The BPM on that femtanyl track is pretty high, high bpm music can help us ADHD patients. I find it soothing.

I'm also autistic and always attributed this issue to that rather than ad(h)d, but I did think about this and did notice a pattern. There's 2 things that seem to control whether loud music is acceptable for me or whether it overloads my brain:. It eitther needs to be the single source of sound (i.e. festivals, concerts) or it needs to be fully in my control. Preferably both. I can't handle music playing and people talking over it, because they're two sources of sound that I can't effectively filter. When I'm at a show specifically for the music, I hear nothing but the music and it's usually also music that I enjoy. When I have control over the music, it seems to make it easier as well. When I get overloaded I can instantly stop it, which stops the panic situation when my brain starts overloiding and there's not easy escape from the noise.

Edit: and I also listen to pretty fast/noisy music. I assume it's because my mind gets distracted and starts wandering when there isn't enough going on.

I saw an ADHD influencer recommend wearing ear plugs in public to block out environmental noise to keep conversation directed at you still audible.

I get distracted in public when my ears pick up conversation around me - especially people who are fighting or gossiping and I find it very entertaining compared to the discussion I'm in - so this is something I'd like to try the next time I have a dinner out at a busy restaurant with others.

Editing to add: I just listened to about a minute of the femtanyl song you linked and I realized that I also get in the zone productive with some types of music in which I can't understand the lyrics. I listen to a Pandora station built around Sigur Ros because I can't understand the language lol

The music is music. The noise is noise.

The music you linked actually kinda reminds me of video game music. Like it could have been a background track in Silent Hill or something. I like it.

can relate..love breakcore, dischordant tech death, noise etc. its chaotic but i can control it.

Beats me dude. That fentanyl you shared just stressed me out. Too much going on. By all means, you keep doing you! I'm just too old for that stuff!

(this is all from an outsider, so grain of salt)

• is something like Coffitivity as much of a stressor?
• in the same vein, does Adriano Celentano’s faux English Prisencolinensinainciusol cause as many problems?
• how are you with true noise – white noise, pink noise, brown noise?
• my guess, with breakcore and the like, you know there’s a level of coherency and your subconscious can hear it whereas with crowd noise, not only are you fighting the volume levels, but your subconscious is expecting a level of coherency (triggered by snippets intelligible words, phrases, phonemes) that doesn’t exist and it is exhausting itself trying to “make it make sense” – your mind is attempting to piece unmatched jigsaw puzzle pieces together at very high speed

Does anyone else suffer the noise bad, vibration good paradox? Is it just me?

I'm curious how extreme metal would treat you, scientifically speaking

I can absolutely relate, during my day job I have my speakers running full blast and I am dancing away at my standing desk while in deep focus.

I think part of it is almost sound-defensive where the loud predictable music insulates me from focusing in on small sounds or unpredictability sounds. The techno is on and it's unimportant so I can focus on my work and drown out distractions.

I also think the pace is important for me, it's almost like my brain is racing to keep up with the beat and thus can't afford the distraction of focusing on something else. It can be almost meditative and make the whole world slower and more focused.

I've just given it a listen to this and I love it. I think it works because so many stimuli are coming at your brain so fast, and they're changing to quickly. Constantlyhavint to react to new, changing stimuli is what ADHD brains crave, and I feel tike this music perfectle feeds that need.

I don't know where I land on the spectrum, just know I vibe with the tribe so far. I've been listening to skate punk lately, pretty much exclusively roller skating to Pennywise. It's been really helping my anxiety lately with tourists. Pennywise - All or Nothing

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Idk if I could relax to it, but it helps me focus on certain tasks, like making a magic the gathering deck or painting something. It doesn't seem to help at all when I'm doing stuff on a computer though, just when I'm doing stuff with my hands

I've noticed something similar with music.

This is one that does it for me: https://youtu.be/4edAZvbU5gw

The only thing I could come to, is that it's like it is noise, but not random and unpredictable. It's like organized or controlled noise,if that makes any kind of sense.

Another example of the "noise" : https://youtu.be/forwNINpoVE