I remember a few years ago when I was volunteering at a school for autistic children and I saw a kid on the computer watching the train from Disney's Dumbo starting to pull the circus carts. The kid would click on the video over and over just to see that scene again. I asked his teacher what he was doing, she said that he enjoyed watching that scene and only that scene. I watched the kid some more and saw him click on the same scene in different languages. I think the last one I saw was Dutch. Despite having autism myself, I couldn't understand what that kid saw in repeating that process. What I didn't realize was that I had done the same thing throughout my life. I would ask my parents to replay whatever song was playing on CD in the car until they were sick of the album. In fact, I'm doing it right now. I'm watching Capital Cities' Safe and Sound for the fifth time. I'm just watching the same five seconds repetitively from 2:05 to 2:10. It's just fascinating to see those missiles fly into the air then fade into people dancing in rhythm to the base as the rest of the song drops out for those few seconds. I think I'm interested in how the movement matches up with the music. I can only speak for myself but maybe this is what that kid was enjoying so much that day.
Here's the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWZr2F0qohA
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