Skibz888 wrote:
I don't know about "weird", but I do find that I'm frequently drawn to overtly complex music, such as progressive rock, math rock, etc., stuff with lots of time changes, key changes, unconventional structure, etc. I find I get enveloped in it much more than typical 4/4 pop/rock music and I often love deconstructing lengthy songs and figuring out how they're structured.
ASPartOfMe wrote:
Before there was the autism explanation there was New Wave to show me that my weirdness and fun could be compatible
It should be noted that New Wave pioneers (and overall geniuses) David Byrne (Talking Heads) and Gary Numan are both diagnosed with Asperger's, yet their music was not as overtly "weird" as Devo or The B-52s. David Byrne had a really awkward, jerky stage presence and made a lot of strange yelping noises in his music, whereas Gary Numan was more quiet and withdrawn.
Numan's wife, a clinician who has a Aspie brother spotted the traits, He did an online test
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/books/review/david-byrnes-how-music-works.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://archive.bebo.com/BlogView.jsp?Me ... 3959484999
http://hub.contactmusic.com/news/numan-convinced-he-has-aspergers_1060637As for David Bryne
http://www.davidbyrne.com/archive/here_ ... ardian.php
"For three years, Byrne has been keeping a journal on his website, by turns revealing and thought-provoking, always with more questions than answers. "I was a peculiar young man," he wrote last April. "Borderline Asperger's, I guess."
"I'd only heard of Asperger's a few years ago," Byrne says now, "when a group out of Stanford proposed a spectrum that goes from autism to Asperger's to sort-of-good-at-math. I thought, 'Wow, I see a lot of myself in that.' Not that I was good at math, but I could be very focused on certain projects, and painfully shy - although I'd get up on stage, and then be incredibly shy the minute I stepped off.
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And it fits that at some point, after a couple of decades, it wears off."
I thought that the bits of therapy I've had, and making an effort to be more social, really paid off, but it could just be that it wears off by itself"
Bolding mine and rolling eyes mine.
The above pretty much speaks for itself. But he and they helped me and other "different" people a lot at the time and that is what reaaly matters. n
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