Aahhhh! My autistic son's new special interest is late seventies disco music.....

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Between the hours of 6-8 and 4-8 my house sounds like a roller disco in about 1982. I can practically smell the Brut and Babycham.

He's mercifully keeping the interest to his own room, so it's only a faint sound (so more like the sound of nipping round the back for a snog and a ciggie than hurtling round the floor in a rara skirt). But I'm a light sleeper and was this morning awoken at 6.02 by Ra Ra Rasputin.

Oh, how I yearn for the silent days when he was busy creating a complex taxonomy of Daleks.

Please send support, sympathy and ear plugs!

Amazon to same day delivery and have pretty good ear plugs

I sympathise. My NT Dd was singing Xanadu at 10pm last night.

Shes inherited my questionable music tastes

Mine is into Byzantine chant and incense 😃

Poptastic!!

I'm almost envious - are you getting lots of Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Abba?

Or the ultimate annoying earworm - Kelly Marie "Feels like I'm in love"?

I remember my parents' despair when my special interest was one Greenday song for about three months 😆Fortunately, I absolutely love my noise-cancelling earphones, so DH is spared my musice 😅Good luck, OP 😉

That is so cool! Loop ear plugs are excellent though 😄

I absolutely love 70's disco music-your son has great taste!

Not helpful, sorry

Aaah I'm just in ear worm day dreams. I'd be playing Kelly Marie, Chic and Edwin Starr's Contact on a loop.

That's kind of adorable! You have a lovely writing style btw 🤗

I LOVE disco, and will admit that in lockdown I bought myself a disco light for partying in the kitchen when I'm cooking and clearing up. We should do a childcare swap!

Haha! Could you persuade him to wear headphones?! Otherwise, earplugs for you...

Give in to it. I watched Saturday Night Fever last night and my head is full of Bee Gee’s songs. Not a bad place to be.

My DS has ra-ra-rasputin and various ABBA and Queen songs on his Spotify playlist to be played especially loudly in the bath!
TBH I prefer it infinitely to DDs Avenged Sevenfold/Metallica sweary dirges.

Oddly enough, I've not heard a single Abba song being played.
But Sister Sledge is taking a real hammering (if you'll excuse the brilliant pun)

I feel that we are inhabiting a parallel universe to those on the 'tiger parent'/ 'american middle class children' thread extolling the virtues of organised fun, competitive team sports and a hectic extracurricular schedule to impress universities. I'm just hoping the admissions tutors at whatever university DS aspires to attend are also massively into Warhammer, Daleks, and Donna Summer.

Sounds fantastic.
It's all musical theatre in my house. I love it.

Has he discovered Kung Fu Fighting yet?

Do Daleks carry a modified sink plunger at all times?

It is indeed a little bit frightnin'

Would he like more suggestions for his playlist?? Eye of the Tiger was a frequent feature of the roller discos I went to in the 80's 😁

If this is what my future holds I'm all for it!

At the moment we are stuck in the inner workings of car engines and car names which I confess to having absolutely no interest in. It makes life very painful at times! I think I'd much rather be in a 1970s disco

How about the sci-fi disco crossover banger that is "Starship Trooper"

Daleks?
Does he stretch to Doctorin' The Tardis by The Timelords?

Released in the 80s, it lifts 70s glam rock and mashes it with the Doctor Who theme tune. Not exactly disco, but danceable and he might like it

My friend was dancing to that, decided to demonstrate a kick (in a nightclub)
Her shoe flew off, hitting someone in the head. Not our finest hour

Mine’s is Taylor Swift. I have never downloaded a song, yet l know them all🤪

I know her birthday, her interests, her boyfriend, all about her planes and pets. Yet I’ve never searched up anything about her.

Shr comes up on my newsfeed now😖

Oops Upside Your Head is 70s

If you need a core work out you could teach him the dance (is it stretching it to call it a dance?)
Surprisingly my teens know it, and no it wasn't be who taught them.

That song has been the soundtrack of our lives since 2017, when DD first introduced DS to it on what turned out to be the longest and most psychologically taxing autoroute journey I've ever experienced. How the ELeclerc wine flowed that night! I think I'll ask to have it at my funeral.