Are there any "black" Aspies here?(No racial jokes

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Im black and I love listening to rap. I can listen to all parts of rap club/gangsta/lyrical part. As long as it sounds good.

I'm not diagnosed as aspie, but I'm black. I'm not big on rap/hip-hop but I like a lot of blues-blues/rock which was once "black music" as well.

As for being picked on, I was when I was younger by a few other black kids for somehow acting/talking white. But these particular kids(and their parents) were ignorant. I've even got apologies from most of the kids as we've grown up. I think we just came from different backgrounds and they didn't understand me.

However, since I finished high school, it's never happened, not once. No one questions the music I like or clothes or anything. No one cares and the only time anyone says anything about how I talk is when I'm down south( which is another subject.)

My father is black and if it weren't for the afro:

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/1435/photo60tf3.jpg

no one would ever know that I'm half black. Although, my favorite types of music in order are:

1. Daft Punk
2. Traditional Irish recorder music (go figure)
3. Symphonic rock (like Nightwish)
4. Classical music (since I play classical trumpet and piano)

Nowhere on my top 100 will you see anything related to "black" music, a.k.a. all that rap/hip hop crap. The closest thing to it that I've ever listened to and enjoyed is this: http://kirbyhot.ytmnd.com/

You gotta admit that that's just awesome. XD

I'm not black but I have to admit, I loathe most of the rap music that is out there today. I have been exposed to rap music since I was 5 or 6 years old (I'm 21 now) and most of the rap I heard as a kid had more substance than the rap I hear today. To be a rapper today all you really have to be is black. I don't see much talent at all, it's really becoming a pathetic genre of music and if it keeps up the way it is, it will die and fade away. The violence portrayed in the music doesn't bother me as long as it isn't encouraging violence, or any kind of derogatory BS. There are certain rappers that I like (Jay-Z for example) who rap about violence they have seen. I don't think I've ever heard Jay-Z talk about killing someone or anything like that before. There are other rappers that I like, but loathe a lot of the lyrics (like 2pac for example). The thing I don't like about 2pac is that he said a lot of contradictory things in his songs. You'll hear a love song, then you change the track and he starts saying "thug life" like it's a good thing to be a thug. Is it sad that 2pac died? Yes. But it's also sad that he chose to live a "thug" lifestyle. Nobody should be surprised that he died the way he did.

I'm black, but I'm not African American. My parents are from the Carribean. And you probably havent listened to real hiphop. The stuff on the radio is commercialized interpretation of real hiphop, under the guise of gangster rap. I listen to alot of rock. Check out the black rock coalition and the Afro-punk movie.

I am a black aspie and I am a hip hop fanatic. Although I like jazz, gospel, reggae and R&B My favorite is hip hop. Yet my discussion is multifaceted as I am also interested in politics, sports, etc. I as an Asperger am very social and open to conversation and a very cool person in general and not trying to be socially awkward as some (not all) aspies are.

I love hip-hop, everyone with AS should listen to it imo

Not black, but I know 1 black guy who is an aspie, and one who very possibly is.

When I was a teenager I would ride around in the car with my boyfriend (Ecuadorian)..listening to Public Enemy and the Ghetto Boys and Ice Cube and N.W.A..etc..etc...and I liked it.

When I was a kid, one of my major obsessions for a few years was African American culture..It consisted of mostly reading books...and I was obsessed with the black cheerleaders at my elementary school (a big group of girls who did cheers during recess)..and I followed them around and would sit near them at lunch and tried to do cheers with them...attempted to make uniforms for the "cheerleading squad"....etc...

They mostly thought i was really weird and a few of them ended up beating me up and pushing me down the stairs later on in Jr. High....

I like all kinds of music hip hop, rap, classical, theme songs etc : )

I'm black and I have NLD/mild asperger's. I hate most rap but R&B is ok. I listen to mostly J-pop/rock, German pop/rap and rock. My parents hate my tastes in music though.

There is a theory going around called the Neanderthal Theory, and states that ASD's might actually come from Neanderthals. The Neanderthal Genome Project has confirmed that their genes are 99.8% similar and that they could actually be just another race of homosapians. (With visual difference like Africans, Caucasians, Asians, and Polynesians etc) Neanderthals and similar species are thought to have breed with homosapians migrating from Africa. A sample group of Americans tested show that the most common with AS are whites/middle eastern, then Asian and North American and finally last African. The question they don't know is if it exists in pure African and if so on what scale.

Dragon