Do aspies gravitate towards metal? (the music genre)

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_FNIlcdtWE[/youtube]

A video that I just made.

What are your thoughts on this theory?

Not as far as I've observed, or at least no more so than any other group of people.

Edit:

Just for the sake of disclosure, I make that observation from the perspective of someone who has played in a metal band and was instrumental in building a local metal scene.

I'm in a library so I cannot watch the video you've made.

Do you mean the material or the music genre?

Because I cannot say the autistic/aspergic people I know gravitate towards either.

Material wise I prefer soft and warm things, music wise anything that doesn't have much drumming. When I listen to music with a lot of drums it makes me feel like I'm going to have a panic attack.

Well, I haven't watched your video, but I can tell you that I don't gravitate specifically toward metal in any sense. I don't dislike all metal by default, but it's rare that I hear metal I enjoy, as I'm often turned off by some of the macho posturing and incoherent rumbling that's so popular in many of today's metal sub genres. A lot of it seems to be very masturbatory with the use of distortion, growling and double bass drum pedals, to a point where it just seems to my ears to lack any kind of nuance. That's not to say that everything falls under that category, but the main contrast to that in recent years seems to be over-produced pop that just happens to have distorted guitars, which doesn't do much for me either.

But if you throw in some comedy lyrics, that's a different story.
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I saw the title and thought to myself.....

I don't think autistics are magnets, no.....

Well I'm a big metal fan, and a good friend of mine who is also aspie is as well. It's a very fun genre for people who like to have a head full of useless trivia. Lots of subgenres, lots of bands with long and intertwining histories, just a ton to discover really. I'm learning about awesome new bands every day.

I mean the genre you silly people. lol

Speaking for myself, no. Never liked it much. It's just too boring and superficial for me. That's mostly the hair bands though. The older stuff is alright, like Led Zep and Black Sabbath. Thin Lizzy. Bands like those. Heavy metal devolved into something I couldn't appreciate, eventually.

as an aspie myself, i don't care for the metal genre. i listen to pop, r&b, rap and rock(old)

I don't care for metal or rap -- they're both just noise to me.

I like 'Metalheadz' a lot but that's dnb, not metal music.

When I was an early teen though I did like Pantera, Ministry, Thrill Kill Kult, Suicidal Tendencies, Metallica, older Anthrax (really more skater thrash but some metal in it). As for truly hair-metal or 'All hale the Norse gods' type stuff - not so much my thing.

Even now like with progressive rock - loved Tool, love Muse, Porcupine Tree or Steve Wilson occasionally hits one out of the park, however the Nightwish and Evanescence type stuff..... , wrong energy.

I tend to listen to more metal than anything else. Mostly power metal bands.

I'm quite puzzled about why so many people here always seem to be speculating about how this or that is common to people with Aspergers or coming up with their own conjectures (hardly worthy of the term "theory) about what causes Aspergers or Autism.