Asperger's and music

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what do you think of the "Mozart effect"?

I use music to shut out more frustrating noises like when I'm at the store or anything. It helps prevent overload and it sort of acts like a stim for me when I wear my headphones. Although I strangely seem to mostly hate American voices. I go for Japanese singers, the men have softer voices I like. It's comfortable.

I sit front row in all of my engineering classes, with a headphone in one hear playing whatever music i feel like listening to at the time. I had a professor call me out during lecture thinking it was rude, but I replied it was to keep his words from going in one ear and coming out the other. They blend with the music this way and I grasp things better. I do all of my homework to music as well. Keeps my flow on track.

I envy all the multitaskers on this thread. my life would be easier if only I could multitask.

I can't concentrate on other things when listening to music either, or at least my concentration is much less efficient. I simply hate when someone insists on listening to music at work. It can be more irritating than co-workers talking around. I also can't do multitasking, e.g. listening to what is said in the office and concentrating on the work at hand. OK, to some degree I can, but it's more like directing attention back and forth.

directing attention back and forth is also a big toughie, it is like my hinge is very sticky and needs nuclear-powered WD-40.

Sometimes relatively simple electronic music engages my attention to at least approx. 60% so I find it difficult to concentrate on anything else (I'm writing this message listening to one, though... ):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK4mzEZcWKM

I can't tolerate harsh-sounding electronic music, only mild, like this.

Directing attention back and forth when one is a task and the other is a conversation between others is not as difficult, but it requires a certain mood, a mental state which I seem to lack these days somehow, I don't know, maybe I spend too much time on WP...

my fave electronic music is the grandpappy of 'em all, isao tomita.

My mind drifts when I listen to music and I have a hard time focusing on what I'm doing or the conversation I'm having when it's playing, although soft background music like at a restaurant is okay.

I like music...but I like quiet, too. I don't want to be in a situation where music is playing constantly. It would drive me crazy. I enjoy listening to the crickets at night.

I am not like that at all. I love silence. Usually I am already stressed of too much sensory overload and music only makes it worse.

I am more like that.

Also for those interested in music there is a research being done in music taste and autism in the music forum! It is really cool, check it out

I can read music, so I kinda imagine the actual notes dancing with the music.

absolutely--i find it much easier to concentrate if i listen to music while i draw or paint. i find it too distracting to listen to while writing, but it's just right for cultivating the focus i need for detailed drawing. i think the disparity happens because although both writing and drawing/painting are creative activities, when i'm drawing or painting i'm only using my visual cortex and spatial reasoning, but for writing i have to access my language centers as well and that takes much more--and a different sort of--concentration for me which the music interferes with.

Music always helped me when i work or do chores,it helps me focus on what im doing and less of whats going on in my mind,it also motivates me more.
To me Silence can be deafening

For me, it all depends on the type of music and the situation. There are some situations where I can put on some music and be totally "in the zone", others where I can't focus on anything at all for the life of me, and I actually have to keep my music off to avoid being overloaded.