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“Eve-Marie noted that ‘although music is initially a social-emotional product created by the composer, a listener does not have to enter into a direct interpersonal interaction with the composer in order to appreciate the music.’ She concludes that emotion processing deficits in ASD are domain-specific, and are preserved in music.”

There’s a 4-page long digression on Joni Mitchell’s 2015 stroke and recovery and the importance of music therapy in her progress, and it was beautifully written, and I cried a little afterward