Is listening to the same songs again and again, more common in autistic people?

90% Taylor Swift!!

That's awesome!!

I think everyone needs a little musical obsession.

I've got my own repeats too, can't resist them.

Fixating on a song is not only good sometimes it can be productive thats how I got into playing songs 

My Spotify these days is 90% Taylor swift as people on here can guess 

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Yeah I often wonder what life would be like without music and it's a scary thought. 

I think the calm and relaxed thing is so relevant. I have a 25 year old son and he used to study with his headphones on. I used to wonder how he did it. But now with my recent diagnosis I understand how much it helps.

I've always done this! I can literally listen to the same song all day long, sometimes for days on end and I never get bored of the song.

At school I used to have my hair down so I could have my headphones in my ears (hidden because school didn't approve for some reason) so I could listen to the same stuff all day.

It was fun and it kept me calm and relaxed.

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Yeah I totally get this especially when I find a song I like. I have a favorites playlist on Spotify and sometimes I click the enhance button to get new songs without losing the feel of the music I love, but I've found my mood has to be a certain way for this.

I have discovered lost of artists I have never heard of before this way e.g Jesse Marchant, Andrew Combs, Frazey Ford. 

I also get certain lines from songs stuck in my head that resonate somehow and say exactly how I'm feeling. 

Foals/Spanish Sahara.

The choir of furies in your head/I'm the ghost in the back of your head.

Andrew Combs./Feather

Nothing puts my mind more at ease than watching the wind bend through the tops of the trees.

These little fragments stay with me and feel almost comforting.

Anyone else get this where a certain line keeps looping.

I have always done this. Currently, not literally right now, but most days I listen to the Patience tv soundtrack on repeat. There’s something about it that helps me through the day or helps frame my mind when I study or do chores or am in public. 

If it’s a new song that I can lose myself in and daydream with then yeah I’ll listen to it on repeat because it becomes quite addictive.

Oh yes I do this and my partner does not understand it at all. This is why I love being in the car, just me and the same album or single over and over…. Pure bliss. 

Songs can cause us to understand what we wnat out of life too 

for example i would love one day tj meet someone who I could sing rhe lyrics to paper rings tj and actually feel that I ment it

I like shiny things, but I'd marry you with paper rings
Uh huh, that's right
Darling, you're the one I want, and
I hate accidents except when we went from friends to this
Uh huh, that's right
Darling, you're the one I want
In paper rings, in picture frames, in dirty dreams
Oh, you're the one I want

Yes! It's me my whole life. I fixate on one track and listen to it endlessly,  few hours per day, or whole day if possible,  for weeks or months and I usually pace my room during listening and I enjoy it deeply, every note every instrument in the music. Since my teens I listen to music only on my headphones for this reason - I heard few times from others, that they would vomit if they had yo listen to one track so many times. And I'm also very much inflexible when it comes to genre. I fixate only on one genre and usually one or two artists and I listen their songs like this.

Music also causes me having kind of movies in my head, or I imagine some situations or conversations.  Now im stuck witha scenario of conversation with David Grusch about aliens. But as a teen I had my imagined friends.  I had no real friends although I craved friendships so much, I was bullied a lot and misunderstood. Only my imagined friends understood me and didn't bully me fir oversharong, for example. So music is always very important for me, and I experience it deeply.

That was me with overkill by Colin hay

and it’s me with most Taylor swift songs i listen to her more than anyone else she’s so amazing 

Yes definitely.

I think its a one practical outworking of hyper-fixation. Its kind of sweet, but also at the same time a curse, how we seem to get so much enjoyment out of media in general - TV shows, movies as well as music. I think the baseline level of getting the same enjoyment for neurotypicals is lower 

When I first heard Roger Sanchez - Another Chance, that's the most times I've ever listened to song in a row. I listened to it 35 times in one day! Problem is that I'll now never like that song ever again because I've got too used to it. 

I think so yes

i listened to paper rings 5 times last night followed by blank space 4 times