ChatBrat wrote:
I sat here and couldn't think of one NT that I know who makes sounds.
I think my husband and I are both AS and we are both bad about making sounds. Only when it's just the two of us or when our daughter is around though. We don't make sounds in public. We don't do them constantly though or we'd drive each other insane. It's like clicking the tongue, different sounds made with the mouth/lips, tapping pencils/pens/objects, drumming our hands against our thighs, humming music, etc. Just mild nervous/energized behavior.
Last year my sister flew out to spend a couple of weeks with us and we drove her mad with our noises and singing, and the thing she hated more than anything was when someone would say a sentence and it would spark off a song by my husband or I. Like if my sister said "I had a weird dream last night." we'd sing "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas" or we'd rattle off Martin Luther Kings "I had a dream...." It's like there is a song or a saying to everything anyone says.
I think that is probably when she decided she didn't want to move to my town and hang out with me LOL
The song triggering thing is a nightmare.. and the worst thing is, the more songs you know, the worse it gets. Barely a sentence goes past that doesnt involve a song lyric these days. Sometimes our house is like the set for a Broadway musical...especially near christmas, or if my brother is around.. (we have a tendency to sing old adverts and tenacious D in duet.)
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