Published on 12, July, 2020
Is it an autistic thing to have a hugely varied taste in music, or do our tastes just diversify more as we get older? My own taste in music is very varied from heavy metal through 80's and 90's music to Trance music. For me it's not so much about the genre of the music but whether or not I like a particular song or the music to that song. Personally I like quite upbeat songs as opposed to the slower tracks, regardless of what type of music it is. What is other people's experience? What do you listen to? Do you tend to only listen to one category of music or do you prefer variety?
Novelty seeking is positively related to Impulsive sensation seeking from Zuckerman's Alternative five model of personality and with psychoticism in Eysenck's model.[4] When novelty seeking is defined as a decision process (i.e. in terms of the tradeoff between foregoing a familiar choice option in favor of deciding to explore a novel choice option), dopamine is directly shown to increase novelty seeking behavior.[5] Specifically, blockade of the dopamine transporter, causing a rise in extracelluar dopamine levels, increases the propensity of monkeys to select novel over familiar choice options.
Autism would be a corrolated factor, due to increased novelty seeking -- that is seeking out sounds sensations that are pleasurable, and avoiding those that are seen as harmful, which would activate the 'disgust' mechanism.
Intelligence in combination with temporement (high in opennes and exploration) could be a factor in why some people listen to a variety of music. It requires you to overcome your own internal biases and be open to something foreign - the same behaviour required when taking on opposing viewpoints.
When we speak of music, we must differentiate between the music itself, from the packaged and marketed product. As I get older I have started to move away from listening to "commercialised" music, to music that is more honest (spontanous) in its approach.
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I am wanting to learn more about the intricasies of how music is structured and arranged. More specifically, I want to better understand the characteristics of each instrument. Would someone know of where I can learn this information? Resources like this, https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Academy/Instrumentology
I dont know but my disgust mechanism is violently responsive to Cliff Richard
He’s clearly not ‘doing it’ for your dopamine levels! To be fair he doesn’t do it for mine either!
Oh that one! Personally I don't mind it but I can see how it could irritate some people, the singing is rather whiney! Are you allowed to wear noise cancelling headphones at your work?
:-) To be honest I'm quite surprised that nobody did do exactly that! I haven't had the time to go again since so I really hope that it's been fixed!
Oh no! I don't think I've heard it as I usually listen to CDs rather than the radio. I'll have a listen and see what I think.
In that buzzing light situation I'd probably have been driven to stand on a chair and either remove the offending bulb, or if it wasn't removable smash it to stop it buzzing... yes, I've really done that, in extremis.
:-) The sounds I absolutely can't stand is squeaky sounds! I can handle one of my litluns crying but when they both start at the same time, which thankfully is rare, I can't handle it! I'm not a fan of thrash metal either, though sadly my cousin loves it! Chairs being pulled across a hard floor always get me, badly! My 5 year old was doing that on Saturday, repeatedly! I was at an Autism Social Club a couple of months ago and one of the lights was faulty, causing it to make this really irritating buzzing sound, the room was full of 30+ Autistic adults, It was driving us all absolutely up the wall!
I am not exaggerating either. It's like garlic to a vampire when I hear that"song"
Same with pneumatic drills, babies crying, and thrash metal. Also violins set my teeth right on edge. I do have to physically leave. I usually have to leave Superdrug because of their sound choices. Cannot bear it.