when i am learning something difficult i repeat it constantly every one in my house knows paganini´s 5th note for note as it took me 8 years and counting to learn my wife hates django rienheart now there are sometimes bits of him on adverts and stuff and she cringes
i do the same on the song thing....... I'll repeat a song about 10 (or more) times before going off to another one...
Marcia, my handwritting is really bad considering all the hours my mom made me practice. At one point in time a teacher suggested i should give up all together. But mine lies in the fact that i have a motor skill impairment that messing things up..... I was so glade once i was able to type things
...I quite simply accept that my son's writing skills are never going to be great, but as long as he can achieve legibility - which he can - then it's not a big deal. As far as I am concerned it is related to his autism and that's just the way he is.
Exactly. I remember that when I was in grade school I got all kinds of flack - no one could understand why I excelled in most ways and yet had such bad handwriting ... I remember feeling really hurt that my teachers and parents thought I was "rebelling", and failing in that area (and a couple others) intentionally. I remember 3 or 4 years that were very painful - after that it was smooth sailing, I think I had a 3.8 average through high school.
As for the music thing, I very seldom listen to music outside of work, it's often painful. Sometimes I will put on something I like though, and repeat the CD over and over for a day ... or a few days. It's odd, repeating the same thing over and over makes it disappear into the ambient noise for me - alleviating the silence without being intrusive. I usually just put the TV on low, but commercials come on and are louder and annoy me.
I used to often listen to songs or albums on repeat, but have been consciously trying not to do that for a while now because I noticed that after a while the work in question would lose its luster and this would distress me greatly because I found some favorites no longer doing much for me emotionally. Of course, if I really want to hear something, I don't torture myself by denying it, but I am paranoid of overplaying music. Yet to find a good middle ground, I suppose.
Definitely. It tends to go in phases -- like I'll be obsessed with one song for a few days. I also listen to (the same bunch of) radio dramas over and over again while going to sleep.
I used to put CDs on repeat while writing college papers. I once listened to the pink CD of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness for 20 hours straight while writing a paper that was due the next day.
I remember seeing an interview with Billy Corgan where he said he once mixed a song for 38 hours straight. :o
If a song is of high enough quality that I would want to listen to it frequently, I can put it on replay for several hours and it doesn't bother me.
Yes. I like Fireflies by BB
For me it's entire albums. I've been listening to the same iron maiden record over and over for months now, and have to force myself to listen to something else every so often. When i do try something else, even if it's one of my favorite bands... i'm disappointed. What's even stranger is that i'm actually getting tired of the record (despite the fact that it's a masterpiece), but i still can't stop listening to it.