love for music?

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do you love music, is it an aspie thing?

I love music, find it soothing and mood-elevating.

I am pretty obsessed with music, pretty much my favorite thing.

Yeah I love music, it makes me speeded at times, almost stronger than coffee for me, I'm probably addicted, I listen to music every day, can't get away from it.

My interest in music goes beyond just finding stuff I like. I love discovering and learning about the history and culture of any type of music; I could spend one week reading about and listening to indigenous Chinese folk music and then the next I can spend it reading about and listening to gangsta rap. All of it just fascinates me.

As far as my personal tastes, though I put my feelers in a lot of different genres and bands, I primarily really only stick with my obsessions over 30-ish particular bands of varying genres, to the point where I'd sooner seek out live bootlegs of said bands than seek out different bands of a similar ilk. That's just how my mind works, I guess.

Music has helped me through a lot. I wouldn't be here if it hadn't helped me in varying situations like it did. One of my most favorite bands of all is Simple Plan because they've done so much for me.

There are many non-autistic people that love music. I don't think it's related to autism.

I myself have developed a strong dislike for music in general because wherever I go it is forced on me. I prefer silence. Silence is more peaceful.

I do listen to some music but it's limited to only certain songs and only when I'm doing nothing else.

I love music (most kinds of music), both listening and making. Every time I've had a teacher, though, she's felt that music is all about performance, audience, and what I learned I'd have to show off in a recital, and I get terrible stage fright. Best I can do with that is singing in choir, where nobody is looking at me in particular, but at the choir as a whole. But I don't think the love of the music is an aspie thing. Maybe the stage fright is.

I enjoy many sorts of music; if it's forced upon me, though, I cringe and get irritated.

I don't believe music appreciation is an Aspie/Autistic thing. I think it's pretty universal.

I have heard it said that people sang before they actually spoke.

It is definitely true that singing, as opposed to talking, decreases disfluency (e.g., stuttering) and also lessens a person's spoken "accent."

Yes I like music, I'll put on a CD while I'm doing the housework, it makes housework more enjoyable then.

I am incredibly sensitive to music. Interesting, well-crafted dance music or rock can really make me feel as if I've ingested a stimulant. Beautiful music - especially classical pieces - can move me to tears. If I discover a new track I like, I will play it into the ground. Day after day...

But I find much pop/chart/modern RNB music almost unbearable. Not because I am a snob or I only listen to underground music (I like many kinds of music including some pretty mainstream things) or because of volume but because it is so ugly and poorly constructed it actually causes me physical discomfort. It starts with a restless, annoyed feeling and builds to a headache and nausea if it carries on. Anyone else get this?

I love music, and I listen to a wide variety of different artists, though I'm sorta picky about the type of music I listen to, if that makes any sense. If someone turns on the radio and starts blaring some Top40 crap, I'm out of there. If someone drags out their Tool records on the other hand, count me in!

I love music. They can calm me in a way that only few things on earth can.
No one almost never see me outside of my house without some earphone, they make it easier to do not stress too much with the absurd amount of noises when i'm outside.

Music is one of the only things in life that make complete sense to me.

I have to listen to one of my favourite bands on a daily basis or I start feeling like I'm losing touch with reality.

Music is the divine, it is the truth; as Nietzsche put it, "without music life would be a mistake".

I also play several instruments, somewhat obsessively.

I take songs very seriously - the emotions depicted in them are completely real to me. It took me a long time to realise that for many people, music is just rhythmic background noise to whatever it is they're doing. I cannot stand music in the background - it's silent in my home, except when I sit down to listen to a record, in which case I am fully focused on that and can't do even a simple manual task such as tidying, simultaneously.

Additionally, with certain songs I'm compelled to listen and re-listen to specific parts over and over again. Like, for example, if there's one vocal melody in one line or a certain part of an instrumental solo which I like, I'll skip back and re-listen to that bit 10-20 times over every time I listen to it.

From what I understand, stuff like that is a common trait with AS, but does anybody else share the same experience?