Reading and Theory of Mind

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I tend to blindly believe what a first-person narrator says no matter what. If a narrator idolizes another character who is actually a scoundrel, it takes me forever to figure it out (I, the arch-Dickens fan, had to read Sparknotes before I understood that Steerforth was one of the bad guys in David Copperfield). I think this is my autism. I don't embody different perspectives unless an author makes me. It's very much a hindrance.

What can I do about this?

it's character development. Be surprised; that's half the fun of a novel.