Autism test, fiction, and why?

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I recently took an online autism test on a friend's recommendation.
One of the questions was simply, do you enjoy fiction?
I struggle to understand any correlation between media preferences and autsim and how it could be a determining factor in a diagnosis.
What's your take on the matter?

I also included a poll because I'm curious.

yeah, that's the more classic autism (hfa), but not always for aspergers



i can't be depressed because i sleep at night,
soooo from that i probably also can't have autism/aspergers

My mother was a public librarian.
I had unlimited access to the library including restricted and the stacks.
Until she left, I read every sci-fi they had and the entire 621 section.
(Plus I had first pick of the "withdrawn")
Thanks mum

I like both. I've always read a lot of fiction, so does my autistic daughter. We write it too.

For me, fiction is valuable because its only good when the characters are recognisable as real people. I mean they behave in ways that real people behave, they have motivations that real people have and react to things in a way that rings true.

So you can have a story set in a totally unrealistic place - e.g. a space station in another galaxy - but you can still apply what you learn from it to real life because its always just people, being people. Unless it's aliens. Even then, in fiction, they're usually just analogues for people.

Authors are usually students of human behaviour. Most of what I've learned about people has come from fiction and it's served me well in real life.