Sound Effect

For this musician with autism, music is their first language: Sound Effect, Episode 173.5


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Xolie Morra Cogley is a musician in Seattle, and leader of the band Xolie Morra and the Strange Kind. “I’ve always been into music since I was very little," Cogley says. "And so music, I think, really helped to move me in a more social direction, because I didn’t really do a lot of talking when I was little. But I developed a communication skill using music that helped me fit into certain groups. So I didn’t have to have conversations. I was just playing music.” Using music as a sort of language
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Sound EffectBy Gabriel Spitzer and Jennifer Wing

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