ACTUALLY AUTISTIC RAMBLES, RANTS, REVIEWS, RAVES AND THINGS OF PROBABLE INTEREST FROM “SUNNY” GLASGOW.
Autism Acceptance Week 2026: Autitune!
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A bonus post today seeing as it's a bank holiday weekend and all and it's all about the music.
I've posted about music - and music related stuff - on loads of occasions, especially after a late night chat regarding my fairly amazing autistic memory bank and the ability to remember exactly where and when I heard my favourite
songs or saw my favourite films for the first time in minute detail.
For
example Tears of A Clown, 30 April 1975....followed a news report on
the fall of Saigon, I was sitting cross legged in front of our old
stereo in the maisonette we lived in in Coseley (or Wallbrook as the
area was known then).
Oh yes, and we had this wallpaper (I insisted).
Anyway, in a musical vein (see? it all links together) and to add a wee bit of fun and hopefully brighten things up this Autism Acceptance Week (fudge knows I need it) I thought I'd do a post about Autistic type tracks, basically songs I feel sum me up or I just enjoy!
Hopefully you might too.
First up (from me) my own personal Autism anthem....
And the song that reminds me of the podlings and their pals....
I've also appropriated 'Losing Sleep' by the genius that is Edwyn Collins as a top 'Tism tune too! :)
Special interests anyone?
Rho kindly added that this sums things up for her!
Teenage years?....got it covered!
In more ways than one...
Dating?
And
if we're at the whole dating/relationships/emotional thing then this -
but mainly because it's probably THE greatest song and vocal performance
ever committed to vinyl....and the only pop tune that can reduce me to
tears every time....
Hmmm....should really cheer the thread up a wee bit...
If stimming was a song.....
Oh you like film and music? Well cinema sounds don't get more Autistic than this....and Quorra's haircut was cool too.
Sticking
with teenage kicks and cinema, this is a go to for me as it's from
probably THE best movie about alienated youth ever....the mighty Times
Square....goosebumps.
And while we're at it, I can't ignore the song from the soundtrack that's by an #actuallyautistic singer....
Mighty
mixes of music and movement are always a thing in our house....and Cass
is no exception - he's always been obsessed with this....and why not?
The Aquabats - Pool Party!
More later....
plus as a wee treat you can listen to the whole thing here:
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