Music

Interestingly I can love live gigs too, and house/trance clubs. Some say how can you do that as an autistic person, my answer is always that I retain control, I can leave if it gets too much. As a kid I saw Genesis with Peter Gabriel as a support act !!!! that is one amazing memory. 

MoS seguing Tocatta and Fugue in D into Faithless’s Insomnia sounds absolutely AWESOME  

I like your tastes, classical is my goto too, though in the right mood I love prog rock, indie, house, trance. . At the moment Im enjoying a cd of suites by G.P.Telemann. My filing of cds is by era, then within that by composer. I also have relatively inaccessible boxes of cds I don’t often listen to too.

My set of the Mozart piano sonatas are by Mitsuko Uchida, who is ypurs? They are arguably the finest works of their type ever composed (just my opinion). 

Hi Hergé, the self-acceptance is really important and getting comfortable just being ourselves, as you say. 

TheCatWoman said:

had a record player but few records and my Dad playing Wagner was a sign that bad bad stuff was on the horrizon.

Ah man, I’m sorry to hear that TheCatWoman. I can only imagine how horrible that must have been.

I heard 'Born to Try' by Delta Goodrem at work today, I love the song but today it really touched me as she keeps singing 'I was born to try' - really touched me by meaning I can try things 

No I think you're normal, I'm the weird one, I rarely listen to music and I've always had a bit of a problematic relationship with it, apart from the radio it was never really part of childhood, we had a record player but few records and my Dad playing Wagner was a sign that bad bad stuff was on the horrizon. I never really knew what music I liked and just went along with what others liked to fit in.

The other thing is that I like to listen to music alone, I want to be surrounded by it for it to be the only thing I sense, this is something very difficult to achieve as people see music playing as a sign of wanting to be social and it isn't for me, then they start wanting to play something different which just upsets me, causing me to withdraw and retreat into myself.

I hate background music, if I were a musician I'd feel insulted that what I'd created was just being used in such a way.

I also like very little music from my past, it brings up to many bad memories, or I never liked it to begin with and run away almost screaming inside at the horrible racket going on around me.

I was always fascinated by the music from the era I was born; Late 70's/Early 80's. It began with The Police, and pre-Fame U2. Now, it emerged into the Garage-Post-Punk scene. After I graduated, in 2001, I bought a CD copy of Still - Joy Division - at a Music Shop in Coleraine. I was, suddenly, transported into a New World.

A, newly-created at the time, Amazon account helped. Then, I discovered Magazine and Teardrop Explodes. Now, in the era of Spotify, I learned about The Fall, Swell Maps, Gang of Four and Wire. Plus, SpizzEnergi; the Number One in the first ever Indie Chart in 1979 with 'Where's Captain Kirk?'

The irony was, however, that those bands were more influential in the US Scene than the UK Scene.

I'm constantly listening to 'We Own the Night' from Zombies 2 I don't know why but it makes me feel better about work, as it says 'we own the night' it's like saying I own the personal development plan' I'm on at the moment, plus the line 'she's the alpha, she's the leader, she's the one to trust' helps to remind me my supervisor is doing what she can to help me at work to be able to pass the personal development plan, so I can move onto more tasks in the future

I am at ease with "unique".

I think I've used many words to describe my feelings of "otherness", I tried out oddment for a while but I don't really think that's right either and quirky just don't fit as I'm not that whimsical.

We are all different, just like everyone else.

I think I'll just try and gain some sort of self acceptance and just be me?

Interesting! I hadn't come across that acronym before,  

Where I can, I try to reclaim the word from its corrosive use to invalidate or 'other' us. As an antidote, I hold in mind a sense of weird as mysterious, powerful and unconventional.

"W.E.I.R.D." reminds me of the psychology literature demographic acronym:

• Western,
• Educated,
• Industrialized,
• Rich, 
• Democratic.

"..."WEIRD" in psychology literature oversimplifies the global diversity of human behavior."

"...WEIRD was initially a useful reminder of the bias toward certain demographics in psychological research."

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Music is really important to me and has been since infancy. It can ground, energise and soothe me.

I am a dedicated Radiohead fan. I also really like The House of Love, Doves, Ride, Sigur Ros and Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, among others.

My preference is for music which engages me - where there is quite a lot to immerse myself in sonically.

Back in 1986, I bought my first hi-fi separates system. I still use the same amp and speakers!

I have been lucky enough to see lots of bands and solo artists live. Somehow, I navigate that type of sensory and social experience better than everyday life.

As withLonehare12 , music has at times been a lifesaver for me.

Certain songs anchor me right back to specific moments in my life, and to specific people, and I find that comforting.

Weird, Hergé? Lots of us are by that measure, and weird is good.

Yes, I have music on much of the time. In my case, mostly classical music from a large CD collection (gathered from charity shops over the years). I like to keep my CDs in alphabetical order of composer, and I tend to play then in that order as well (at the moment, I have just started in on a 6CD collection of Mozart piano sonatas). But there are certain pieces that sort of get stuck in the CD player whenever I get to them. Franck's Violin Sonata (in the cello setting played by Jackie Du Pre), a collection of Satie's piano music, and Tavener's Akathist of Thanksgiving are some that come to mind.

I've had I Can't Defeat Air Man by Team Nekokan stuck in my head all month

So there’s this song, but it’s practically impossible to find because the artist doesn’t like streaming services. I have it because I own his CD. It’s Futari by Tatsuro Yamashita. It’s perfect. Whenever I hear it I fall into a state of blissful calm like no other.

Bassist playing along to Futari

'Blister in the Sun' by the Violent Femmes cam on in a restaurant I was in yesterday, I had to sing along, under my breath, no choice whatsoever.

Yeah I remember that

I can get hung up on songs, when white ladder by David Gray came out i managed to put my wife off him for life , I'm still not allowed to have it on when she's around.