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

[WaggyTailsWetNoses]

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!

I'm obsessed with serial killers too and have been for far too long

Oh @MaggieMagpie357 Dh and I have a soft spot for K drama series. Spent about a year working through some pretty good shows.

hes got great taste

Not helpful for you, buy your son has great taste!

saw this - thought of you!

twitter.com/davidcoverdale/status/1631445372571639808?s=21

"You're highly likely to get lucky on two of the three. Donna summer I'm not so sure about..."

This university tutor LOVES Donna Summer, so never fear!

If he could manage it, take him to see Chic live! Playing all over this summer. I've seen them several times and it's a great live gig.

As frustrating as it can be this is such a lovely light hearted thread.

My son no longer lives at home and I miss hearing the latest music he is obsessed with. He does update me on how many cd's he has bought though, at over 1000 and counting I think he is deffo helping keep the CD industry afloat. 😂

I'm quite envious... I was woken at 5 am with a sudoko book stuffed in my face which is my ASD DS new special interest...

Bwahahaha love this! The admissions tutors at Uni might not be into those things but rest assured his professors probably will! The hubby's a professor. Even he says nearly most of his colleagues are on the spectrum but ALL of them are very focussed on eccentric things! 😅

Yes @AllTangledUpInThisTango she's very partial to a K drama series as well! At least they're free to watch 😆

I'm so jealous. My autistic DS is currently fixated on garage and some really dodgy gangsta rap although the lyrics seem to go over his head. He accepts it when I say "no not that one". It's a bloody minefield. I'm going to try and persuade him in your direction OP 😆

I’d think that was absolutely brilliant. Problem is I’d get my boogie on and poor kid would be instantaneously turned off it all🤣.

My autistic teen son is obsessed with the institution of Monarchy (we are certainly not royalists!) and it’s downfall. Every day he watches the queens funeral on YouTube, so I know the funeral march off by heart. He is also obsessed with the French and Russian revolutions, so Rasputin is one of his favourite songs!

OMG, this is priceless. Mr T!!! Thank you for the good chuckle. The visual was the icing on the cake!

That's brilliant! My autistic son's special interests are Pokemon and Minecraft and he babbles on at me about them from the moment he opens his eyes in the morning until he goes to sleep at night! He hates music sadly! My NT daughter loves music but hasn't got the disco fever yet! I am alone in my love of 70's disco in this house.

😍 I met Tom baker once. Very nice man.

Loving all of these! My 22 year old daughter's current obsession is K-Pop; I know more about Yunho than I really should...

Thanks everyone! Life in a neurodiverse family is never boring is it?!

I have loved hearing about posters' and their loves ones' special interests and am now wondering what will come next.

Over half term DS expressed an interest in building a model railway. Grandpa, a huge model rail enthusiast was thrilled and they visited several specialist shops and a museum. At the end of half term DS confided, 'Mum, can you please tell Grandpa I'm not as into model railways as he is. I don't think I really want one any more. It's just too.....geeky' Oh, how we laughed (to the dulcet melody of Heart of Glass)

Nothing questionable at all about ELO and Olivia! It's about as close to music perfection as you can get!

What a heart warming post! Your lovely son has great taste!

Lol we are all addicted to That’s TV 70s/80s pop clips here. My son has never liked contemporary stuff, likes even older stuff than us like The Who, early Bowie, Hendrix.

1. Your son has very good taste.
2. Babycham is back, Baby! Get with the programme, Mum!!!

@Picklypickles

Try looking on YouTube for the Minecraft parody songs if you want to nudge him towards listening to music, I think my favourite is TNT (was Dynamite by Taio Cruz)

I'm a light sleeper and was this morning awoken at 6.02 by Ra Ra Rasputin.

There are worse things to be woken up to, you know!!!