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I don’t mind crowds at concerts generally although if the venue is particularly busy, it can annoy me a bit. I usually relax once the band I want to see are on and I can just concentrate on the stage. I don’t really have any light sensitivity problems at gigs either. In my preferred genre (metal), it’s inevitable that there will be flashing lights throughout the show so I know to expect it and just put up with it when it does happen.

Last edited by AlanMooresBeard on 27 Apr 2019, 12:02 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I am O.K. with concerts except for the socialising aspect. Loud music & strobes put me in a hypnotic zone , I am in my own little world and if anyone gets an elbow from getting too close that's their problem. I only have one mission at a Punk gig and that's stage diving , I'm unstoppable once I found the security weak spots I've been thrown off stage by quite a few famous singers

I stopped a gig as well and was unceremoniously evicted from the venue - 40 seconds into the first song

^^ Seems to get rarer and rarer, that kind of enthusiasm at gigs. Most of the ones I've been to in the last few years, me and the couple of mates I go with (all getting on for 50) are the only buggers who even dance. For the young-un's it seems the done thing is to stand there like a statue waving your phone around.

I'd have been honoured if anyone had actually liked our band enough to go in for a bit of stage diving. The nearest we ever got to that was at one of the little bars at Bradford Uni' - the only place to set up the band meant having the entrance to the bogs at the back of the "stage", so you'd get pissed-up students on the verge of puking staggering through the middle of the band at random points during a song! As for stopping the set after 40 seconds; I did do that once, kind of - got through the intro of the first song, went up to the mic to start my, erm, "singing", and passed out half way through the first line (the quality of our performances was inversely proportional to the quality/cheapness of the venue's ale! )

^ I should own up and admit stage diving was past tense , my knees can't take it anymore and the last time I tried I realised I'm a 40 odd year old bloke weighing 16 stone jumping on to a bunch of kids who don't shave yet

^ If you feel old, consider the fact that my last (and only) attendance at a live music concert was T Rex in 1972...

I wish I did realise it - I don't notice my body complaining when I'm lost in "dervish" mode on the dancefloor, but I sure as hell do for most of the following week! I always wonder what the young, mostly student, audiences make of me and my mates showing up. Not that they're ever unfriendly or anything, but we do rather stand out.

A few years ago, at the end seeing a great band that had me bouncing around, I felt a tap on my shoulder, and a beautiful female voice paid me some compliment or other (presumably for my enthusiasm rather than my choreography!) I turned to thank her, and saw; (a) she was early 20s at the oldest, and for a moment, incredibly pretty, and (b); her face slowly losing its prettiness and distorting with disappointment and horror as my wrinkly, grey-bearded visage sank into her visual awareness. It would have made a wonderful "Eeeew!" GIF for your collection!

(I do hope she didn't have mates there who witnessed this - making a move on a guy older than your Dad might be a rather hard in-joke to live down for your whole Uni' career! Poor lass.)


Strangely enough, I find that I enjoy them more as I'm getting older - accepting my autistic traits more, I guess; I was too up-tight about (not) fitting into peer groups when I was younger, and in hindsight, it quite often spoiled the experience.

Can I buy you a b................

That makes me envious dude

I want to be the Queen, just like Margaery Tyrell! (before Cersei blew her ass up).

Do you want to be the male equivalent or exactly the same ( bits and all )

I've always wanted to be a pretty lady.

If I had a body like Margaery Tyrell I doubt I would leave the house for a while while I self indulged in self exploration and solved the riddle of who has the strongest orgasms , male or females.

"Yes sweet girl, my mother taught me"

I practically am a Tyrell. My hometown is a "city of roses", like High Garden.

I guess I'm actually more like her brother though.

"A sword swallower, through and through!"

Yes, that's her! She did it to you too, then?

I'd hazard a guess and say most men on the spectrum know this look , I've had it a few times when my drunken attempts at chat up lines crossed the line of common decency - " Hi, I've been undressing you with my eyes all night long, and think it's time to see if I'm right."