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Is it an Aspie/Autistic thing to hear music you hate and it drives you nuts?

No. It's just one of those things what anyone could feel.

what about when its stuck on a loop in your head?

I've had the Christmas carol "ding dong merrily on high" stuck on repeat in my mind for the last hour.

Jason

I am very sensitive to music - but not in a literal sonic sense, more of an emotional/thinking sense. So much so that I use music to modulate my mood and enthrall my brain. It actually helps me focus. There's part of my brain that's always in motion, and it can drag me through the emotional muck if I don't keep it occupied. Music is something I plug it into. Every day. It makes the world much better. I keep happy, interesting, introspective music around me during the workday.

Some music I can't bear - usually pop music or some overly polished crap. The "smooth jazz" elevator music at one of my jobs was actually unbearable. It made my mood and productivity so much worse. God it was awful.

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Everyone gets that; it's called an "earworm" (google it).

Cute, so have I infected you then?

Jason

No, I've had Queen's "Somebody to Love" for 2-3 years and nothing will drive it out at this point.

I suggest you think of a tune you do like and start humming it until that takes over your mental record player. Or you can turn on some music on the radio, CD player, or cassette player.

That happens to everybody.

I once had an incident where I was with some other people in a restaurant which played music. Suddenly they began playing a song which I really don't like at all, especially because of its lyrical content (which I find ridiculous in a fun way). Anyway, I started laughing out loud and laughed for 5 minutes (song lenghth plus some more time) without stopping and nobody understood why. I normally don't laugh like that but it was embarassing because nobody could understand why and even after I stopped and tried to explain, nobody understood my reaction and still kept looking at me like I was crazy. Embarassing. And I couldn't stopp laughing until the song was over and I tried to calm myself down.

So this is all that comes to my mind with your question: Hearing music you hate and it drives you nuts.
I didn't hate it but I certainly did not like it and made me laugh hard which for others looked as if I was nuts. But I would say it's something that is dependent on certain circumstances. This happens to me rarely.....so rare I'm not even sure if I could make a generalisation about this kind of behaviour and correlate it with anything at all.

(It reminds me of this scene from BBT...only worse.)

Do you mean, listen to things you hate on purpose? Not for me.

I only dislike the following: Maroon 5, System of a Down, Roxette. I might take the piss out of other artists, but they don't bother me.

Everybody gets songs stuck in a loop in their head, what makes you think it's only an Aspie thing?

I remember in a Spanish lesson at school, we had to listen to a Spanish song that also teaches us easy words in Spanish, like all the colours, and I remember for the rest of the day most of the kids in the class kept on singing the main chorus, and in maths one or two of them said, ''oh that Spanish song we listened to this morning won't stop going round in my head, I can't work out my sums properly!'' So I wasn't the only one, although I didn't keep singing it like the others did. The song died out in my head by the next day, not sure if it did with the others or not.

I got a song stuck in my head now, its a song I dont really like and its getting me mad already

I have one I like stuck in my head.

I hate hearing music I can't stand, it physically hurts my brain sometimes and always makes me want to do horrible things to make the pain stop but instead I just get a trollish expression on my face and growl about it or something equally abnormal and not very friendly......but I am pretty obsessive over music I do like, sometimes I feel as though I am addicted to music.

I think I literally am, to the point it scares me. One of the reasons I started talking about my symptoms on a forum, and wanting to channel my thoughts in the direction of an alternative diagnosis, was because the only way I cope with my depression is music, and in a way I want it to stop. I want to be able to live with myself, and not through other people.