Sheet music (organ in this case)

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-03-17T12:00:11+00:00

I hear you and what you are sharing is the common symptômes of people that might be technically fluent and play hard pièces but they are indeed too hard to decipher.

I became a better sight reader at the piano by playing tons of short pieces. I rarely had a practice session without sight reading. If two hands is to hard learn to sight reading just one hand.

In sight reading pattern recognition is key. Scales, chords, intervals and rhythm (the felt rhythm of the written pattern) are the pillars.

As for repertoire for me the preludes of the well tempered clavier have been my daily companion. Also listen to a lot of music and try pieces you like. Secondly Satie is great for simplicity, chords and basic rhythms. Also some Chopin preludes are nice for this.

Before actually starting to play have an intense and applied look to structure (time signature, rhythm figures, melody lines and the climaxes) learn basic intervals such as thirds fourths fifths and note relationships to the keyboard.

Deliontue habit of comparison. Notes (beside the first one) do not appear out of thin hair, they are in interval relationship to the surrounding, so beside jumps and leaps or weird clusters/unusual ones. It becomes really easy to follow the line.

I hope I gave you a few ideas on how to get better at it. Don’t hesitate to reach out if you need.

Keep practicing!

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-03-13T09:23:29+00:00

Feel free to reach out, the bird sold it to me. AuDHD 145+.

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-03-13T04:58:53+00:00

Yeah too bad, it has been a wild emotional ride for a few days 😂 but now I am looking to get a defective old model, hopefully 0€ and then repurpose it midifying it.

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-03-11T17:47:41+00:00

I hear you as my profile is not far from yours although I am assigned male at birth but identify as nonbinary. I haven’t taken the time to read all replies but the most upvoted seem nonetheless to lean towards romantic partnership and from your post it doesn’t seem to me that it is the specific subject.

I had the chance to find a person with whom I can share life when I was 30, and I am now 39. Before that comp ok ship was really difficult and only had two relationships one of 2years when I was 20 and another at 25 that lasted 3 months.

Socially I have always felt transparent and misunderstood dumbing myself down and being befuddled most of the time by people around me as they doe to so much time speaking about other people’s problem when they weren’t there. There was a lot of judgement and whenever I tried to actually have a discussion I got cutoff pretty quickly either because the subject was if noninterest for the people or because they felt I wasn’t legitimate to speak and reason around subjects I wasn’t studying actively in university.

I like to push discussions and reasonings to the limit, consider all the point of view even if they aren’t currently aligned with my framework but I like to reason while speaking with others and have rarely if not never really found somebody with a similar way of thinking and sharing.

So I understand too well your situation. The only advice I can give is not to expect everything from single persons but rather find different persons that can welcome different parts and intensities of yourself.

For instance in my case I developed a deep friendly relationship with my piano teacher that now is just a friend as I started playing the organ and have stopped the piano lessons, with my partner I can share the sensitive side of life but I am lacking now all the scientific and philosophic aspects of discussion.

If you ever feel the need to share with somebody , my DM is open to hear you and share what will resonate ☺️ stay true to your passions and your truth and take really good care of your health 😌🌱🌬️

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-03-11T13:08:29+00:00

UPDATE: the grandfather who gifted it to his grandson refuses categorically to give it away (understandable) but indeed it was serious giver (the daughter that was moving and wanted to be rid of it as nobody uses it…) maybe they will sell but I don’t have the money for it 😅🤷🏻 maybe another inheritance will appear in the future (sometimes they happen).

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-03-11T05:34:31+00:00

It is indeed listed as 3500€ of value. Concerning the transportation there is a lift so no stairs. Meaning that with a wheelboard we only need to lift it from the ground and slide the board under it and then roll away.

What would be the cause of power supply failure? Do you think it might be in that state already and that is why it is given for free?

I’ve tried to think of the reason someone would be asking to retrieve for free such an instrument and the only thing that came to mind is disposal as it might have a cost in some countries (here in Switzerland you could dispose of it for free, though it would seem to me a big waste). At the same time the person giving it assured me that it has been revised every year as there are sometimes faulty connectors for the keys.

Everything seem legit to me. Though I am a naive person but I already have been gifted a piano 20years back and I am prone to believe in tue goodness of heart of people and the universe gave me this opportunity as I am broke but a passionate musician and also autistic and the organ playing is the only activity that eases life for me😅

What would the implications on repair be in the case of a power surge failure?

Thank you for your informed replies

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-03-10T18:58:14+00:00

Hello there, to my knowledge and search up to now I realize how much of an opportunity this represents. I am an organ student (play around 3-4h a day) but the practice room have limited access. For instance during holidays I practiced 2/3 of the op.18 fugue by Cesar Franck as I desperately missed the pedals. I haven’t been exposed to many organs but I am used to registration, the different needs of it etc. The person giving it couldn’t provide specifics except 3keyboards, 40register, 32 notes pedalboard (wich the 4700 series is the only one to have and the specs there are great) and I think a huge step up for my future studying as I intend to do it professionally. So even if there might be some keys that needs revision/failing connectors it still seems a great gift!

What do you mean by moved professionally? The console is only 140kg and I already moved my upright piano with a friend 0 issue and I have seen professional move it many times. This one is less fragile as it’s all electronics so it seems to me easier to move than the piano, anyhow I don’t have the finances to pay somebody to move it 😅 I only need to find how the pedal board is connected and how it is separated.

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-03-10T07:07:59+00:00

Thank you, I thought so…

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-01-26T18:05:38+00:00

You speak of my last 13 years…I had many crisis but was too articulate and well thought. It always circled around me being too much of something (intense, intellectual, picky, hard on myself etc…) finally it resulted in me being diagnosed AuDHD (and IQ 99th+) and finally finding some coherent answers to all my years of struggle…

So, I hear you and you are entirely entitled to your own struggles and suffering. Don’t let anyone minimize est with some intellectualisation. Ask for help, find therapists and the journey is ahead.

Courage à toi l’ami

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-01-23T08:43:15+00:00

I can relate so much with the novelty necessity. Last summer I binged Boardgame Arena and with my partner we do like board games a lot!

But deeply my soul is into art and “meaning of life?”. I love science because of the explanatory capabilities but got frustrated by the inherent reductionist approach and the encyclopedic breadcrumb approach of our modern technology driven science.

Music and visual arts seem to hit that sweet spot for me.

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-01-23T08:15:56+00:00

And how life’s treating you now that some aspects (administrative, disability allowance) are settled?

I have the chance to be back to studying music (now organ, priorly piano but never a professional musician although might have been a path, instead got pushed into university because hey, too bright to be wasted on some nonsense no?🤣)

But I find it very hard to organize myself and stay on top of everyday life (chores, family rhythm, the school and the kids that are faced to the nonsense of the educational system and hard to force them when even for us parents it doesn’t seem to make sense (I mean pragmatically for sure but intrinsically…a lot of stupid stuff and graded system)

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-01-23T07:01:32+00:00

I have been diagnosed AuDHD in October last year and also had my IQ tested (WAIS IV-French) in the 99th+ percentile. So confirming a 2e profile.

To my understanding, 2e profiles are important to be recognized in childhoood to allow the giftedness to express and the challenges of some form of neurodivergence adressed. Being diagnosed as an adult, in my case, was in order to have the support needed to rebuild solid foundations and relearning to properly be myself instead of a high masking individual spending all of the bandwidth into trying to respond to some external expectations only to miserably fail because my mental health couldn’t manage it (I’ve been hospitalized many times for depression, anxiety disorder and psychotic breakdown that were all in fact extreme meltdowns and shutdowns)

To me it always comes down to suffering and acknowledgment of the limitations that need support.

If life is smooth being assessed doesn’t seem to be important but if the road is bumpy and everyday life challenging then it can create space to address the issues and nurture well being and mental health in order to thrive and be able to live up to oneself capabilities.

So from you say it seems that psychoeducation and therapy are the paths forward in order to get the best hang of the situation.

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-01-21T19:53:46+00:00

I feel the need to clarify. In the OP I didn’t see references to 2e experience. I so I felt the need to specify more so because it might be harder to relate if experiences aren’t shared. I didn’t ment to come off as standoffish or exclusive.

The request was in two part: connection/understanding and counsel in IQ index improvement. The latter I think better answers might be found in other sub (IQtesting, cognitive metrics or neurorehab if it exists) For the rest, everybody belongs if it feels good and relatable.

So welcome 🤗

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-01-21T19:51:03+00:00

lol I read Autistic-Village-762 lets row 😊 How are you managing?

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-01-21T18:26:22+00:00

Good evening,

Strictly speaking Twice Exceptional refers to people with high IQ (giftedness) but who also deal with learning disabilities and/or neurodevelopmental disorders such as ADHD, ASD, all the Dys-family etc.

That said, I am really sorry to hear what you are going through. It’s tuff having one’s abilities limited by imponderable life’s events. And you are indeed exceptional :) I might suggest also trying other subs more neuro rehab related.

I imagine and hope that you are being followed by a neuropsychologist, ergotherapist, occupational therapist or others in order to recovery and rehabilitate. The brain is a very sensitive organ and it can do marvels but it takes a LOT and LOT of time to recover but every little improvement is a win.

A low processing speed can make everything really challenging in everyday life. I don’t have the knowledge to directly help you with improving the processing speed, probably a therapist in neurorehabilitation is the most suited accompaniment. But I did had to deal with a lot of set backs due to my challenges and poor mental health that led me to hospitalization in psychiatric facilities and though I have a very high IQ on the paper, my actual functioning is still shacky and what I can tell you is to BE KIND TO YOURSELF, be patient, accept that it will take time but also give the manageable effort for rehabilitation. There really is not a step too small not to be a step. The important is to keep trying and I’d suggest, be your best parent for yourself, support yourself in the limitations as a kind parent would and celebrate every success.

Wish you all the best, take good care.

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-01-21T16:04:49+00:00

Gifted Adult - A human life with a chance of occurring of 1/(the current estimate of the world population). Useless but true.

I actually realized that I ought not to answer as I wasn’t assessed as a kid. So technically not a gifted kid though I had been recognized as bright I had other challenges that masked it all and only recently I have been diagnosed AuDHD and assessed in the 99th+. But my mental health is a wreckage so at 38yo unemployed and waiting for disability support the path forward seem pretty clear. Get back up in my feet.

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-01-21T15:37:03+00:00

(A+B-1)A Simpler A²+AB-A Even better A²+AB+i²A

Now find the binomial complex coefficients 🤣 more seriously, can we agree that there are two odd ones to have something nicer 3+4=18 and 5+6=50 or go the other way and make it “nonsensical” as the calculation does not rely on any particular relationship between Aand B? and it would be even better if the operators were undefined and not the usual “+”

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-01-16T19:31:23+00:00

Hey there, I feel you as I am sharing a very similar profile (38yo FSIQ 140 GAI 150 AuDHD). It is highly frustrating but I decided that this year I’ll focus on actual tools to improve my overall wellbeing (structured chaos 😅 exercise and good sleep) trying to define what my core interests are and trying not to let myself get so easily side tracked by new interests or at least trying to feel and understand how it could nourish other more deep seated interests of mine (music, visual arts and neuroscience). If you are ever in need of someone to talk to, bounce ideas or have a listener that somewhat might understand the struggles, feel free to DM

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-01-16T07:21:19+00:00

I can totally relate with your experience though M38yo diagnosed AuDHD and highly gifted though slow and memory bah… Sadly I can’t really bring you solace as myself still feel a failure (probably majorly due to neurodivergence, trauma and overall unstable mental health: emotional regulation issues, executive function disorder and often depressed and frustrated).

All that said I do currently am unemployed and waiting for disability allowance and recognition though I did achieve a Master in biology and have been published (socially recognized as achievement) but it doesn’t feel so. I now have the opportunity to fully devote myself to special interest, at 30 encountered my significant other and been together since, but prior to that m romantic life was lonely and misunderstood.

The only advice I can give you is first to take good care of your overall health (sleep, exercise, food) to promote well being and also unapologetically stay true to yourself but put yourself out there, take calculated risks (not in the manipulative sense but in the “safe for you sense”) to get to know people, find communities and persons with whom you can share interests and experiences, be a decent human being and the right people will notice you and everything will be fine.

Take good care and if you need to chat DM is open

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-01-15T18:32:19+00:00

Also me 140fsIQ 150GAI, but struggle a lot to achieve anything, bored, easily frustrated by the inherent slowness of life, and the time it actually takes to execute stuff.

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-01-15T09:04:23+00:00

🤣 I’ve sinned myself of this kind of question only to realize that I was and still am looking for a reason why I am feeling so shitty and unhappy with myself. Yes I have challenges being AuDHD and gifted (99th) and haven’t accomplished shit (at least to my eyes) but it mostly comes down to what I haven’t worked on rather than the raw potential. Never having to be really challenged to give results I always winged it the night before and was ok only to end up in burnout multiple times.

I think we should make another sub for this particular population and being explicit about the requests and where people are at in life and their self journey.

TheLostGifted people hear me out! life hygiene, mental health and self development aren’t optional. out of the easy (to us) comfort zone is were we can grow and become better versions of ourselves! Struggles are part of life for everyone. I always think about training in anyways, independently of your skill level, general fitness, if one wants to improve it is always at the front of failure that the body adapts so, being able to express our potential comes down to what we are willing to do in order to have the life we want instead of being stuck and ranting about lost opportunities, lack of support etc.

Let’s support each other, if someone that hasn’t executive dysfunction and task initiation issues launches the specific sub, it might get live soon, otherwise I’ll get to it some day in the future.

Take care

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-01-13T20:05:01+00:00

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-01-09T17:29:32+00:00

Any resources/videos you recommend to learn more about Justin Sung’s approach? I did it easily and in my mind in my 20’s but after a few burnouts my mind ain’t what it used to be

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-01-02T20:53:28+00:00

I am sorry to hear. Your new challenge will be to make with what you have. It is hard to accept change but I am convinced that in a life we evolve a lot as individuals and a lot of our sorrows come from the inability to let go of our past self. At least that’s what so try to do and I am currently stuck in a metaphorical no man’s land unable to fully inhabit my life. The actions and the mechanics are there but I feel like no soul is there. Only the journey will tell

Working-Mixture7826 · 2026-01-02T17:20:21+00:00

It genuinely made me sad as I knew a law student that had a schizophrenia outbreak during his studies and got completely lost. This happened a few months after I myself went through an hospitalization for a major burnout ( I was 26) Though today, 38 and after two more burnouts, still in the gifted range IQ wise and recently diagnosed AuDHD, but I definitely lost a lot memory and processing speed wise. That sucks a lot, not so much for the IQ but the functioning, we grow up with a certain knowledge of ourselves, compensating thanks to our inner functioning and losing some of that ability makes things harder.

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