Spotty01
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Another musical thread. This is half an autism spectrum thread, half an off-topic thread.
For as long as I can remember, songs have been really, really "sticky" for me. All I have to do is hear a song once, whether it's the first time or the hundredth time, and the next thing I know, the lyrics I can remember or the tune alone starts playing on repeat on my head. The only real way to "remedy" it is either listening to the radio at the same time so that my mind can no longer pick up the tune correctly or "singing" the lyrics and matching tune to a completely different song until it replaces it. For me, this is both a gift and a curse; sometimes it's a good or catchy song I get stuck on my head, other times, it's one that makes me want to never listen to music again or one that puts me in a really depressed mood for a while and make me feel like I'm going to cry at every given moment for no real reason.
I can't tell you a single day in my life where some song wasn't stuck in my head; I usually wake up with a new one every day for some bizarre reason. Once, I woke up with a song stuck in my head that I haven't heard in years. However, on some occasions, I have songs stuck in my head not for minutes or hours, but for days on end (as of now, this has been stuck in my head since I last heard it on the radio... a couple of days ago); the only way I've found to put an end to that is listen to it on YouTube until I just grow tired of it and the earworm ends up being replaced after a little while.
It's definitely a strange trait I have and I'm wondering if this might be an aspie trait? Not the entire "constant earworm" concept, but the ability to pick up tunes and lyrics very easily and remember them for years, even if you've only heard it once (I've known the lyrics to this song ever since I first heard it back in my grade-school days). And, another question out of sheer curiosity: what is the longest amount of time you've had a single song stuck in your head? For me, it would be a country song I heard back in elementary school (I think) and it would occasionally come back, over and over again, up until I found it again in mid-high school. While it wasn't consistently that single song, if there was nothing else, it would be that one... for about six years straight.
That is all.
For as long as I can remember, songs have been really, really "sticky" for me. All I have to do is hear a song once, whether it's the first time or the hundredth time, and the next thing I know, the lyrics I can remember or the tune alone starts playing on repeat on my head. The only real way to "remedy" it is either listening to the radio at the same time so that my mind can no longer pick up the tune correctly or "singing" the lyrics and matching tune to a completely different song until it replaces it. For me, this is both a gift and a curse; sometimes it's a good or catchy song I get stuck on my head, other times, it's one that makes me want to never listen to music again or one that puts me in a really depressed mood for a while and make me feel like I'm going to cry at every given moment for no real reason.
I can't tell you a single day in my life where some song wasn't stuck in my head; I usually wake up with a new one every day for some bizarre reason. Once, I woke up with a song stuck in my head that I haven't heard in years. However, on some occasions, I have songs stuck in my head not for minutes or hours, but for days on end (as of now, this has been stuck in my head since I last heard it on the radio... a couple of days ago); the only way I've found to put an end to that is listen to it on YouTube until I just grow tired of it and the earworm ends up being replaced after a little while.
It's definitely a strange trait I have and I'm wondering if this might be an aspie trait? Not the entire "constant earworm" concept, but the ability to pick up tunes and lyrics very easily and remember them for years, even if you've only heard it once (I've known the lyrics to this song ever since I first heard it back in my grade-school days). And, another question out of sheer curiosity: what is the longest amount of time you've had a single song stuck in your head? For me, it would be a country song I heard back in elementary school (I think) and it would occasionally come back, over and over again, up until I found it again in mid-high school. While it wasn't consistently that single song, if there was nothing else, it would be that one... for about six years straight.
That is all.
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