played the part.

I'm the exact same way! Anytime I read a book that has had a movie made about it, I always visualize the faces of the actors.

OH yeah, ha I wonder if anybody can avoid doing that.

I'm going to join the club and say that this sounds like me too. I've read Tolkien's Lord of the Rings many, many times because of the imagery I got from it. The whole reason I saw the movies was so that I could enhance the imagery in my head for the next time I read the book.

Yup, me too. And when I haven't seen the movie, or there isn't one, I often imagine a person, someone I know or an actor, who likes like the character as described in the book, or whose name is similar to that of the character in the book.

Another problem I have is with age. I can't imagine a character getting older, and what's more, I'm 13, so most of the people I know are teenagers. This means that if the protagonist of a book I'm reading is an adult they will often nonetheless be pictured circa 13 years old because the only person I know who fits their visual description is around that age; and yet somehow it does not feel very incongruous simply because my understanding of the book is mainly verbal--often, I use the same person to visually represent two different characters and this never creates a problem, as I always know their names are different.

I do this to some extent, though I wouldn't say photorealistically. I do have to convert whatever is happening on the page into images, or I won't properly grasp it, but I don't imagine a vast amount of detail. For example, I can't usually picture characters' faces either, but it doesn't matter as long as I can picture them doing whatever the character is doing. And like physicsnut42, I'll sometimes "cast" actors or people I know to play them.

Hmm...no. Do I visualise a vague main character and several other things? yes. age? no. The more detailed (without drawn out sentences) work well for that.

I have a tendency to visualize everything that I read, whenever it is fiction or nonfiction. This sometimes even overlaps to seeing imagery with music that I listen to as well.

I imagine whenever I read fiction. It is like a movie, although I can never picture the faces of people.

Yeah, I do this. Maybe not full length movie scene.. but I visualize what I read quite often. I've mostly read business/finance/non-fiction over the years, but I've had some great visualizations from fiction novels. Ender's Game was great for that.

I do it at other times, too. Ie when problem solving I see all the pieces of something coming together to form the solution, or when someone is describing something to me - I can picture it, analyze it in my mind, and then I'm able to ask better questions about it or comment on it's description and they're baffled as to how I made the connections as to what it looks like in real life.

And yes, Visual Thinking is an ASD trait.