I hate music (Processing disorders)

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Well that's not entirely true. I don't hate music anymore. In fact, for the most part, I rather like it, but I have some auditory processing issues and until the age of about 9 or 10 it didn't do much of anything for me unless it engaged me in some way (The Hokey Pokey, for example) and I didn't understand why people liked it so much.

If you've ever heard a bad song that doesn't have much in the way of a cadence, pattern, or predictability to it, that is generally what most songs sounded like to me.

I'm curious if others have had similar experiences.

I have always found music much nicer to read then listen to.

My mother is always trying to get me to go to the orchestra and things and i just take no interest in it mostly. I would much prefer to sit at home and read the sheet music and sight transpose the different parts into other instruments or various keys in my head.

I do take some enjoyment out of rock and so i have consciously avoided reading the music because then i would be less then impressed with it overall. I had to transpose happiness is a warm gun for a uni assignment and now that song sounds awful to my ears.

There is a disorder called amusia where music can actually sound like construction work.
So maybe you may have something mild like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusia

I'm just glad that I have a more over emotional reaction to music than amusia.

I've been playing piano for a really long time and I just finished an undergrad degree in music. The thing that always bothered me was that I didn't care for listening to other people play, but I really like music when I'm producing it myself. I also tend to unintentionally "tune out" and miss half the piece. That's really annoying. It seems like everyone else in my school would be excited when they could go to a "big name concert."

I think it might be an empathy thing. Other people seem to be emotionally moved by the musician, but I can't be affected unless I'm playing myself. I do like to listen to music for fun, but only if I happen to be learning the piece on piano. I've been listening to the Beethoven Piano concerto No 4 for the last month and a half, and pretty much nothing else. It's because I'm learning the piece.

I occasionally find it weird that, despite my high levels of auditory sensitivity, I am (figuratively) in love with music.

I used to hate all music. Until I listened to the Who and Sigur Rós for the first times and discovered the genres of Post-Rock, Folk and Minimalist.

I can relate to finding certain rhythms in songs hard to listen to or i seem to single out specific beats instead of listening to it as a whole. smoking weed makes music have a much deeper sensation for me personally.