Books.

I have a non-binary child. 

Erotica... Wow, that's got my attention! I remember an ex-boyfriend loaning me a book that fell into that genre, which had been written by a female. It was the first time I had read anything like that and I must admit that I rather enjoyed it, partly because I found it rather amusing in places.

I remember accompanying my son on a visit to the cinema to watch the first Harry Potter film. As a result, I made it my mission to purchase and read all the Harry Potter books. There were some that I found to be far better than the film versions.

I've read the letter she wrote that was skillfully written but highly inflammatory. I've also read the NHS guidance that no longer follows the advice put out by trans people themselves and expert advocates. I've also read that the government has excluded trans people from the ban on harmful conversion therapy, and that's all happened because of people like JKR promoting fear and prejudice. And if you think the wait for autism assessment is long, it's nothing compared to the wait and the hoops that people have to go through for gender services.

It's real. It's harmful. I'm not going to support someone who sets out to harm me and people I care about. That's not cancel culture, that's just accountability. 

That all sounds awesome! Sounds like you've written so much and best of luck with your current writing. Definitely keep going practice makes perfect and you never know you might make the next big thing :) 

Especially when you're not sure if it actually happened. It means it could be REAL

It's a bit different when what they're doing is actively harming the people that you love in the present time.

Luckily I am able to separate the works from the author in my mind. I can even appreciate the works of Yukio Mishima, despite him being an ultra-nationalist, militaristic, right-wing nutter, who committed seppuku after an abortive coup attempt.

I've written a whole heap of fanfiction. Half of it is *ahem* erotica. But I'm aiming to keep the novel I'm just starting safe for work. I always had trouble finishing stories when I was younger. Wtiting about characters from TV shows that I was obsessed with helped maintain my focus and hopefully was good practice for creating my original work.

I love her books but not a fan of her as a 'person' as she is let's be honest very unpleasant. 

That's cool that you write. What do you like to write about? I like to write short stories but I've trouble finishing them. 

Yes I have memory issues like that too - even though I've always done quite well academically.  I can understand something well in the short term, then seem to later forget almost everything I learned!

But also, people usually struggle to remember the names of characters in books - we talked about this in a writing class I once took.

I love Turtle Diary by the late Russell Hoban.  I discovered the book a few years ago after I saw the film version on TV, and noticed it was based on a book by Russell - I loved his children's book 'The Mouse and His Child' when I was a kid, though I think it was quite sad.

I love Primo Levi's The Periodic Table.

I'm currently rereading Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.

I enjoyed the Harry Potter books when I first read them, but unfortunately the author has ruined them for me.  I can't look at her name any more without getting angry.  She's using her skills as a writer to promote fear and prejudice that stops people from getting the support and protection that they need.  She even used autism in her argument in an ableist way.  And the problem is, that it's working and that fear and prejudice is now affecting the laws and much needed services.

I don't read as much these days as I spend more time writing, but I've just started the series "a wrinkle in time." I read the first book as a kid, and I didn't realise there were more.  And there's definite neuro-divergent themes in them, even though it was written well before it was generally known what that meant.  

Quick reads which is fast pace and large text.

Barrington stoke for dyslexia and reluctant readers.

Penguin readers which are different levels. 

Find large novels dragging, struggling and too much words.

Also non fiction books, especially young adults as got pictures. 

I've never asked about it before, but is there any other autistic who struggles with remembering names?

I noticed so many autor's names that sound completely alien to me, yet others remember them.

For some reason I can remember book titles and names of main characters sometimes, few writer's names and nothing past that.

Yes, goodreads provides a general view of what people think of the book, and sometimes authors are active on it, and I use it a lot to record and exchange views. How about you? How do you like to share your thoughts on books with people?
If I had to pick a favourite book, I think it would be a long list of about 50 books, so let's start with novels: Don Quixote, Carlos Fuentes' Our Land, McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Marquez' Love in the Time of Cholera, Bolaño's Distant Star.
If you have some interest in digital narratives, I also highly recommend the game Kentucky Route Zero, whose images add to the magical realism of the text. You can read new dialogue from it every time, and that just makes it become more complete and beautiful.
I really, really like these pieces. At a time when I felt alone and burdened, they helped me to regain a sense of pure hope, a firm presence and a clarity that stretches out infinitely. But I'm so busy with my studies these days that I rarely read novels anymore. Which books do you think you might read in the future? Or any short stories you'd recommend?

In all honesty, as frustrating as my floaters are, the prospect of eye surgery (or any kind of surgery) doesn't really appeal.

As for Enid Blyton, have you ever read any of the Malory Towers books?

I like the Harry Potter books and David Walliams ones best.

I have to use a kindle for fiction now, as there is no more space in my house for more physical books. There are about 5 boxes of books in the loft, still unopened from moving in to the house in 2009. 

I was first really awakened to fiction when I read Treasure Island aged about seven. If pressed I will still say that it is my favourite book. I read Lord of the Rings at 12, I had about a week of reactive depression when I finished it, because there was no more of it to read. 

Favourite authors in no particular order: Robert Louis Stevenson, Tolkien, James Joyce, Michael Moorcock, Jack Vance, JP Donleavy, Cordwainer Smith, Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, Ray Bradbury, Chinua Achebe, Patrick O'Brian, Guy de Maupassant, PG Wodehouse, Cecelia Holland, Brian Aldiss, CS Forester, Alan Garner, David Lodge, Francois Mauriac, George Eliot ...

Oh I just loved this book when I was little!