Lol you're not wrong. I literally went from feeling uncomfortable trying to read a RPF out of curiosity (think it was a supernatural one years and years before that was a bit too much for me), to realizing that AUs are the key to enjoyment haha.

I think the ones I get weird about are the ones set too close to IRL stuff (like when the person being written about has lost a family member and a fic writer decides to write about how they feel - that sort of thing I can't handle). Put the people into a drastically different scenario like a mafia AU then I'm all for it.