Stimming while listening to music

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I kinda tilt my head side to side whenever i hear music I like!!

My brother, who is not an aspie, always taps his feet and snaps his fingers when he listen to music, which is annoying to no end. (it is a form of stimming)

I'm stonefaced when I listen to music and I listen to tons of it

Does it count if it's a song that's stuck in your head? I'm constantly (and I do mean all day long) tapping my feet, wiggling my toes, clicking my teeth, strumming my nails, etc. to the beat of a song that's stuck in my head. I'm fairly certain that I've done this for my entire life, because when I was 6, my teacher called my parents requesting an ADHD evaluation because I was driving her crazy with my tapping.

Oh, and also...one time in college, my husband was tapping his foot to music in the middle of the night, and he irritated the guy who lived under him so much that the guy started banging on his ceiling!

I always have to be involved with music in some way. I can't just sit still while listening to it, because of the way my brain is processing it. I always want to be more involved, it's that distracting to me. So if I'm not rocking to it, I'm bobbing my head to it. If not, then I'm singing to it, and if I'm not singing to it, then I'm playing to it, and I'm not playing to it then I'm dancing to it, if I'm not dancing to it, then I'm swishing in my chair to it wobbling my legs to it, and if I'm not doing that, then please check my pulse.

Lately I've started dancing in my room to music.

I went to Reading Festival on Sunday, I was worried the lights and the noise would give me sensory overload and cause a meltdown, but the way my bones were vibrating was the most terrific stim.

Wait, NTs don't do that?

I hate the word "stimming".