Is music designed for autistics

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Apart from the obvious fact that any given song has the same words every time, they also have an added predictability: before they ever say the first word, they have that tune that make you *know* what song are they about to sing. Now, autistics like predictability. So could it be that the music is sort of designed for them? I mean I heard people saying that autistics are good in music and that kind of stuff. But I don't think anyone ever pointed out that thing with the tune helping you predict the song. People think the predictor-tune thing is sort of a given, but to me it strikes me as autistic.

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Oh absolutely!

All of the great composers of history (98 percent of whom were NT) were writing solely for the benefit of the one or two percent of the population who are autistic. Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Gilbert and Sullivan, Louis Armstrong, Gershwin, Lennon and McCartney, Elton John, Kanye West, all of them....were going against their NT nature just to please autistic listeners. Doing so by putting a little repetition in their music.

Total sarcasm.

If you're suggesting that music is literally "designed for autistics" then that is obviously nonsense.

For some reason humans need repeated rythmns, and repeated melody lines, when listening to music. If anything its a very NT thing. Its part of social interaction. A crowd will respond to the music by moving as group (even if they don't actually dance together), and that's aided and abetted by certain amounts of repetition. Like the repeated phrases that a drill sergeant barks at a unit to keep it marching in unision. Very extravert. Very group oriented. Very NT. Which doesn't mean that autistics cant excel at music. And music may well be a good a bridge between autistics and nts and help autistics to interact with nts.

I admit, it's laughable...


It is rather cheesy, but music is designed for anything, really.
The soul, through the body and brain, through the listener's perspectives...

It mattered a nil what the neurology is, what the context is, or what the heck is made of. Not even specifically for humans.
Not even for those with hearing.
Let alone something less encompassing as 'scales' of autistic and allistic -- no pun intended.


The 'music' that most human knows are mostly musics for humans to listen, along with what humans considers music from some noise or sounds.

Therefore most evidences are based on known data... And the question if music is for autistics...

Just like a certain cultures mostly knows it's own culture's music or musics that they only allow themselves to listen if it happens that there are other musics to be filtered/censored/averting/unequipped from.
Neither human known music for is autistic nor allistic. It goes beyond that.

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I think that music is designed for anyone who likes it. I love to listen to music. Another person on the spectrum might not like music at all.

Most, if not all, humans like music. That's why there are radios, music channels, top charts, CDs, albums, iPods, Spotify, records, the list goes on. NTs love it. In fact the latest hits are what NTs like to talk about, and also music helps bring memories from when you grew up or different times of our lives. A lot of NTs have a talent for a musical instrument too.

And in the era where the earliest music was first introduced I don't think autism was even known of then.

Because that's the nature of songs. It comes naturally to composers.

If the film Amadeus was based on biographical details, then Mozart was most certainly autistic, in terms of personality. It’s the best such portrayal I’ve ever seen, and far more “me” than those odd acting detectives, or whatever. Clues are his irreverence of the nobility, the way he corrected the “too many notes” comment. It would also explain why he had such a hard time making a living from his music; the Establishment (who back then were the only people who could afford music lessons, private recitals and the like) don’t like autistics!