Books.

Hello!


Are there any book fans here?


I love books they are my absolute fav thing. I have a huge collection of books, some are old and some are new. Probably the oldest I’ve got is early Agatha Christie ones, and, some Charles Dickens ones as well. I’ve read them all many times before and I always go back to them, especially my fav ones! My fav books are the Harry Potter series, Twilight, Narnia Chronicles and Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit! I just bought the last Harry Potter book but with the adorable new cover... Makes a really lovely set.


I spend most of my time reading. I get tired pretty quick but I do still like reading each day. I have a Kindle as well but I prefer physical books. I love the smell that some of the older ones have. It’s one of the few smells that don’t trigger my hyper-sensitivity!

What’s your fav book? What are you reading right now?
Have a beautifully sunny and fabulous day!

Parents
  • I found time to read books again out of nowhere seemingly Smiley Whenever I go outside smoking I take a book with me, instead of my phone, so reading moves forward in 10min long intervals, allowing me to finish 1k pages book in a month. 

    I continue to keep contact with one of my ex-workmates because he is the most understanding and accepting allistc I have ever met, we chat via whatsup now and than. He recommended I read a chinese scifi trilogy by Cixin Liu ''Three-body problem'', ''The Dark Forest'', ''Death's End'', and I am almost at the end of 3rd tome finding it most captivating with many innovative ideas.

    In ''Death's End'' they encounter an area in space outside our solar system where 4D space manifests into our 3D space. If you want to find details about why, who, and when read the book. I wanted to talked about description of 4D space in a book only, as it is peculiar. Peculiar in way that's almost identical with my system of imagining I imagined, which I mentioned many times without specifics. Free-roaming ghost-like/bodyless perception in 3D space that can see through walls, more or less. Or described differently: internal, personal 3D Autocad-like Imagination. I've never told any specifics to anybody.

    I wonder would that be something autistic related?? Would that indicate Cixin Liu is autistic as well?

    The way our imagination works, except it's very difficult to describe it in words, so there isn't many trying. 

  • I went on Google to see if there'd been any studies of autistic imagination; before I'd finished typing the sentence, the top result appeared: 'Can autistic people have imagination?' Disappointed

  • More pleasingly:

    'This paradox led researchers at the universities of East Anglia and Stirling to study creativity and autistic traits in a large group of both autistic and non-autistic individuals. Their tests of creativity involved coming up with as many innovative uses for common objects or interpretations of vague pictures as they could in one minute. The total number of suggestions was recorded, and they were rated on how unusual they were.

    The authors found that individuals with higher levels of autistic traits made fewer suggestions than those with lower levels of autistic traits. Surprisingly, however, the suggestions from those with higher levels of traits had greater originality. It seems that being on the autistic spectrum is associated with being able to generate suggestions that were more creative.

    Why is this particularly interesting? Given the plethora of reports of autistic difficulties and deficits, I always think that research on the strengths of autism is important. But this finding is intriguing because, even when considering autistic talents and ability, it doesn’t quite fit with the stereotypical view of the mathematically-minded autistic genius who lacks flexibility of thought and imagination.'

    theconversation.com/autistic-people-are-more-creative-than-you-might-think-46107

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  • More pleasingly:

    'This paradox led researchers at the universities of East Anglia and Stirling to study creativity and autistic traits in a large group of both autistic and non-autistic individuals. Their tests of creativity involved coming up with as many innovative uses for common objects or interpretations of vague pictures as they could in one minute. The total number of suggestions was recorded, and they were rated on how unusual they were.

    The authors found that individuals with higher levels of autistic traits made fewer suggestions than those with lower levels of autistic traits. Surprisingly, however, the suggestions from those with higher levels of traits had greater originality. It seems that being on the autistic spectrum is associated with being able to generate suggestions that were more creative.

    Why is this particularly interesting? Given the plethora of reports of autistic difficulties and deficits, I always think that research on the strengths of autism is important. But this finding is intriguing because, even when considering autistic talents and ability, it doesn’t quite fit with the stereotypical view of the mathematically-minded autistic genius who lacks flexibility of thought and imagination.'

    theconversation.com/autistic-people-are-more-creative-than-you-might-think-46107

Children
  • I have written a couple of Sci-Fi pastiches for online fan sites. I think my world-building, plot-lines and characters were good, what I could not do was write flowing, natural sounding or believable dialogue - at least to me it seemed clunky and false. Perhaps this is what they mean with 'difficulties with social imagination'.

  • stereotypical view of the mathematically-minded autistic genius

    as the only autistic version is wrong, it's just one of autistic faces, 

    just because it's to complicated to describe it and to communicate it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, it only means there are no means to explain it in an easy mannner yet.