Closed Captioning During TV Programs and Movies

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I am wondering if this is an aspie trait. It seems like I can follow TV programs a lot better if I am watching the program/movie with closed captioning on. I am not deaf or hard-of-hearing but I am more focused on the program if I read the captions. Is this weird?

I can remember doing that a lot, when we finally did get a TV that actually had that function (I was at least 19 or 20 by then, I think).

My son often turns on the subtitles for the DVDs he watches.

It may be weird, or strange, but you're not the only one.

I do that all the time

Especially when I get to watch jeopardy late at night. Just helps me understand better, if that makes sense, what's going on.

Its like your senses, if you loose one, the others improve. This is sort of comparable. If you no longer listen to the words or watch their faces, but if you read it, then that can improve your sense of understanding whats happening. Also sometimes for an aspie, if something random happens in the background that has nothing to do with anything, they may start to think about that, and be distracted from the main show or movie, so reading the words can also help with that.

I prefer turning on closed captioning for programs I Watch

Same here. This is especially true when I watch anime, even if it is already dubbed (English voice-overs), I still like to have the CC on all the same.

I used to do that. Although another interesting part of it was to notice the discrepancies between the caption text and the spoken words.

do you prefer subbed or dubbed



this. especially with anime as roxas said. Official subbing vs. what the dub says (the rare times I BUY anime..). and I know a little japanese from anime so it's interesting to see the usages

I seem to need it if I'm watching a movie on TV but not so much with regular TV. I started using it years ago when I had a roommate who wanted to comment loudly on everything he saw and he was one of those people you couldn't tune out.

Oh, ye gods, dubbed anime?

/kills it. With fire.

Back to the topic at hand: Yes, I prefer to follow with subtitles and closed captioning. I guess my aural processing is not exactly very good.

Hey, even a hardcore otaku like me gets tired of hearing the word "desu" being repeated an infinitesimal amount of times during the course of 30 minutes or less.

I'm 50/50. I can watch a program and understand what is going on even without closed captions, but sometimes I like closed captioning when it comes to watching a program.

No, I don't think this is an aspie trait. I think you are being cognitively realistic.
You will naturally comprehend more of what you see if you have the visual, auditory, as well as textual support to understand it. I think just about anyone would feel the same way. I certainly benefit from things like this. Just the same way that I comprehend more of what I read when I say it out loud. Adding more context to your sensory input helps the brain make sense of it.

I love Closed Captioning! I have trouble with accents so if I'm watching Monty Python or something, Closed Captioning is crucial.

I most definitely prefer the closed captioning be on while I'm watching T.V. I have a really hard time filtering out background noise, so if it weren't for closed captioning I'd probably miss a lot of what is being said during a program. Even simple noises like me eating something crunchy while watching T.V. will make it hard to hear all of what's being said.

I'll be the Negative Nellie, here. I can't stand having anything moving along the edges of the screen, it's very distracting. I hate the ticker used on some news shows for the same reason. But then, the moving ads on the net bug me, too. I have to put my hand over them to concentrate on what I'm reading.

Regards,

Patricia