Student Life | Issue 41

The Music That
Represents Me
BY FRAN MULVEY
There is a lot of music that I feel
represents me. My personality,
who I am, things I’ve felt. But
there are but few songs that
really hit the mark, and I’ll tell
you about the most important
ones here.
LOST GIRLS
BY LINDSEY STIRLING
Is a song that embodies how I
felt before my Developmental
Co-ordination Disorder (DCD, or
Dyspraxia) and Autistic Spectrum
Disorder (ASD). I knew I was different,
but I didn’t know why. I didn’t fit in at
school, and had difficultly with social
interaction which I’m now a little
better at. I felt like an outsider.
THE PHOENIX, FIRST LIGHT,
AND SOMETHING WILD [FEAT.
ANDREW MCMAHON IN THE
WILDERNESS]
BY LINDSEY STERLING
Kind of all centre around the one
thing. My ASD has always been the
thing that most impacts my life; for
me The Phoenix is almost a musical
rendition of what happened within
me when I finally got my diagnosis,
at 19. There was such a cacophony
of emotions I couldn’t pick them
apart to find just one, and so many
conflicting thoughts. First Light is all
the emotions and thoughts that came
after all that. I’d finally found out why
I’d always felt so different; I knew
what made me the way I am – the
way I thought was beginning to make
sense, and I now had the other half
of the reason for my fascination with
wolves and butterflies - I love those.
Something Wild…well, that’s how I
imagine my High Functioning Autism
(where I sit on the spectrum) would
sound if it had a voice of its own and
could “talk”.
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