Is your reading comprehension poor?

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I am college educated. and mine is horrible. I have difficulty understanding what I am reading a lot of times. Is this a characteristic of AS?

I do too. I usually only understand a literal meaning. Anything deeper, and I won't get it. You'll have to explain it to me in great detail. Even so, that doesn't guarantee that I'll get it because I'm insensitive and don't understand emotions very well.

yeah...mine is pretty shoddy for different reasons

My reading comprehension is pretty good and I considered taking an English Literature degree. It's always been a strong point for me and I love to read a finely crafted piece of literature. Cormac McCarthy is one of my favourite authors for this reason - reading his writing is like wallowing in deep, thick, melted and velvety chocolate

That said, difficult maths makes me anxious

My reading comprehension has always been awesome, it's my strong point. The exception is when I have a situation where I have to read something I don't want to read, then it all seems like a random collection of meaningless words.

I exactly find this a hard point!! There are some questions which I particularly struggle with because I'm Aspie.

Is my reading comprehension poor?

Only when your writing comprehension is poor.

My reading comprehension is mostly pretty good. I've always scored really high on reading tests. On my university placement test, I scored high enough to take an advanced composition class that saved me having to take two separate ones.
But if I read for a long enough period of time (which isn't very long), it all starts to blur together. I'll end up finishing a paragraph, and then I won't remember what just happened. Sometimes I'll try to go on and be totally lost, so I have to back up and reread parts of it. Usually I try to read long texts one part at a time. I also read really slowly, so it can take a while. A chapter or two a day is usually good for me (depending on the length of the chapters).

Also, if someone interrupts me in the middle of reading, I get really ... anxious? And agitated, I guess. And I totally forget what I was just reading. I have to go back and find my place and reread a bunch, and it's kind of irritating.

No, not too bad... I was hyper-lexic. I can scroll through meanings of words in an instant and usually comprehend them.

Excellent if I'm interested in what I'm reading, hideous if I'm not.
So I only read what interests me.

My reading comprehension is allright, I guess. But my attention span is somewhat too short, which means I often read books back to front or just at random odd places.

The reading comprehension per se gets bad only when the text is too abstract. I can handle some philosophy, like the ancient Greeks, most Existentialists and anything connected to practical ethics (analysing situations and the like); all this is simple, follows the rules of basic common sense logic, and (often) involves my emotions, which makes everything much easier. But when it comes to Thomas Acquinas, Hegel, Kant or modern philosophers like Derrida or Foucault, it's no go. I will read a sentence and maybe understand it, or it will seem so, but then I start reading the next and lose the train of thought. The next sentence makes it even worse. By the time I finish the first paragraph, the text loses any semblance of coherence, and I end up feeling like I am wandering in some dense fog.

Math is pretty much no go in any shape or form. Some time ago I translated this large paper on the introduction of innovations into society. The second part was intended for specialists and had lots of sophisticated calculations. I literally couldn't understand anything and had to rely on the grammatical and morphological links between words to be able to translate it. (it was a good linguistic exercise, though )

My 11 year old has a really hard time with comprehension. He's a fairly good reader, but he never gets anything that isn't OBVIOUS within the writing. Just yesterday I was working with him, and wondering what I could possibly do to make reading comprehension easier for him.

Then, the next thing I wonder is, does it really matter?

(this is coming from an English major, of all things!)

Kris

My reading comprehension is one of my strengths. Although I do have some issues with a few things, to call them reading-comprehension issues would be analogous to describing my inability to read and comprehend French as being a reading-comprehension issue rather than a broader more comprehensive language issue, (specifically, I do not have proficiency with the French language - in fact I am monolingual).

I strongly suspect that reading comprehension is my strongest 'receptive' communication skill.

I am amongst those whose reading comprehension is good. That being said, there are situations that come across as challenging to me, but these things rarely occurs in longer prose (I can read books effortlessly), but moreso in other situations.