Why Do I Make Rhythms All The Time???

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I do that, too, it's cool but I wish I could do numbers all the time instead, it would be much cooler and a lot more useful, too.

I make rhythms so often, unfortunatly for me, it is most commonly one I made up that I am not really fond of that much, and unless I have a song in my head, it is always that generic rythm. I live my life to a beat, but wish it was the othr way around, and a beat lived to myself.

Rhythms and Rhymes, Tapping and Chimes topic

Proudly doing this consciously for 46+ years!

I do it all the time, and I have been for the whole of my life.

I do it when I'm bored; but I got around it by buying a real drum set and learning to play...

I do the same and didnt know it was another autistic trait before now

I always have rhythms in my head, 24/7. The songs I've heard before get really annoying inside my head. Sometimes I have to make up my own music to get their songs out of my head. I do drumming with hands and fingers against various objects, clicking of teeth, beat boxing, and singing in gibberish. I'm afraid to do it in front of people, but some people have said that I have great rhythm and talent. I'm still too embarrassed to do it in front of people.

Other than that, I use my legs to stim in rhythm, right leg bouncing, and swaying both legs inward and outward, and pacing back and forth in exactly the same way repetitively, or in circles around an obstacle such as a table.

I always have music in my head, too. I have a habit (not sure if it's a stim) of biting / grinding my teeth to music and making beats in my mouth that are inaudible to other people. It's hard to explain... But the teeth grinding gives me a headache and is probably why they are sensitive.

I tap my fingers and bounce my legs frequently, too.

Me too. I quietly do that tooth-tapping thing etc. I don't make rhythms too noticeably because I don't like it when other people do it, so I reckon people wouldn't like me doing it either.

I wouldn't want to medicalise it though, as I see it as essentially a good thing, very cathartic. To me it's not a sign of ADHD or any other medical problem, it's just a thing that comes from the fact that the human race likes making rhythms, it's a very primitive urge. If you do it more than most, maybe you've just got the beginnings of musical talent. If you do it less than most, maybe you're just not very into rhythm.

I'd recommend anybody who has this trait to try out a few musical instruments and see if you enjoy it. I became quite good at tapping out rhythms on my desk at school (there was often little else to do that worked), and I still enjoy doing much the same thing when I'm listening to music. And the acquired skill comes in handy when I'm jamming with friends and don't happen to know the chords - I tap the rhythm on the woodwork of the guitar and in that way I help to enhance the music.

I've got constant rhythms too. I feel like I can't think and my breathing is consciously controlled if I stop.
Rhythms have been with us since before we were born. Our heart beat, breathing, pulse.
Maybe we are more tuned into our inner rhythms than to the outer world.

I'm always counting. I count the words in a sentence or the letters in a word. I try to see if the numbers can be divisible by 2 or 3. I do this over and over again with the same things. I see and make patterns everywhere. I always tap my teeth too.

Sometimes I can't sit still and I have to move, I run around and room to try to relieve stress or just feel better.