Anyone else not watch TV?
I don't own a TV. It's hard for me to sit still to watch anything; it's not mentally intensive enough and my mind wanders. I used to enjoy some TV shows as a child, but I think I've outgrown most of what's available now. I do watch some things on my computer, for example lectures and youtube videos, but I never just watch something. I'm always doing something else too--crochet or playing a game, usually. The last TV show I watched regularly and liked was History Channel's "Life After People". It's got a lot of interesting information about engineering, biology, history, ecology, and materials sciences, all wrapped up in an intriguing premise: What happens to the world if humans vanish? Highly recommended. I finished a couple of afghans while watching it, and it's available on YouTube now because it's old enough that they don't mind that somebody put it up there.
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I have a Samsung 55-inch LED TV in my living room and all I use it for is surfing the net. All I got hook to my TV is a PC computer. No cable, antenna, satellite, DVD, Blu-ray or VCR. I have not watch network based TV in over 20 years and I don't miss it one bit. In fact, With the internet and all those VOD services out there. I'm surprised that there are any network base TV services out there.
I don't really watch any TV. If I like a series, I usually try and find it on DVD or it's usually downloaded on the internet so I watch it on Youtube or something.
I own plenty of videos and DVDs, but I just can't be bothered to get myself into anything on TV. If I get the DVDs, I can then watch it when I want. But I have trouble with focusing on things on TV.
I used to watch TV more when I was a child.
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I would rather watch movies we have and videos. I am not much of a TV watcher anymore. I have wanted to get rid of cable for two years now but my husband insists we need it for our child. We live with my parents now so they watch cable sometimes so we can't cancel it now.
Oh yeah my husband had a flat screen TV in our son's room and my mother kept telling me he doesn't need it in there. So finally I was cleaning and I decided to do some rearranging and I took the TV off the dresser and put it in the closet with the PS3 and games and closed it and put my son's stuffed animals on the dresser so they are not all crowded on top of the bookshelf.
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Charles
That's awesome and ironic indeed.
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Nice!
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EQ - 6
Your Aspie score: 164 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 29 of 200
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world. Not even our troubles. ~ Charles Chaplin
Find out if all the shows that your wife watches are available on Netflix. Netflix is only about $9/month.
Yeah we have Netflix and she was finally on board as long as we could add Hulu as well, but then she found that one of her shows doesn't come on either one, and she's not willing to give up the show. She doesn't really watch much tv herself, but she has about 4 or 5 shows that she dvr's and then watches them all at once.
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EQ - 6
Your Aspie score: 164 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 29 of 200
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world. Not even our troubles. ~ Charles Chaplin
I don't watch T.V anymore, I do watch some shows on Netflix but not very often. I can barley stand watching T.V or when anyone else does I'm tempted to leave the room, especially when someone has the volume up high and then they try to talk to me over that, I will just walk off eventually.
I watch television from now and then. (Even the normal one.) but hate it if people use television as "so the house doesnt have an empty impact all time." O_o My father did that, normally some minutes after he went home, the dumb television was running in the living room, and you heard the s**t through the whole house.
When it comes to series, I prefer to watch them on Internet or an DVD collection, I dont like it, if there are always so long time between 45 minutes episodes. So sometimes I have a specific series moment, and then I want to watch some episodes in a row, this gives me also the chance to choose to watch them when I want and are in the mood for them.
I dont like the advertisements on TV, they are getting more and more weird to get your attention, also that they are usually normally louder then the programm I watch. During the last years I prefer more and more non USA films. Its not about the USA specific, but beside Hollywood there are rarely other countries having money for tons of special effects and BANG-BOOM-BLAST 30 minutes street huntings... and so they concentrate instead normally on the film and not on special effects. Doesnt mean that there werent such US-films as well, but if I see its from scandinavia there is pretty less chance for it to be an special effects action film. ^^
My partner was as well an all-day-TV-running person, but I always needed to separate myself, because of the noise and so he started to pay himself more attention, when he is really watching something on TV, and when he simply had the television running, so that it creates noise. When we started our relationship, it was hard for him to imagine not to have a kids room including an television, but now he says himself, that he doesnt want a kid to have its own television in the kids room, because its simply leads to easy to let the TV run simply because of you are bored, and not because you are interested into the program. Nothing bad about watching something, because you are really interested in it, but you shouldnt do it because of being bored and being to lazy to think of something you would be interested to do instead.
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