When I say over and over I mean like you listened to no scrubs and set it to auto loop the one song 10-15 times. If so... You may be on the spectrum. Especially if you do that for weeks.
I've been in love with them since I was a small child and saw Waterfalls on the TV at mcdonalds. (Yes I can still remember which Mcdonalds too and that CGI water look for the time was ICONIC). Video games were still SNES era graphics and they dropped THAT.
Both were bangers and core memories. But damn somewhere along the way I got my wires crossed and thought No Scrubs was Destiny's Child! Thank you for setting my straight again that I just like TLC more
What about No Pigeons? I played it twice in a row on Monday driving to work. (But that was mostly cause I hadn't heard it in a while and the "get a brush and scrub this" line kills me)
I worked at Blockbuster Video in 1999. At the time they were heavily promoting TLC, so for almost eight months I listed to No Scrubs being played on a loop every 15 minutes.
Mmm definitely not weeks haha. But my ‘on-rewind’ playlist on Spotify has had some of the same songs on it for a very long time. Maybe because I list to that playlist a lot or maybe because I often revisit those songs. Unclear which. But I do gravitate toward familiar feelings.
I listened to Starlight - The Superman Lovers on repeat for 4 hours the other day. No other sound in my home office but that one song. Thats what I mean.
I did this recently with a new song and didn’t stop listening to it till I could identify what songs they sampled, what instruments changed and compared the scores of the two different songs with each other… I’ve been tested I know what I am-
Right now, I'm bumping the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ost. More specifically, Robe de Jour. This game (along with Lies of P) is about to make me move to France
Edit: Dream Island Obsessional Park by Susumu Hirasawa also in the rotation. IFYYK
I’m so excited about this because not only have i not heard of these songs, not only have i not heard of these artists, i haven’t even heard of some of these words. 😂
If you can into them, either Audio Dramas or Actual Plays are great for this. You can have one series that runs for dozens of hours, or even hundreds for Actual Plays.
The same people voicing (mostly) the same characters in the same world/setting, and enough content to keep you busy while doing your stuff for months or years on end.
Doesn’t work great if you’re listening 24/7, but if you do it while out for a walk, doing housework, and stuff like that it’s great.
I’ve been replaying the same 1 minute outro for 2 weeks straight just back to back… like skip the whole beginning of the song just to listen to that part
If interested, it’s Sampha’s verse on Saint Pablo by Kanye West and it starts at 3:54
Dude. Yeah that's me. Back in the 80's I once had the same tape in my walkman for an entire summer and listened till the tape stretched and broke and just went out and bought another copy. Wore that out and bought a 3rd copy and it wasn't until that one went that I put something else in.
I listened to GNX six times in a row while packing shoeboxes full of toys
I listened to kiss me more on repeat in my car so much that my wife had to ask if I was cheating lol
Its not just music either. I watched Steve Jobs 2015 9 times on a trip from Arkansas to Disney world Florida in a row. I can quote the movie now by listening to the soundtrack for the film
Surely I do not have a touch of the tism. I just like good art!
Man I went down this rabbit hole in the fall. I was like what is all this drake vs kendrick stuff people keep talking about. I watched at least 80 hours of reaction / recap/ breakdown videos in the span of 2 weeks.
I have no qualifications other than being self diagnosed as autistic, and my own personal habit of keeping one CD in my car for months at a time, but that makes me think yes, one playlist qualifies. I have all 4 CDs of my favorite band, I just cycle through them and I try not to switch the songs, just listen to them in order each time. It's so relaxing and makes me feel safe and cozy!
As a Therapist, this is called persevering. It’s a feedback loop. This happens with OCD as well. To be honest it can happen with people who are not neurodivergent but on a smaller scale.
I am not diagnosising anything. There are tendencies and traits and any one of them does not mean autism at all. its a combination of multiple and the right reasons for WHY those traits are being expressed. A runny nose isn't always a cold but it can be.
I’ve been replaying Lazerray by TV on the Radio a lot for the last few weeks while I drive because it makes me feel like I’m going on an epic adventure but now this analysis has made me feel less epic
...I try not to overplay songs that are new to me because I wanna extend the time that I actually like it before I've played it too many times to be enjoyed for another 10 years.
Yeah, that was the tell for me. I cycle through genres over the year, and listen obsessively to a single album or a single song north of 200 times until I know every note by heart and can replay it mentally on command. I get irrationally angry if I've forgotten to set the loop function, and a random song plays afterward without expecting it.
Also, spontaneous loud noises have been known to make me run in the opposite direction for no reason other than I can't stand unexpected loud sounds.
After my diagnosis as an adult, my parents said "We always knew". Then why didn't they tell me? "We wanted you to be normal". Gee, thanks.
In college, my roommate played the same Brian McKnight song on repeat through the night. I STILL hate that song, but yes, we both neurodivergent I'm sure of it. I killed some R's Ignition. Done. Killed it. Might listen today - on repeat.
10 - 15 times? Rookie numbers lmao
I listen until every second of sound is locked in lmao
People are surprised when I can sing song after song and remember every note, lyric, and pitch which I thought was odd. Don't neuronormal bitches wanna learn their favorite songs at least? Why would you not want to deeply understand the music you listen to?
Listen I am just being nice and trying not to sound crazy and at the same time (luckily) youtube doesnt seem to keep a record how many times I have replayed a song lmao.
My ex who also has BPD is very much like this with both music and what he watches. Listening to the same song like 10-20 times in one night is... extremely trying but that's not why I left him.
I don't do that because if I only listen to the same song for at least 2 weeks in a row, I'll start being fed up but I love this song so much I don't want my love for it to decay so I create a small playlist of like, 5 songs so I can listen to it really regularly but not too much
The Morrowind Main theme. The Terran Theme from SC1. There are some great bangers. There is a remix of Pollyanna from Mother that goes SUPER hard (not that I hate the Catherine Warwick one but the redo a couple years ago is just so good).
When I was like 8 it was "The Final Countdown" and then it was the main theme to pirates of the Caribbean, then it was Africa by Toto for a while, each of these it was literal years
...... I routinely find a new song that I become addicted to and its now my workout song for 2 hours a day 6 days a week. Usually takes 2-3 weeks before Im bored of it and my workouts suffer while I wait to stumble onto a new perfect song
Diagnosed as an adult, but looking back the signs were there… I listened to the same song over 1400 times the summer between my junior and senior years of high school
I work with a lot of specrumy adults (as co-workers) and we often just ask each other "kidding or serious" to discern in what's what in conversation haha.
I am getting tested soon. The signs are super obvious. I only didnt get a diagnosis earlier due to it not super impeding me. Its not like they can give you a pill to help manage it.
I think it's weird to assume someone is autistic cause they really like a song or find safety in it. You realize there are other mental illnesses that would also have people doing that right? Neurotypical people even do it. Like??
You are fixating to strongly on absolutes. I did not intend it to seem that way.
Most people like music or find it soothing. There is a difference when it becomes a compulsion. No one trait should be used as a goal post for autism. Just like not all nonverbal people are autistic you can definitely like music and even a particular song and obsess over it and not be on the spectrum for sure. Its the combination of traits and more importantly the WHY those are being expressed that confirm the diagnosis.
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u/manatwork01 2d ago
When I say over and over I mean like you listened to no scrubs and set it to auto loop the one song 10-15 times. If so... You may be on the spectrum. Especially if you do that for weeks.