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I don't know if this is from Aspergers or not, but for my whole life I've had repetitive thoughts about certain things. For example, I still hear certain songs that I heard as a kid that "play" back in my mind randomly. This is this case with a lot of things. I tend to playback things over and over again in my mind. Sometimes for months, sometimes for years, some of them for my whole life. These things that I play back in my mind range from certain situations that I've been in the past, to pieces of music that I enjoy, to parts from movies, to well... Many other things. Does this sound more like OCD to you guys than Aspergers? I've read quite a bit on OCD and these symptoms sound like OCD. I'm not quite sure if these symptoms are present in most people with Aspergers or not.

Sounds like echolalia... though some of that stuff is a little beyond the scope of the diagnosis.

I get this a lot. But my main problem is repeating what other people have just said. I mimic it pretty well these days as if I am asking to confirm that I heard what they said last and understood it... not always successful...

Look it up though, from what I understand there is a high incidence of people with Asperger's that have it. If it is caused by it I don't know.

Definitely!

It's just another fun thing about being on the spectrum. Obsessive and sometimes obsessively repeated things in our brains!

Sure thing! Giant memory banks + echolalic tendencies + running monologue/dialogue in head = definitely.

Yup! Very often. Especially musical patterns from favourite songs or just stuff I play on the piano. Sometimes I will repeat what somebody just said on TV. Odd now that I think about it... lol. OCD or AS? I think this is common in both cases.

Yes this happens to me. I can remember some songs when I was a kid because I liked them a lot.


Doesn't everyone get a song stuck in their head though?
I have seen my mother sing a song she heard from a long time ago.
I have seen people at my last job singing a song and they say they have that song stuck in their head and they can't get it out.

I always have these stupid quotes from movies stuck in my head that I hear over and over again in my head (I don't literally hear them). Anybody else have this specific problem?

Haha, I remember in second grade, I was sent up to the blackboard to do this really easy math problem... but I couldn't do it, because I had this song ("Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck...") relentlessly stuck in my head, just repeating and repeating like it was drowning out all other thoughts. A group of kids left to go to some computer lab while I was up there, and by the time they came back I was still up there. Kind of humiliating, but funny in retrospect.

(singing:) "Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me..."

That's the one

yuppers.

i think it's more than just getting a song stuck in our heads.

for me it's more like the same thought or part of a thought just keeps repeating like a stuck record. like i can't finish it. or i keep going back to it. it happens a lot when i'm trying to go to sleep.

I tend to get hung up on phrases, music lines, and occaisionally bits of movies for hours at a time.

i get the same thing but i sometimes do it so much it triggers headaches as well

Yep. Certain words, phrases or sounds will repeat in my mind ad nauseum.

Words alone with repeat and repeat....it gets tiresome at times. Then there's the music or tv Shows...Wow...

Sometimes I'll do it out loud, but mostly it's quiet (in my head).

Yes, I even remember asking my mother when I was a small boy whether this is normal. Bits of conversations (or imaginary conversations) that I've had keep bobbing up again and again, as well as thirty-year-old nonsense catchphrases from my schooldays. Certain sounds will trigger a playback - the new Zurich trams announce the arrival at a stop with a bell that sounds like the bell at the beginning of Bing Crosby's "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (you can hear it here), so I've got that song playing in my head almost every day.