FireandIceBringer

FireandIceBringer t1_iy5djyo wrote

I can read 3-4 times faster when doing so by myself with a physical or kindle copy of a book.

However, what I do love about audiobooks is I can listen to them at times when reading would be impossible. For instance, I can listen while exercising, walking the dog, preparing dinner, doing the dishes, vacuuming or doing the laundry.

Because I listen to audiobooks I can get through about 110 books a year. Without audiobooks, it would probably be somewhere between 80-95 books a year.

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FireandIceBringer t1_itvzbxz wrote

As a person with autism, I don't really know why people who don't have autism are so interested in labeling characters as autistic. Especially as it is almost always villains or characters who get held up for mockery that get labeled as autistic. Rarely someone admirable or good.

And all the traits that you are associating with autism and Mr. Collins are negative.

Some of us on the autistic spectrum can pick up on social cues to varying degrees. Some people who are not on the autistic spectrum are also terrible at picking up social cues. Especially the arrogant male which is what Mr. Collins came off to me as. A pompous and arrogant male.

Some autistic people will practice compliments and other set phrases to try to be polite and better blend into society. Some other people will practice compliments and set phrases because they are ambitious and want to be seen as charming or to get ahead in society. Autistic people like myself are usually just trying to avoid getting mocked for everything we do.

Some autistic people would do well in a university setting. Some wouldn't. Same as people who are not autistic.

Autistic people can make friends and connections.

Autistic people may develop special interests. Those special interests are more likely to involve inanimate objects (trains are a common one, especially with males) or matters of academic/intellectual interest. It is rare for an autistic person to be obsessed with someone who is super rich just because they are super rich as we are rarely that shallow. Also it's kind of insulting to associate our special interests with something you describe as "absurd."

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FireandIceBringer t1_itr5eks wrote

No. If I didn't finish a book, I don't rate or review it. Nor do I count it as read.

I don't hesitate to put down a book if I'm not connecting with it, however. Sometimes I give books a second or third chance to click with me months or years later.

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