why can't I read or process information in the way NTs dO?

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I have so much trouble reading and processing information yet I wrote a book? This is very strange, I don't know if this is a common aspie trait but I feel like i'm not actually taking in info when I read it, and it leaves me very unaffected by a lot of important literature and quotes in this world. It's like I'll read a post by a big philosopher, and then just not feel anything from it or be blown away by it in the way NT's do. It's not cause i cant feel things, I DO feel things - I have tons of emotions and I feel everything. I am highly empathetic, it's just. I don't know. I can't understand how I wrote a book, hustled to get it published and it ended up getting purchased when it's all from fragmented notes, and when I look at them it's like "Huh? What does that even mean? Who wrote that?" I can't even read my own writing yet people tell me I'm a good writer. It's absolutely exhausting.

We are not good at taken in big volumes of information in one go.

However we can retain a lot of information hence quite a few people on the spectrum are really good at writing.

I find I am the same with reading.

Hope that helps.

I was diagnosed in March last year.

What I have learned since is to try and stop over thinking things.

You can write and people consider it good.

I come here to meet people I have gotten support here and I try to offer support.

Nit picking at our own autism too much is not good.

You are not good at taken in information when you read nor am I.

Honestly my best advice is try not to worry about it I don't.

Um, because you're not an NT. If I knew, then I'd basically be NT.

Anyway, I often have the same problem; whenever i read something that doesn't interest me, I have a really hard time actually absorbing the information, and understanding the meaning behind it. I had this problem with my high school textbooks, and I also have this problem with the learner's license manuals. If I didn't have this problem, I'd be done high school and have a drivers license by now.

I don't really enjoy reading books. I can't really gain much information and process it while reading paper books unless the sentences are brief and to the point, but I can read books on digital devices if they're in a style I can comprehend. I do notice that I absorb more information when I watch documentaries or things that draw it out in front of me though.

Because you have different neurology than them, and thus process things differently.

If it makes you feel any better, please know that NTs don't always take in and understand what they read, even if it's totally comprehensible to us, cognitively. It's entirely possible for us to look at the words and "read" them superficially, but reach the end of a page or paragraph and realize that we haven't been paying any genuine attention to it. We may be distracted by other thoughts or our surroundings, disinterested in the topic, or just not in the mood (tired, stressed, in need of something more stimulating). Don't be too hard on yourself.

Reading involves only one sense; the same with listening to the spoken word. Most people (NTs anyway) usually benefit from hearing and seeing what they're supposed to be learning but some people depend significantly more on one sense or the other--the "visual learner" and the "auditory learner."

Personally, I think that unless someone is hypersensitive or just put off by a certain way of taking in information, almost everyone processes info best when they can experience it via all their senses--and sometimes that includes doing something physically--sooner or later.