diff --git a/redis/connection.py b/redis/connection.py
index c9f7fc55d0..617d04af5c 100644
--- a/redis/connection.py
+++ b/redis/connection.py
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ def disconnect(self, *args):
         if os.getpid() == self.pid:
             try:
                 conn_sock.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)
-            except OSError:
+            except (OSError, TypeError):
                 pass
 
         try: