When social issues are *not* the primary problem/difference?
1.Information going between the environment and me. I function very well within my own shell, but when applied to my immediate practical environment, my poor short term memory cannot keep track of what I have to do. Social problems result from this, because most people are very environmentally oriented. For example, I do not like to play games, I never had a job, or a car, or lived alone, etc. My intelligence is severely split between extremely high conceptual level and poor short term memory, so that I am not compatible with any IQ level. I fear the immediate environment, including people.
2.My tastes, desires, abilities, etc. are so different from most people that I cannot mix with them. For example, besides having no interest in games or environmental interface as mentioned above, I have no interest in sex, I find infants disgusting, I have no interest in social conflict or any story where anything goes wrong, my thinking is mathematically oriented, my orientation to music is very different from most people, I have extreme discriminatory feeling reactions to people, from extremely disgusting to extremely wonderful, etc, etc.
But I have much love in my heart, I can be very warm and caring and very affectionate, but due to the above, and my non-alignment to my physical appearance, I have no friends or connection of any real kind to the world around me. While I can be a very good friend, I make a very bad showing as a stranger, so that no one would give me a chance at volunteer positions, etc. I can only function very directly, and that is not acceptable behavior for a stranger.
Solidarity. I've spent a long time feeling like no one will ever give me a chance to be loving, because I am so unsettling or different as a stranger.
How do you perceive music? I realise this may be hard to describe.
Thank you for responding.
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Zylon
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker

Joined: 26 Jan 2007
Gender: Male
Posts: 74
Location: deep within my shell
mourner asked me how I perceive music.
My basic perception of reality is the same now as when I was an infant: on one side there is me, my toys, other people in general, etc. But on the other side is the "nurturing medium", consisting of my mother and adults who act as a mother to me, secure parts of the environment, such as food, the house, the car, the sky, the crib, the ground, and what religious people call "God". It is from the latter realm that, to me, music is part of. To me, music is not the sound of human behavior, but rather it is an entity of its own, a spirit of reality itself. Therefore, music which sounds like people playing around (e.g. rock, folk, primitive, someone simply singing a song or playing a guitar) just sounds like noise to me. I was shocked to find out that music is actually produced by human behavior, more so than any magic. But music that actually sounds like human behavior is not music to me.
(Example of music: Les Baxter Tahiti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ReAYC0lUBY )
Also, to me musical units are connected to times and events of my life; they are actually part of the time/event.
Do you (or anyone else on this forum) perceive music as I do?
If not, how do you perceive music? Do you like my example of music above?
Thank you for your reply.
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