Research Question: How does music as therapy impact/help those with autism?

Music therapy for Autism Spectrum Disorder, Youtube, May 15, 2020

Music Therapy for Autism Spectrum Disorder: No Effect in Randomized Trial, Youtube, May 15, 2020

Adult With Autism Shines in Music Therapy, Youtube, May 18, 2020

Music as the Window into The Autistic mind: Jonathan Chase: TedxSalem, Youtube, May 18 2020

In my waves of emotions I start to drown.

This pain that I can't explain,

this pain that won't go away.

Handfuls of pills that I take everyday

Medications and drugs, why wont it fade away?

 Where can I go? What can i do? How can I rid my feelings of being so blue?

No one understands, they don't know what i'm truly going through.

But I when I close my eyes and start to listen

I find it eased my current condition.

Drowning out the negativity and pain,

Giving me a sense of comfort and hope that i can't explain.

Lyrics with so many meanings and messages

Melodies that can find their way into my soul

because Music speaks to me as a whole

You can say its my mood medicine.

All my pain just flew away

Then I can finally say “i'm okay”.

Poem - Overcome Small Rain

Feeling of sadness hits me like lighting 

Didn't know that my last sleep would become this exciting  

Knowing that being alone won’t make it any easier

Wondering what can I do?

Depression is a upcoming rollercoaster

Living in this world isn’t what i imagined with ugly people like this 

People running their mouths like a dog chasing a cat for fun

Gossiping like they’re bored out of their minds

But still don’t understand what is holding me back.

So I listen to the Vibrations..

Where is it coming from?

I’m still in my bed thinking what the hell 

Overhearing the loud rhythms and lyrics from the other room

The beats, the melody, the meaning comes to me

My Soul comes to a realization

Music.. 

What is it about Music that makes me feel so relieved when I've been feeling so lost

Dopamine is running through my brain 

So i go on with my days thinking 

Will forever music be my medication? 

Answer: The auditory stimuli cause the brain to release chemicals that tell your body to either dance or be still (this can slow your heart rate, and lower blood pressure and stress); happy or (insert any other emotion that music makes you feel).

There are four colors in the drawing below: yellow for self-confidence, blue for the mind, red for the body, and green for the balance between mind, body, and emotion.

 Denial
 anger
bargaining
 depression
 and numbness   
  with no sight of acceptance.
As day by day goes by, Time passes and there is still no light shown.
just another inch of hope lost.
No way out, no way around it, now way above nor beneath it. Just blank walls and blank spaces.
Loneliness begins to force its way in with its nothingness Somehow becoming everything to me.
A void brings silence and with silence brings a lacked attempt to make something known.
I can’t make my emotions be known with silence. While
My negative emotions run rapid, I manage to put my focus on my old, white, iPhone headphones sitting on my dresser. I sit there for a second contemplating on what to do next. I walk over to my dresser proceeding  to pick up my headphones. I think of my childhood wishing I could go back. I play my favorite childhood song, “put your records on” by Corinne Bailey Rae. I immediately feel a wave of positive nostalgia. I begin to think of my father picking me up early from pre k when I cried during nap time because I had an ear infection and to make me feel better he decided to get me a box of cookies. I remember the time my father taught me how to ride a bike without training wheels during the sunset at a park then afterwards we got ice cream. I think of the time I went to the beach excited for my father to teach me how to jump waves. I remember being upset when he told me to wait for a couple of minutes so that he could take a break from jumping waves himself. I remember being extremely petty and purposely making him feel bad about not immediately teaching me how to jump waves forcing him to Teach me anyway without any breaks. I begin to remember when my father was known for being one of the most selfless, caring, and kindness man at my elementary school. I remember when he was a father figure for some of my classmates. I began to take influence in my younger self and I feel the euphoria I once had throughout everyday life. mainly because of my father.
 The song stops.
My smile slowly fades away as all those emotions I had three minutes ago start to reappear.
I remember when my childhood immediately stopped 4 years ago.
I remember my father has not been present on earth for the past 4 years.
I realize that younger influence on me was an illusion.
I realize I will never feel the way I use to.
I realize acceptance of my trauma is a fairy tail and numbness is the end result.
I realize healing is just an illusion.

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It feels as happiness awaits tomorrow 

With great hope that it may arrive soon 

Oh where oh where is the great tune 

I try to not let it get all in my head 

But it just won't budge, it remains to spread

I wish to find a solution by noon 

Oh where oh where is the great tune 

I walk the streets again once more 

I hear something new so I begin to explore 

There is something I’m missing in this typhoon

Oh where oh where is the great tune

 

A sound I hear, a sound with great feeling 

All my wounds begin to start healing 

All my life I've had great despair 

Oh where oh where the great tune is right there