Is it true that people with Aspergers have perfect pitch...?

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I read a thread on this fourm and a lot of the answers were favoring "Yes". I was just wondering can the Aspies that can sing; is this applied to their voices? I can't exactly sing; but I can make it go very high pitched....

Thanks.

I'm not sure if I understand your question...

Perfect pitch doesn't magically make you a perfect singer.
I have it, but I'm not a good singer. My only advantage is that I can find any arbitrary note without a reference. But the disadvantage is that I can't sing to transposed scores.

One minute Aspies have low/raspy voice. Next minute Aspies have high-pitch voice. Now we have perfect pitch and are able to sing ''better than NTs''. Talk about contradiction!

nope

OK, thanks!

Depends on the person.

Yeah, I don't think this is an "Aspie trait".

I have very good pitch, but my voice sounds horrible so I don't sing very well.

Erm... Maybe we're not talking about the same thing.

"Absolute pitch (AP), widely referred to as perfect pitch, is the ability of a person to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of an external reference." [Wikipedia]

I don't have perfect pitch, but I can copy intervals exactly and have a very small JND between pitches. I don't think this has to do with Asperger's; my whole family is musically talented to some extent, whether or not they also have some form of autism.

there is a difference between absolute pitch [able to discern a pitch to better than a quarter-tone] and perfect pitch [able to discern pitch better than a semi-tone]. i don't think it is an aspie trait, i only know that i either taught it to myself on a piano keyboard, or i discovered that i had it on a piano keyboard.

definitely not!

Don't get too wound up, people - on WP everything's an ''Aspie trait'', even enjoying social interaction or liking to have a relationship will soon somehow be an Aspie trait, until soon NTs will just be made out to be emotionless zombies.

Definitely not. I bet less than 5% of Aspies have perfect pitch. I certainly don't, though I have very good relative pitch (which can be learned) and can often sing a song's melody in the original key it was recorded (kind of like perfect pitch, but not really), without musical reference. Regardless, singing does not come naturally to me and it's something I've really had to work on.

I've been writing and producing songs for years so being able to discern what's in tune is relevant to that effort. At the same time I've never heard it was an aspie trait.

I've not heard this. However, could it be to do with many Aspies having extraordinarily sensitive hearing, meaning it's easier for them to tune into correct notes?

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I wish.