Rhythmic Stimming - Stimming with Music - My Autistic NeuroDivergent Experience
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- One of my main stims, since I've been a very, very, young Autistic Person, has been revolving around music: singing, humming, dancing, rhythmically making up lyrics to things- rhythmic stimming.
A lot, throughout my entire life, has been stimming with music, which is literally one of the main reasons I picked the name Lyric, because music is such an integral, and important, piece of my life.
ID: Lyric, a pale skinned nonbinary person with short green, teal, and purple hair with shaved sides and jet black roots is sitting behind a white microphone in an RV with dark wood panel walls. They The words "Rhythmic Stimming" floats in front of them in pale teal and green letters.
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I remember back when I practiced martial arts I would put on music when I was practicing the katas and would flow through the forms in time with the music. It was especially helpful when I would train with weapons(bow staff, katana, scythe, etc.) And I could combine the movements to flow with the beat. Now in a kitchen I'll put music on and flow cooking and the music helps keep me grounded so I don't get too far overextended.
Thank you so much for sharing your own experience. Hope you have a wonderful day!
I can relate. I practice Goju Ryu Karate, and when I practice the katas on my own, I feel empowered to do them at the sound of music. Especially anime music.
Have you heard of Aurora? Music is my main major stim and Aurora's music saved my life. The River, Queendom and Cure for Me are songs that are so very deep and magical and a good start to her music if anyone here is interested. Much love and good vibes to everyone. 💙
YES! Music has always been my special interest since I was a young kid and I never really thought of it as stimming but that's probably why I love it so much! I also have played with flow toys (poi, hula hoops), in fact every night after it gets dark I put on my headphones and grab my hoop and go outside under the cloak of the darkness and hoop away! It's when I feel most alive, and I feel no anxiety in that moment!
I am also late-diagnosed autistic and looking back to my childhood, "hand dancing" to music was my main calming down stim during highschool. I also constantly sing when I'm at home
👏🏼🎼Perfect “Some things aren’t about other people” when you said that I felt Free. Thank you.
Hum, drum, type rhythmically, breathe in rhythms, twitch rhythmically... especially the toes (presumably cos noone can see that) ... often must walk in time to a song, and there is ALWAYS a song playing in my head (if I'm not listening to one from the outside). I totally benefit from listening to and writing music in many ways. I also love skating, dancing, marshal arts patterns, yoga, and chanting with beads. And I also hate going to the doctor! I tried a career in music, but it was too tiring. In my earlier life, music was my social gateway.
I've found stimming to music can be such a great weapon against executive dysfunction and depression. Like I'll be sitting at the computer for hours unable to make myself do the Thing I want to get done. But then I put on music, start stim dancing, and suddenly find myself doing the Thing. I just need to get better at remember how useful it is. 😅🎶💃
Same! I have a couple of playlists I use just for this. It really helps.
Who’ don’t like music it stimulates my mind’s I sing at night to my music definitely part of my autism at 11:00 trun that music up just let it play my mom an Dad A! Trun it down from downstairs why I play it from upstairs love it 😅😄
Most definitely I can relate in D lol ! Have a good night 😇
I often replay music (songs I’ve heard) in my mind, nearly as clearly as if I was listening to the music physically.
I tend to incorporate a lot of hand and arm movement into what I'm pretty sure is music stimming. Either along to the rhythm of the song, or along to the lyrics (which may not follow as steady a beat), my hands weave back & forth through the air almost like they're swimming in the music, or I make grand sweeping gestures with my arms because... I don't know, I guess that's just how my body wants to show it feels immersed in the experience!
Then there's the more "common" stuff like foot tapping & head bobbing, though I usually accompany those stims with squeezing my eyes shut and making fairly ridiculous faces as I mouth along to the lyrics.
I've described it as putting on a one-person silent concert. My roommate has witnessed this many times, lucky him 😂
it's also one of the more accepted stims by neurotypicals (all stims should be accepted but you know, we live in a NT oriented world and in my experience I have to mask time to time to survive) I personally found them helpful to regulate myself in public without having people outside my circle being weirded out or ostracize me.
Music saved my life. One of my earliest memories - as an infant - is of hearing music, and seeing a blue guitar making it. That was in 1967 or so. I was not allowed to play an instrument as a child. I desperately wanted to though...
"NO! It's too noisy. They cost too much! You'll get bored and stop playing it. Blah blah blah"
That's what passed for supportive parenting in my childhood. (Thanks for all the love and support mom and dad!) Anyway, as a teenager - and I mean late teenager of 18 -19 I finally screwed up my courage and got a couple of cheap guitars - I bought an acoustic guitar for $30. Someone gave me a old beat up electric. Wow - I LOVED both, and would sit for hours playing scales. Over and and over and over again. The same notes but in various patterns. I sit and do it while whatching TV. I found it engaging and very soothing, even though I never learned any songs or anything.
Then, college and work came along. I rarely played. My emotional state deteriorated.....
Fast forward 30 years. The mother of all autistic shutdowns had hit 5 years earlier. I was struggling through severe, unrelenting anxiety, shame, and a bottomless suicidal depression. My career was in ruins. I had few freinds and was very alone and lonely. But music still soothed me. Driving by a music store one day I decided to go in and look at guitars. Dozens hung from the walls in a special humidity controled room. The fragrance of rosewood filled the air. I sat for a couple of hours playing various guitars. Listening to the beautiful sounds they made. Feeling thier smooth necks and sharp steel strings cutting into my fingers - Playing guitar hurts - in a good way - at least for me. Towards the end of the session I picked up a small acoustic guitar made by a guitar company named Martin. They were founded in 1831. They are located in Pensylvania. They are one of the oldest guitar makers in the world, and they've been owned by the same family for almost 200 years now. I didn't know any of that when I picked up that guitar though. I just knew it's price was $1,500 I couldn't afford to pay for it. Oh well - let's try it anyway....
It was a very simple, plain instrument. No fancy mother of pearl inlays or glossy wood. It was made of Sapiel wood, and it had a subtle smokey fragrance to it. I strummed a chord and.......that instrument rang like bell! It outshone every other instrument I'd played that day - some costing over $5,000. I called the salesperson over, hagled a little over the price, and walked out the door with it after paying $1,000 I didn't really have for it. It's the best money I've ever spent. I've played that little Martin almost every day for the last 7 years. I've learned hundreds of songs, and now perform with it for audiences. I've earned back it's cost several times over, but that's not the point. At my lowest point, when I felt life and the world was nothing but uglieness and pain, and wanted to end it, that instrument beckoned me:
"No, it's not. Life is beautiful. There's music in the world. Embrace me. Press my strings. Strum. Sing!
Sing about your pain and lonelieness. Your anger and diaspointment and shame. Sing about your heartbreak. Sing about your hoplessness. Sing about your confusion. Sing about your fear and rejection.
Pray with me and you'll find redemption"
I never feel more at peace than when making music. I've never felt more connected or appreciated by neurotypical people than when I play my music for them. It's an absolutely essential part of my life. Without it, I'd truly be lost.
That's such a cool story! I hope for some inspiration like that.
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YES. YES. YES! I LOVE music! I listen to my favorite songs on repeat. I sing, I even play multiple musical instruments. I move to music. I stim to music, and even show emotions that I often feel uncomfortable with showing. If I’m listening to one of my most favorite songs, sometimes I feel safe enough to just cry. I don’t listen to music I can relate to when I’m mad. I throw on one of my most favorite songs that I know will make me feel better.
Music, movement, percussing EVERYTHING, singing always, but sometimes in my head to give others a break.
All of the above, music is life
I have done everything you listed except flow arts. I am in a Celtic singing group. I loved roller skating when I was younger. I did weird dances at home. I have done folk dancing. I hum or sing under my breath in public to music.
The weird thing is that I can't listen to music all the time because it overstimulates me. So I don't listen to music much but I love music.
I love rocking while listening to music. I've been doing it since I was four, YEARS before I was diagnosed
I used to sing all the time but after adhd meds and smoking and losing more regular practice, I find myself too self conscious to sing again even to myself. I try to push through sometimes but it still doesn’t feel like before. My inner critic goes crazy
I thought my listening to a song I really love over & over was just me being weird. I'm 53 & was just diagnosed with autism at 48. Looking back I see a ton of things I did point out autism. I really enjoy doing the same thing over & over. If I can add music to doing whatever it is. I am at my happiest moments. I get totally lost in what I'm doing, & I lose track of time completely zone out. Someone can call my name over & over & get no response from me. It's not until I stop or they touch me or even get into my field of vision do I responsed to them.
Been in from work just now fully watchin yess I do play the same songs on repeat every day 🙃😇
great video, i also stim to music, it makes me feel relaxed and calm and helps me emotionally. One thing i don't enjoy is music in shops as there is either too much else going on or i feel i can't stim to it because i don't knopw if there are abilits in the shop
I make music and then listen to it on repeat for hours.
FOREST GREEN is my favorite stim!
I be only 1 singing here at home are work.. I listen music all the time at late at night who don’t listen wit music ppl nothing an part of my autism have a good evening hun 🙂😇
I love listening to the same songs over and over again. It's sometimes a stim because i'm depressed, so while that's not good i'm not hurting anything either. I'll also (when happy) randomly make up lyrics and sing them, I didn't realize that was stimming! I can't sing good at all either lol.
Music an Amazing Tool 😎 🎼💗
Oh man thought I was the only one
I just know that I have to be listening to SOMETHING every time I get up to do whatever. Work, make lunch, go to the bathroom, anything. I have at least three pairs of Bluetooth earphones now. I craaaaave the stimulation.
Lyric you are SO excellent at describing feelings!!! Thank you so much, you're an excellent teacher 🤌
Im so glad to now know that other people stim with music too!! Even since I was little I have sung all the time, even when Im not aware of it. Ill only realize it when someone around me comments on it 😂😂😂
Yea lam actually autistic if listen to every night an day I be driving my mom an Dad crazy win they tryin to sleep having blasting all night wnis about trun it off as we speak have a good evening again 😅😄
Ohh I all commend at midnight cuz I had to work the next day iam Work now whis I off tomorrow I all ready talk on here have a good 1😉😇
Yeah I do this!
You and I share the birthdays 😃, share the same health struggles, and here now rhythmic stimming with the same struggle story of losing vocals to sing... 😄 Hi 👋
music is my main stim especially metal edm and breakcore.. anything where theres just too much happening. idk its a bit weird that i like those genres since i get overwhelmed by audio stimuli really easily. i guess music is like, a more controlled environment ?? bizarre
Is it rhythmic stimming to clap your hands on your legs while listening to music?
I can listen to the same songs on repeat.
So me listen my music lol now I listen my music at night part of my autism it relaxes my mind lol why fall in love wit my bf Corey 😇😊 yup
I grow up around music all of my life that how know how to sing good my real singing voice not the one ppl here over iG Live have a good 1 again 😇hun
I wish I could sing
@@jcheri9948 aww honey singing take a lot of work.: been singing all of my life in real life been resting my singing voice doin my regular job workin in hospitality, an social media networking aww to cute lol precise not CZcams every day but win I be off on Thursday 😇
I sorry I didn’t finish I was getin annoyed on social media take some singing lessons I took music therapy all of my life an u get it all about the key an how u hold the melody they will teach u sweetheart have a good midnight 😇☺️🤎
I paste every now then my mom an Dad was be like wat I be pasting for some times my autism an love to sing to 😅yup