This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to explore daily experiences with music among a convenience sample of 12 autistic adults interning at a video game development lab. Our analysis indicates that music technologies enabled autistic individuals to explore new music and to engage reflexively with personal taste and self-curation. We also show that participants used music to accompany a range of cognitive and emotional tasks. These findings are consistent with broader sociological literature on music-listening habits of typically developing adults and indicate that autistic adults use music to meet their personal needs. Our cohort also described expressly creative and proactive engagement with music, suggesting that habits with music may differ among unique sub-populations of autistic individuals.

这项定性研究使用半结构化访谈在12名自闭症成年人的便利样本中探索了他们每天的音乐经验，这些成年人在视频游戏开发实验室实习。我们的分析表明，音乐技术使自闭症患者能够探索新音乐，并反身享受个人品味和自我管理。我们还表明，参与者使用音乐陪伴了一系列认知和情感任务。这些发现与关于典型的成年人的听音乐习惯的更广泛的社会学文献一致，并且表明自闭症成年人使用音乐来满足他们的个人需求。我们的研究小组还描述了对音乐的创造性和主动参与，这表明自闭症患者的独特亚群之间的音乐习惯可能有所不同。