Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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Many neurodivergent people have found the welcoming nature of much of dance music conducive to their 'fitting in' or 'being themselves' in a way that other parts of society aren't. Many people with ADD/ADHD crave excitement, novelty and stimulation, which they can easily find in club culture.
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Read More »I’m Harold Heath: music writer, former small-time DJ/producer, and life-long club culture fanatic. Earlier this year I was diagnosed with ADHD and suspected autism. Why are we talking about ADHD in DJ Mag? Because I had noticed in the last few years a seeming increase in the number of people within club culture who have been diagnosed with ADHD. This raised a lot of questions for me: what was going on? Are there more people with ADHD in dance music than in other sectors? Is there something about club culture that attracts people with ADHD? And what about DJing? All that list-making, cataloguing and obsessive curating exhibited by many DJs, including me — was it autistic behaviour? A lot of questions; such is the nature of the ADHD brain. But before we attempt to answer any of them, let’s clarify a few terms. Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are two different forms of the same condition. They come under the blanket term ‘neurodiversity’ which also includes other lifelong conditions like dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia, Tourette syndrome and autism (ASD). According to Dr. Tony Lloyd, psychologist and CEO of the UK’s leading neurodiversity charity The ADHD foundation, “neurodiverse people make up at least 20% of the population”. Those with ADD/ADHD may be prone to inattentiveness, impulsiveness, disorganisation, procrastination, restlessness, low frustration tolerance and poor time management. ADD/ADHD can have a substantial impact on mood and social interaction, and thus, on most aspects of everyday life, especially when undiagnosed. Nanette Mellor is CEO of The Brain Charity, an organisation that supports those with neurological conditions, and tells me: “ADHD is often misunderstood as the inability to pay attention. In fact, individuals with ADHD find it difficult not to pay attention to everything around them and so can become distracted from what it is they really want to do. This can result in a kind of overload of stimulation within the brain which can be extremely distracting, tiring and in some cases debilitating.” Conversely, while it’s difficult to generalise, many people with ADHD are highly creative and often original thinkers. Many have boundless energy that they can channel into their chosen field. And many people with ADHD, counterintuitively, experience something called hyperfocus, where they’re able to deeply concentrate on a task to the exclusion of all else for long periods. What does this mean day to day? Well, everyone’s experience of ADHD is different; there are core symptoms common to most, but also individual variations that may take people off in opposite directions. For me, prior to diagnosis, it’s been a lifetime of disorganisation, low-level chaos and hurrying everywhere — while realising halfway through my journey that I don’t have the exact address of where I’m supposed to be. It’s also been a gradual reduction in self-esteem and a corresponding rise in depression and anxiety over many decades, due to problems at work and in my social life arising from undiagnosed ADHD. Additionally, it’s also meant that I have been able to devote extraordinary levels of concentration to DJing, music production and writing, which has provided me with great solace and happiness over the years. So something of a mixed bag.
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Read More »The root causes of ADD/ADHD are not completely understood, but studies suggest that it may be due to an imbalance of a particular neurotransmitter — a chemical in the brain — called dopamine, which is associated with emotional regulation, motivation, alertness and mood. Essentially, it’s believed that the brains of people with ADD/ADHD work in a slightly different way to ‘typical’ brains. It’s not a question of intellect; people with ADD/ADHD are as clever, or indeed not, as anyone else; they’re just not as good at some things, and better at others. There are lots of disagreements around many of these terms, but for this article I’ll follow scientific orthodoxy and use ‘neurodiversity’ to describe the cluster of conditions mentioned above. And while every human mind is unique, so we are all in a sense neurodivergent, there is an average range of human neurology and then there are some people whose neurology is outside of this range, so again, I’ll be following scientific orthodoxy and using the terms ‘neurotypical’ and ‘neurodivergent’.
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