@pathfinder@OctaviaConAmore@actuallyautistic I think there's also probably a more highly granular or whatever you want to call it sense of sound itself (which is probably related to like sensory issues and headphones and such) and so it's like an autistic double whammy of pattern recognition and sensory differences.
I know for me I got really heavy into music when I was young because my audio environment was so overwhelming to me my whole life and it was the first time I ever was able to have any control over it. Add to that the stim effect of playing and the opportunity to do the same thing over and over again for hours every day and I was hooked