@actuallyautistic Does anybody else out there actually prefer reading to watching TV? I find my own imagination creating the characters and scenery from what I am reading to be far more entertaining than what I watch on TV. LOL, I am such a geek. 🤓 😹
@housepanther@actuallyautistic As in "reading TV"? Yes-ish. I mostly watch videos on the side and subtitles are a massive help to jump back in whenever I pause them for a longer time, but ALSO when I'm overloaded .. then I'm muting them and watch them with subtitles only.
@housepanther@actuallyautistic reading is my lifelong favorite too. i grew up without tv and never got the hang of broadcast, but have started enjoying streaming tv and movies. for me, while i find some content is really suited to the audiovisual format, it's also much easier to become overwhelmed with the sheer throughput of sensory information. i have to be careful what i watch and take some shows in small doses.
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Lifelong bookworm & irritated by the excessive noise of the world, I always watched some shows but not whatever's on TV so streaming made things easier for me- waiting rooms with TVs drive me right up a wall
@housepanther@actuallyautistic Vastly, but partly because I see so little TV I'm interested in, and it's so hard to access that little (subscribe to this, subscribe to that, whoops, now the thing I want has been removed...)
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I personally like to have 'background noise' tv show or movie on monitor 2. I haven't powered my actual 'tv' in about 3, maybe 4 years.
Occasionally I'll sit down and focus on a TV show, but it's pretty rare.
Books, however, are constant. I'm always, always reading. I don't actually typically cast people in books visually (I have strong issues with visualization in general), but I enjoy them signifcantly more.
@Oggie@housepanther@actuallyautistic Last year, wife and i listened to 42 audiobooks on our walks together. If we dont think a book will interest the other, we get a hard copy to read.
@housepanther@actuallyautistic Depends on the book...read one once by (IIRC) Steve Berry that I was mentally casting for the movie: Jason Statham for the car chase scenes, e.g.
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