Music therapy for autism and as

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How many of you autistics and aspies Love music and singing I find a great for me like therapy how many we love to sing and have been in Singing programs. I love singing and acting and dancing.

hi, jen, i sing in the local chorale.

The Squid does not sing. We do however keep an MP3 player with us at all times, and almost require music to do everything. We use it heavily as a sleep aid. It also lowers our stress levels while we work.

The Squid and I have a lot in common, except I do sing. Apparently not on key though because sometimes I spontaneously burst out in song (along with my MP3 player) at work, which can cause several people to come running toward me at once begging me to stop!

Well, the Squid must admit that at least 98% of our music do not have lyrics. The other 2% have lyrics in another language. We feel instrumental music has more to say than music with lyrics. It can be interpreted in many ways, where words have their meanings, and they are set in stone. Combine this, with the topics most music today use in their lyrics. We simply don't want to hear it.

"Light em up up up on fi-ya!"" The Squid thinks not...

That's really funny because since I started that classical music thread I've been listening to that at work, and I was thinking, man you can't sing to this. I do love both kinds though, the kinds with words and the kind without. I was just thinking I feel very privileged to live in a time when I have access to so much music and to be able to take it with me, and this new classical music thing is amazing, but I want it all! I wouldn't want to have only either one.

Some of musicians today are amazing profound poets. Have you ever listened Regina Spektor or Counting Crows or Modest Mouse or Death Cab for Cutie or The Killers? And that's the short list.

Hey, Jen, who do you like to listen to? Maybe you can come to an opera with me in the fall.

The Diablo Swing Orchestra. That is all the Squid will say. We enjoy their music and lyrics. Jazz, Swing, Classical, Opera, World, and Metal all rolled up into a nice Swedish package. Their music keeps getting better over the years too.

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Ah yes, one of my favourites. Narrow Stairs was both an album that provided a soundtrack to a relationship and the inevitable hard breakup afterwards. There's a few tracks on Anberlin's New Surrender that played on the breakup soundtrack too.

My experience with music is a little strange, I think so at least. I could one day put on a favourite album and not be able to listen to it, because my brain wants to hear something very precise. I was like that this morning and I knew what album it wanted to hear to relax and so I could actually get started with the morning routine. I was thinking a lot about the band and trying my best to just put them out of my mind, but no, I had to listen to their album. And after I did I was able to start the day.

Another time when I was seeing a band that night I couldn't listen to them in the morning. I was cringing at the singer's voice. But I put the album on in the afternoon and could enjoy it more. This was after the singer said I could come in that night and take photos of the band.

I basically listen to specific bands/artists during certain moods or if I have that band's song in my head. If I don't listen to that song in my head I won't be able to relax. So, I usually just listen to the whole album the song is on on repeat.

I agree, there are some great songwriters today. I particularly fond of Dallas Green from City and Colour. But there are many artists I love. I sometimes take the songs too literally and think they about the person who is singing, forgetting that another band member may have penned the song or it's a concept song that is entirely fictional. But I get very emotionally moved by some lyrics and try to work out why the writer wrote the song that they did, that is once I think I have worked out the meaning behind it. Then my friend who is also a good song writer explains the meaning and I get a bit embarrassed for getting it so wrong.

I like to relate certain songs to certain situations in my life too. Even when I know the songs aren't really that serious I still like to relate to them. I've even had a few songs written about me. One indirectly refers to me and one is so clear it's like I'm being accused of something. It's not the most flattering song because it's about me being scared and sad but I still love the writer to death. He never released the song though and the only remaining versions are with him and on my iPad.

I do the same thing - get in moods for something. But I usually listen by playlist, not album or artist.

I love DCFC. Have all their CDs. How'd they get that odd name though?

That's one thing I don't know about them.

Yes, I love singing and dancing!!

I like music very much. Including Death Cab for Cutie!

Yes I love to listen to music and I will occasionally sing to if I feel like it, I mostly dance at party's etc if I am at one but that was more of when I was younger. In find solitude in listing to music and its one of my favourite activitys to with my imagnary partner espicaly when trying to sleep or relax.

the right bouncy music makes me dance in a clumsy emulation of rhythm.

Listening to Nine Inch Nails - The Beginning of the End as I post. I listen to music a lot, although I do not sing or play any instruments (I may, however, soon endeavour to learn to play guitar.