I was always into EDM, but didn't really start going to raves until last year. I love the dancing, I love the energy of the crowd, its all great!!

My favorite EDM subgenres are techno, dnb, and riddim! I basically like anything that's like stimulating and in my face. As an auDHDer, I'm both stimuli avoidant and stimuli seeking. Most of the time I avoid too much sensory, so I admittedly don't go to raves very often, but when I get the energy to go to one, you can catch me in the crowd dancing.

The energy of the crowd is the reason I love going to concerts at all, but there's just something about the rave scene that's different. Everyone here knows they're there to be silly, that's why rave culture is so colorful in the US (if we can just avoid the idea that it's also because of capitalism for a second). You hand out little trinkets!!! You dress in slutty and colorful outfits!!! You can just be a kid for a few hours!!! Rock out with your cock out type energy. Some people portake in vices, others just do it straight edge. It really is what you make of it!!

I'm personally still trying to find out how I prefer to rave without my ex since I've only gone to raves with them, but I do know that I dance for an insane amount of time. I went to the club once to see an EDM artist and they fucking rocked. I met some new friends just for that evening, they were drunk as hell, I never got their names. But I did give her a kandi bracelet! And in exchange, she gave me a sticker of her dogs that I'm looking at right now. It's a very silly sticker!!! And what an awesome night I won't forget. That's the power of raving!!! Of partying!!! Having a good time!!!!

Oh!!! My favorite artists are horsegiirl, Basstripper, Subtronics, Rezz, Xcision, GRiZ, Miss K8, Sara Landry, and others I'm sure I'm forgetting :)