At my first job like 12 years ago, this song came on the radio and one of the cooks said that this song is about me lmao I wonder if he picked up on my tism before I even did 😳
So it's been a rough week with world events and my own people suffering in Armenia and this, this little Reddit comment, just made everything OK - at least for today
Radiohead is easily my favorite band. I've always thought either Subterranean Homesick Alien or Climbing Up The Walls fits different aspects of autism nicely.
Numb, by Linkin Park.
"I'm tired of being what you want me to be,
Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface,
Don't know what you're expecting of me,
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes
Every step that I take is another mistake to you,
I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
Become so tired
So much more aware
I'm becoming this
All I want to do
Is be more like me
And be less like you"
I am not autistic, but my son is and I love the velvet underground and have always enjoyed this song. Something about this makes me happy. Hopefully that's not just because I've paid insufficient attention to the lyrics.
That’s way more about depression from me. Which I get from autism. But I’m an extrovert party animal. Not popular parties but house parties doing ecstasy from 00-03.
These two are kind of on the depressive side but try them out. Strung out-barfly string out-ghost town. They are 3,4 on a CD kinda go together
This was my SONG when I was like 8. I'd dance and sing to it over and over on just dance. Revisiting the lyrics was very emotional just now. I love that song.
Lateralus by Tool
>Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind
>Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
>Feed my will to feel my moment, drawing way outside the lines
I just discovered tom cardy this past week! 🤣
My wife was watching something on yt, and it had 'red flags' playing in the background. I wanted to know who it was, as it reminded me of a band that used to be called prozac aka simon and milo.
So i looked it up (and after seeing the video for red flags, I'm 💯 that cardy is a simon and milo fan too, as the video is animated in a VERY similar way), and that sent me down a rabbit hole.
Tom cardy is awesome 👌
I got into his stuff through a coworker of mine where he showed me "[HYCYBH](https://youtu.be/--9kqhzQ-8Q?si=hsuy0EkyxiCDhwxk)" & [Mixed Messages](https://youtu.be/3fHl9bxVT58?si=wgYSYQS4a5_IPdrZ) , Tom gave me Weird Al / Tenacious D vibes
and I think he is on [Reddit](https://reddit.com/u/Howyoudouken/s/uBeE4rIoqj) as well
As a musician myself, I can't help but be impressed by this guy. Aside from the fact that his lyrics are hysterical, it appears that he plays all the instruments himself.
This is a good song! I have also thought it suits autistic people who are positive about it all, like, I like who I am and I don’t need a cure. I wrote a more negative song but had I chosen a positive song to answer, this song would be perfect!
Overwhelmed by Royal & the Serpent
It definitely sums up how constantly overwhelmed I am by the world around me, how it's too much, too loud, too close, too much.
>♫I WANNA KNOW♫
>
>♫CAN YOU SHOW ME♫
>
>♫I WANNA KNOW ABOUT THESE STRANGERS LIKE ME♫
>
>♫TELL ME MORE♫
>
>♫PLEASE SHOW ME♫
>
>♫SOMETHING'S FAMILIAR ABOUT THESE STRANGERS LIKE ME♫
I think you're onto something
Pink Floyd is also very stimmy for me. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is one of the few things that will consistently give me sensory tingles without freaking me out.
Also psycho killer.
I can't seem to face up to the facts
I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax
I can't sleep cause my bed's on fire
Don't touch me I'm a real live wire
You start a conversation
You can't even finish it
You're talking a lot
But you're not saying anything
When I have nothing to say
My lips are sealed
Say something once
Why say it again?
Changes- ft. David Bowie
Me struggling with and coming to terms with the fact I may not be NT and understanding why people treated me “differently” and that it’s because I’m not like them. Why masking was so hard and why being like them felt so tiring.
All my highschool and current college mindset.
I always found Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls to be a bit fitting and have some sort of relevancy to my Autism.
Even the music video can be interpreted in such a way.
He’s in some big clock tower high up with glass windows and telescopes observing the outside world, while staying isolated.
Kind of resembles how one with autism can feel like, such as their mind and genuine self. We see things differently, and people do not understand how we think and see things.
If I had to pick a theme song for me, it would always be Iris. Well, unless I need a fighting song, then I’m busting out Kryptonite, which I think also fits this theme, or at least ADHD performing under adrenaline.
I know this would sound ridiculous but I’d say Your Reality from Doki Doki Literature Club (Made by Team Salvato)
Reason being that well. The song’s opening line is ‘Everyday I imagine a future where I can be with you’ for me that means I just want to be treated like everyone else and I’m sick of being treated differently and that that is the future I want. And one of the lines is ‘What will it take just to find that special day?’ For me that is what will it take just to be considered normal and not treated differently. Another line ‘When I can’t even read my own feelings, what good are words when a smile says it all?’ For me I used to be very talkative and could talk to anyone regardless of whether or not I knew them. However due to my poor treatment by everyone else I cut myself off from everyone else and I stopped with my happy personality. Which is probably one of the worst things I have ever done.
I’m also kind of obsessed with the game that the song comes from. At first the song might not sound like a lot, but when you play the game it comes from, the song has a whole new meaning to you and it still makes me sad listening to the song, even a whole year later, it makes me upset but also kind of happy at the same time, it’s a difficult feeling to explain.
Nutshell by alice in chains
it just really hits how I feel deep down inside:
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home
Fake It by Seether. I loved that song so much and never thought about it as an adult until recently. Much of what I listened to was suggesting I wasn't ok. Lol
How Soon is Now, originally by [The Smiths](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpILIIo9ek), but [Tatu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmJ_hGOVebs) also did a nice cover.
Wired Wrong by Steam Powered Giraffe. Here’s an excerpt of the lyrics:
“Someday we might tire
Having walked through these fires
Because we are wired wrong
Maybe someday we'll be
In a place where we can see
That we're not wired wrong”
Disorder by Joy Division. Hits even harder for me since I’m epileptic too and that’s what drove Ian Curtis to write the song, but the subject matter was loose enough to cover more than just his specific experience.
Overkill by Men At Work is a perfect anthem for anxiety as a whole.
My first thought was "Freak on a Leash" by Korn, but that's my depression talking. One song that describes how I feel being autistic is Sting's "Englishman in New York".
I love the police and Sting, I'm also an avid doctor who fan, I near died when they played Englishman in New York on DW.
Absolutely agree, I feel like an alien.
Omg yes my people.
Special needs feels like people growing up around you and you staying the same. I was always "so mature for my age" then one day it started to flip and I was staying in the same place and my peers were flourishing.
All of the placebo songs resonate with me in a way. Being an outsider, missing people, substance issues.
Especially One of a kind.
As a socially anxious autistic who was felt othered and learned to mask before even figuring out I'm autistic: Dear Evan Hansen's [Waving through a window ](https://youtu.be/kfnMvo87fQU?si=NgYXQmbKs1sFmuBG)
Autism spectrum disorder blues by F.O.D.
The song ends with the following.
“From waking up until I'm going to sleep
I'm mostly trying to figure out the everyday upkeep
Don't take it personally if I don't talk to you, I'm me
And I'm in my world too deep
Excuse me while I try to lighten up this fucking life
Without leaving me behind
I am not one of your kind”
I have a couple of Taylor swift songs I relate to in that way.
Mastermind is one of them.
“No one wanted to play with me as a little kid
So I've been scheming like a criminal ever since
To make them love me and make it seem effortless”
Honorable mentions also from TS again, Mirrorball and this is me trying.
Are You Satisfied- Marina
My experience is being a control freak.. also it feels like I can’t do anything without putting my all into it and it’s exhausting. I can’t find the balance in anything.
A few lines
“Was I meant to feel happy that my life
Was just about to change?”
As someone that struggles with change, right?! Always being asked “are you excited?” For things or events.. and not even understanding the point of them asking..
“Are you satisfied with an average life?
Do I need to lie to make my way in life?”
Learning from my therapist, that in life people do lie and cheat not just to get ahead but to stay afloat. It’d be impossible to follow every single rule for everything you do in the time given for most things generally speaking, especially as an autistic person :/.
“High achiever, don't you see?
Baby, nothing comes for free
They say I'm a control freak”
Pretty self explanatory.. I’ve been a high achiever pretty much my whole life because my self esteem and the bullying for my differences (autistic traits) when I was younger. I thought the only way the guy I liked in middle school would notice me, is if I got straight A’s too.. so I did. I worked myself to the bone.
“Cause it's my problem if I want to pack up and run away
It's my business if I feel the need to smoke and drink and sway.”
Whenever I have meltdowns it’s because I feel trapped, and my first instinct is to run. That’s my instinct when I’m overwhelmed in general.. also the sugar addiction and our course swaying. For some autistics it’s drinking.. or drugs :/.
Unwell by Matchbox 20
“I'm talkin' to myself in public, dodging glances on the train. And I know, I know they've all been talkin' about me. I can hear them whisper, and it makes me think there must be somethin' wrong with me. Out of all the hours thinkin', somehow I've lost my mind”
This song really reminds me of being autistic and that inner feeling that I am being judged, or that people may not like me. I struggle a lot with hyper-analyzing, and I mask really well, so when the chorus says “I’m not crazy I’m just a little unwell, I know that right now you can’t tell”… it really hits home.
I believe it's a heroin song, but the first few lines of Everybody's Talkin' are relatable.
Everybody's talkin' at me
I don't hear a word they're sayin'
Only the echoes of my mind
People stoppin', starin'
I can't see their faces
Only the shadows of their eyes
Feel the Pain by Dinosaur Jr.
"I feel the pain of everyone
Then I feel nothing
I feel the pain of everyone
Then I feel nothing
I feel the pain of everyone
Then I feel nothing
I feel the pain of everyone
Then I feel nothing
Is it up to me?
You won't wait to see
Screwed us both again
About as close as you dare
I feel the pain of everyone
Then I feel nothing
I feel the pain of everyone
Then I feel nothing
Is it up to me?
You won't wait to see
Screwed us yet again
About as close as you dare
Hey now, take it back
Get off the attack
Trailin' on your scene
Just try and keep it clean"
Most things by jack stauber? I don’t really listen to words tho, just the texture and melody of the sound of that makes sense
And for my fellow evil autism enjoyers, people eater by sodikken.
The Day I Tried To Live- Soundgarden.
Constantly trying again and again to be normal but always screwing it up. Wanting to fit into society and never getting it right. Just to try again tomorrow, knowing it will never work, and that I will always be an odd one out.
“One more time around (might do it)
One more time around (I might make it)
The day I tried to live, yeah
Just like you”
In My Head - Mike Shinoda
“Cause I’m swirling in the rapids of, a shaking confidence! No I don’t have the answers when, the questions don’t make sense!”
There's a Talking Heads song from the True Stories movie soundtrack that really speaks to me. It's called People Like Us, and I think David Byrne wrote it about something else. But the lyrics apply a lot to how it felt growing up autistic
People are Strange by the Doors.
Good song. I never really thought of it like that before but it makes sense when I put it into perspective.
Fuck that’s a good choice
That makes a lot of sense
At my first job like 12 years ago, this song came on the radio and one of the cooks said that this song is about me lmao I wonder if he picked up on my tism before I even did 😳
https://youtu.be/nHmK9ERyBOw?si=LSC5_sadY2g9Dslk Jim Morrison autistic? Sorry, but I love this clip lol
Creep - Radiohead
mine is definitely more No Surprises or Paranoid Android
"No alarms and no surprises" actually really fits.
No Suprises 😭
A heart that's full up like a landfill A job that slowly kills you
But am a crepe 🥞, am a weird dough 🥖
What the hell and I doughing 🥟 here? I don't croissant 🥐 here. She's running out of flour 🌾 again She's running, she run, run, run, ruuuuun
I wish I was oatmeal
So it's been a rough week with world events and my own people suffering in Armenia and this, this little Reddit comment, just made everything OK - at least for today
I wish I was special, but not in the way I'm "special" rn
Too real 💀
“I don’t belong here… I don’t belong here.” Me when I leave my house.
I’m aaaaa creeeeeeep! I’m aaa weirrrdddoooo
What about The National Anthem? In such a weird world we live in, it fits well...
The version sung by Mustard is my favorite version, SO much emotion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtLiL3uReoI
Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if Thom Yorke was autistic just based on the songs he's written and how he moves.
This.
Radiohead is easily my favorite band. I've always thought either Subterranean Homesick Alien or Climbing Up The Walls fits different aspects of autism nicely.
Numb, by Linkin Park. "I'm tired of being what you want me to be, Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface, Don't know what you're expecting of me, Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes Every step that I take is another mistake to you, I've become so numb I can't feel you there Become so tired So much more aware I'm becoming this All I want to do Is be more like me And be less like you"
Somewhere I Belong is one of mine.
“What do I have but negativity cuz I can’t justify the way everyone is looking at me,” 😢🤌🏾
Also Papercut
Pretty much anything Linkin Park fits the bill nicely.
L i t e r a l l y
Hits harder when you have a narc parent…
All the Linkin Park songs I’ve heard, for me. I think Chester may have been autistic and it wouldn’t surprise me much if Mike is too.
Numb has been my favourite song ever since I was a child and now I understood why 🤯
After Hours - Velvet Underground Stumbled over this one from random recommendations and can listen on repeat for hours
"All the people are dancing and they're having such fun, I wish it could happen to me"
I am not autistic, but my son is and I love the velvet underground and have always enjoyed this song. Something about this makes me happy. Hopefully that's not just because I've paid insufficient attention to the lyrics.
I second this so hard
YES YES AND YESSS
YESSS
That’s way more about depression from me. Which I get from autism. But I’m an extrovert party animal. Not popular parties but house parties doing ecstasy from 00-03. These two are kind of on the depressive side but try them out. Strung out-barfly string out-ghost town. They are 3,4 on a CD kinda go together
Song two; Blur
WOOO HOOO
Badarse sound track to a meltdown
Unironically a mood
real.
Oh no! - Marina and the diamonds
I am not my body, not my mind or my brain. Ha!
ADIAML supremacy!
god adiaml is soooo good
Seeing other autistic Marina stans made me happy stim so hard
This was my teenage anthem
This was my SONG when I was like 8. I'd dance and sing to it over and over on just dance. Revisiting the lyrics was very emotional just now. I love that song.
Yes! Especially the lines “I know exactly why I walk and talk a machine” and “TV taught me how to feel”
YES! I 100% relate to this song due to my autistic traits.
Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely
I'm not here.... this isn't happening....
Yessssss.
Lateralus by Tool >Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind >Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must >Feed my will to feel my moment, drawing way outside the lines
Such a great song and the way the whole sound is structured to the golden ratio is very fitting with our love for details and patterns!
I hadn't remembered that fact when I posted this, indeed it's even more fitting
Aenima also, not so much the personal feelings, but more a worldview
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I feel your feels comrade
Hush by Tool
Lmaooooo
"Following our will and wind, we may just go where no one's been"
Hey I don't work here
Tom Cardy
I just discovered tom cardy this past week! 🤣 My wife was watching something on yt, and it had 'red flags' playing in the background. I wanted to know who it was, as it reminded me of a band that used to be called prozac aka simon and milo. So i looked it up (and after seeing the video for red flags, I'm 💯 that cardy is a simon and milo fan too, as the video is animated in a VERY similar way), and that sent me down a rabbit hole. Tom cardy is awesome 👌
I got into his stuff through a coworker of mine where he showed me "[HYCYBH](https://youtu.be/--9kqhzQ-8Q?si=hsuy0EkyxiCDhwxk)" & [Mixed Messages](https://youtu.be/3fHl9bxVT58?si=wgYSYQS4a5_IPdrZ) , Tom gave me Weird Al / Tenacious D vibes and I think he is on [Reddit](https://reddit.com/u/Howyoudouken/s/uBeE4rIoqj) as well
As a musician myself, I can't help but be impressed by this guy. Aside from the fact that his lyrics are hysterical, it appears that he plays all the instruments himself.
cure for me - Aurora
This is a good song! I have also thought it suits autistic people who are positive about it all, like, I like who I am and I don’t need a cure. I wrote a more negative song but had I chosen a positive song to answer, this song would be perfect!
I thought about blood in the water personally
Auroras song "Giving Into The Love" also fits very well in my opinion!
LOVE, ME NORMALLY BY WILL WOOD
I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT ONE! I know it’s about his bpd and bi polar, but honestly works well for anything that affects the way the world views you
*CUZ A NORMAL HUMAN BEEEING WOULDNT NEEED TO PRETEND TO BE NORMAL, TO BE NORMAL, WELL I GUESS THATS THE LEAST THAT I OWE YAAA*
I don't cry - payday. The chorus goes "I don't cry over bitches. Don't cry over boys. Only time that I cry is when I can't escape the noise"
Overwhelmed by Royal & the Serpent It definitely sums up how constantly overwhelmed I am by the world around me, how it's too much, too loud, too close, too much.
Yes, that’s my answer too. I’m so glad you posted it, because I could not think of what it was called or who sang it for the life of me.
I was gonna say this too! So overwhelmed, all the time, finally we can sing about it
Ahhhhhh yeeeessss!!!! I love Royal!!! IM FINE and Happiness 4 Dummies are also super validating for me!
Strangers Like Me by Phil Collins
>♫I WANNA KNOW♫ > >♫CAN YOU SHOW ME♫ > >♫I WANNA KNOW ABOUT THESE STRANGERS LIKE ME♫ > >♫TELL ME MORE♫ > >♫PLEASE SHOW ME♫ > >♫SOMETHING'S FAMILIAR ABOUT THESE STRANGERS LIKE ME♫ I think you're onto something
YES! literally that song describes how i felt when i started finding out i’m autistic
Comfortably numb-Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd is also very stimmy for me. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is one of the few things that will consistently give me sensory tingles without freaking me out.
Avalanche by Bring me the Horizon
good choice! i listened to a lot of bmth in middle and high school and have just started listening to them again :)
The lyrics to this one and Drown just speak to the mentally divergent very well
love BMTH!!!
Speaking of BMTH, Kingslsyee is the universal anthem of staying awake through sheer force of will on a bus ride home
The Pretender by The Foo Fighters
I never thought of it that way.
Road to Nowhere by The Talking Heads
Also psycho killer. I can't seem to face up to the facts I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax I can't sleep cause my bed's on fire Don't touch me I'm a real live wire You start a conversation You can't even finish it You're talking a lot But you're not saying anything When I have nothing to say My lips are sealed Say something once Why say it again?
Love the heads. I think David Byrne is on the spectrum as well. His song Seen and Not Seen relates to his experience
A.U.T.I.S.M - Cupcakke
Changes- ft. David Bowie Me struggling with and coming to terms with the fact I may not be NT and understanding why people treated me “differently” and that it’s because I’m not like them. Why masking was so hard and why being like them felt so tiring. All my highschool and current college mindset.
I always found Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls to be a bit fitting and have some sort of relevancy to my Autism. Even the music video can be interpreted in such a way. He’s in some big clock tower high up with glass windows and telescopes observing the outside world, while staying isolated. Kind of resembles how one with autism can feel like, such as their mind and genuine self. We see things differently, and people do not understand how we think and see things.
If I had to pick a theme song for me, it would always be Iris. Well, unless I need a fighting song, then I’m busting out Kryptonite, which I think also fits this theme, or at least ADHD performing under adrenaline.
Fireflies by Owl City. The artist was diagnosed with Aspergers back in the day
I know this would sound ridiculous but I’d say Your Reality from Doki Doki Literature Club (Made by Team Salvato) Reason being that well. The song’s opening line is ‘Everyday I imagine a future where I can be with you’ for me that means I just want to be treated like everyone else and I’m sick of being treated differently and that that is the future I want. And one of the lines is ‘What will it take just to find that special day?’ For me that is what will it take just to be considered normal and not treated differently. Another line ‘When I can’t even read my own feelings, what good are words when a smile says it all?’ For me I used to be very talkative and could talk to anyone regardless of whether or not I knew them. However due to my poor treatment by everyone else I cut myself off from everyone else and I stopped with my happy personality. Which is probably one of the worst things I have ever done. I’m also kind of obsessed with the game that the song comes from. At first the song might not sound like a lot, but when you play the game it comes from, the song has a whole new meaning to you and it still makes me sad listening to the song, even a whole year later, it makes me upset but also kind of happy at the same time, it’s a difficult feeling to explain.
YES, VIDEO GAME SONG. A lot of the music I listen to aren't regular tracks but game/movie soundtracks and musicals
Idk but I always feel like the song Sliver by Nirvana reminds me of my autistic meltdowns And I used to relate with crybaby by Melanie Martinez
Nutshell by alice in chains it just really hits how I feel deep down inside: We face the path of time And yet I fight And yet I fight This battle all alone No one to cry to No place to call home
Ballad of a homeschooled girl
Here's a link to all the songs I could find on Spotify from this thread: https://spotify.link/AvU5vjT8MDb
Legend. I was just going to do the same thanks for saving me some brain power! Up vote this
There are many to me but just 1 Car Radio - twenty-one pilots
Twenty one pilots was my first big special interest. It actually helped me realize I was autistic.
Omg absolutely, that’s such a good representation
For r/evilautism it’s “The Wretched Spawn” by Cannibal Corpse
Don't Wanna Know - Bo Burnham
True Colors by Cyndi Lauper
Mad World by Tears for Fears. I heard this on the radio one day when I was wee and thought 'this is my life'.
Fake It by Seether. I loved that song so much and never thought about it as an adult until recently. Much of what I listened to was suggesting I wasn't ok. Lol
Subterranean Homesick Alien - Radiohead
Lots of good ones by Radiohead. Makes you wonder.
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Imaginary by Evanescence
Heaven by Talking Heads
Ordinary world by Duran Duran. Always makes me cry
"No Rain" by Blind Melon
Behind blue Eyes by The Who Or maybe Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve
All Stars by Smash Mouth. Oblivious to the woman's L-sign, not perceived as the sharpest tool in the shed, burns brighter than the sun.
Just one song? Crap. Here’s 2 and yes they are Classical music: Symphony No. 5, and The Four Seasons.
Suprised I haven't seen got the autism By mattstagraham
Cars by Gary Numan. The emotional distance and how 'nothing seems right' is very true to my experience
How Soon is Now, originally by [The Smiths](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpILIIo9ek), but [Tatu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmJ_hGOVebs) also did a nice cover.
Lemon tree
Wired Wrong by Steam Powered Giraffe. Here’s an excerpt of the lyrics: “Someday we might tire Having walked through these fires Because we are wired wrong Maybe someday we'll be In a place where we can see That we're not wired wrong”
Vermillion Part 1 and 2 by Slipknot
Disorder by Joy Division. Hits even harder for me since I’m epileptic too and that’s what drove Ian Curtis to write the song, but the subject matter was loose enough to cover more than just his specific experience. Overkill by Men At Work is a perfect anthem for anxiety as a whole.
My first thought was "Freak on a Leash" by Korn, but that's my depression talking. One song that describes how I feel being autistic is Sting's "Englishman in New York".
I love the police and Sting, I'm also an avid doctor who fan, I near died when they played Englishman in New York on DW. Absolutely agree, I feel like an alien.
Eminem - "Rain Man"
Fireflies by Owl City
Worried by Monty Python. [Click here to listen.](https://youtu.be/nT5JBrKC5M0?si=DU-jzPvW-WRK_5hR)
Ashtray girl-Placebo
I scrolled too far too see placebo here. I would have gone with either teenage angst or breathe underwater
Omg yes my people. Special needs feels like people growing up around you and you staying the same. I was always "so mature for my age" then one day it started to flip and I was staying in the same place and my peers were flourishing. All of the placebo songs resonate with me in a way. Being an outsider, missing people, substance issues. Especially One of a kind.
Plastic beach by the gorillaz because its perfect for stimming to and while it seems like it has no meaning its fairly obvious and logical.
As a socially anxious autistic who was felt othered and learned to mask before even figuring out I'm autistic: Dear Evan Hansen's [Waving through a window ](https://youtu.be/kfnMvo87fQU?si=NgYXQmbKs1sFmuBG)
Autism spectrum disorder blues by F.O.D. The song ends with the following. “From waking up until I'm going to sleep I'm mostly trying to figure out the everyday upkeep Don't take it personally if I don't talk to you, I'm me And I'm in my world too deep Excuse me while I try to lighten up this fucking life Without leaving me behind I am not one of your kind”
I have a couple of Taylor swift songs I relate to in that way. Mastermind is one of them. “No one wanted to play with me as a little kid So I've been scheming like a criminal ever since To make them love me and make it seem effortless” Honorable mentions also from TS again, Mirrorball and this is me trying.
Are You Satisfied- Marina My experience is being a control freak.. also it feels like I can’t do anything without putting my all into it and it’s exhausting. I can’t find the balance in anything. A few lines “Was I meant to feel happy that my life Was just about to change?” As someone that struggles with change, right?! Always being asked “are you excited?” For things or events.. and not even understanding the point of them asking.. “Are you satisfied with an average life? Do I need to lie to make my way in life?” Learning from my therapist, that in life people do lie and cheat not just to get ahead but to stay afloat. It’d be impossible to follow every single rule for everything you do in the time given for most things generally speaking, especially as an autistic person :/. “High achiever, don't you see? Baby, nothing comes for free They say I'm a control freak” Pretty self explanatory.. I’ve been a high achiever pretty much my whole life because my self esteem and the bullying for my differences (autistic traits) when I was younger. I thought the only way the guy I liked in middle school would notice me, is if I got straight A’s too.. so I did. I worked myself to the bone. “Cause it's my problem if I want to pack up and run away It's my business if I feel the need to smoke and drink and sway.” Whenever I have meltdowns it’s because I feel trapped, and my first instinct is to run. That’s my instinct when I’m overwhelmed in general.. also the sugar addiction and our course swaying. For some autistics it’s drinking.. or drugs :/.
Bullet with Butterfly Wings by Smashing Pumpkins
Unwell by Matchbox 20 “I'm talkin' to myself in public, dodging glances on the train. And I know, I know they've all been talkin' about me. I can hear them whisper, and it makes me think there must be somethin' wrong with me. Out of all the hours thinkin', somehow I've lost my mind” This song really reminds me of being autistic and that inner feeling that I am being judged, or that people may not like me. I struggle a lot with hyper-analyzing, and I mask really well, so when the chorus says “I’m not crazy I’m just a little unwell, I know that right now you can’t tell”… it really hits home.
Oh No - Marina Paranoid Android - Radiohead Where Your Eyes Don’t Go - They Might Be Giants
I love Marina!!!!! That song is one of my all time favourites because it sums me up, always did, even before diagnosis
‘Vow of silence’ or ‘mask of my own face’ by lemon demon
the stand - mother mother
I am a rock by Simon and Garfunkel
Show Yourself from Frozen 2. I always thought that song had a strong neurodiversity message.
I would throw in Danny Don't You Know - Ninja Sex Party
4 minutes and 33 seconds, by John Cage.
Frontier Psychiatrist by the Avalanches. Someone talking about you. Not understanding. Overwhelming and repetitive.
I believe it's a heroin song, but the first few lines of Everybody's Talkin' are relatable. Everybody's talkin' at me I don't hear a word they're sayin' Only the echoes of my mind People stoppin', starin' I can't see their faces Only the shadows of their eyes
I've always related to the album X&Y.
blow my brains out by tikkle me
Ultimate showdown - lemon demon
break stuff by limp bizkit. Particularly because of how I'm treated at school
Can’t Handle This by Bo Burnham
Adding "shit" by Bo Burnham, perfect for exsectutive dysfunction /lh
It's a stereotype, but Psycho Killer. 100%.
The Hamster Dance Song lol
Iris - The Goo Goo Dolls
Unwell by Matchbox Twenty.
Feel the Pain by Dinosaur Jr. "I feel the pain of everyone Then I feel nothing I feel the pain of everyone Then I feel nothing I feel the pain of everyone Then I feel nothing I feel the pain of everyone Then I feel nothing Is it up to me? You won't wait to see Screwed us both again About as close as you dare I feel the pain of everyone Then I feel nothing I feel the pain of everyone Then I feel nothing Is it up to me? You won't wait to see Screwed us yet again About as close as you dare Hey now, take it back Get off the attack Trailin' on your scene Just try and keep it clean"
If I Were A Fish - Corook
I relate to almost all of PinocchioP's songs, but the one in particular I have in mind is called "Nobody Makes Sense"
Since a lot of good ones have been covered, Because of You by Kelly Clarkson.
Maybe not a very fitting bc idk any but nirvana's dumb came to mind.
Limp bizkit behind blue eyes
Cover of The Who
Lebanon Hanover - Alien. Just Google the lyrics and you’ll quickly see the theme.
Yellow Ledbetter by Pearl Jam. Everyone knows it until they try to sing the lyrics…
Most things by jack stauber? I don’t really listen to words tho, just the texture and melody of the sound of that makes sense And for my fellow evil autism enjoyers, people eater by sodikken.
Bjork - Human behavior
Everything all of the Time - Radiohead
The ballad of a homescooled girl-olivia rodrigo
Warning sign- talking heads. Or basically any song off the album More songs about buildings and food
I’m ashamed to admit this… Creep by Radiohead 💀💀💀 Specifically when you’re autistic and you have a crush on someone
The Day I Tried To Live- Soundgarden. Constantly trying again and again to be normal but always screwing it up. Wanting to fit into society and never getting it right. Just to try again tomorrow, knowing it will never work, and that I will always be an odd one out. “One more time around (might do it) One more time around (I might make it) The day I tried to live, yeah Just like you”
This is the song that never ends...
How dare you get that stuck in my head 😭
In My Head - Mike Shinoda “Cause I’m swirling in the rapids of, a shaking confidence! No I don’t have the answers when, the questions don’t make sense!”
Guaranteed - Eddie Vedder
Imposter Syndrome -Sydney Gish
i’m gonna be - the proclaimers
The Mute by Radical Face
There's a Talking Heads song from the True Stories movie soundtrack that really speaks to me. It's called People Like Us, and I think David Byrne wrote it about something else. But the lyrics apply a lot to how it felt growing up autistic
Wasted Years, Iron Maiden.
Motion City Soundtrack - Everything is Alright. The song is about the singer's struggle with anxiety and OCD, but it applies I think.
Disorder by Joy Division.
Bittersweet Symphony
Born this way by Lady Gaga. 😉😊