Aspie talking at a 'very' early age?

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This IS possible, right? One of the things that bug me about my Asperger's diagnoses is that I started talking too early. Never got a chance to ask my doctors about it.

There's no language delay associated with Asperger's, so there's no such thing as speech that is "too early."

I always read that there isn't 'clinically significant' delay compared to the average child, but I wondered if there are ones who learn to speak very early.

Nine months here. Was arguing at thirteen months about what things were called what.

Well, I am POSITIVE I am AS. I, like some others(that WERE diagnosed AS), started talking VERY early. My mother said I was talking in 100% understandable SENTENCES by about 10 MONTHS! I went to the hospital when I was about 18 months old, and my mother said I was even chatting with the nurses.

BTW I WAS shy, but I was VERY curious. I spoke to various adults all the time. I STILL will if they are respected by others, unique, intelligent, or know something I don't.

Asperger DID talk about little kids talking like adults, so it FIGURES that some started speaking very early.

BTW the normal milestones are saying simple words at 6 months, and 50% understandable sentences by 2 years.

It is a pity I didn't learn other languages so fast. Then again, I DO notice that I become a LOT more fluent in other languages after getting immersed in them for even a few minutes!

I admit that 10 months sounds early, but some said they started talking even earlier. even 2 years with no point of reference sounds fast. Somehow, however, almost everyone seems to pick it up to at least SOME degree. Even people that can do little else. Even the "non verbal" ones here are often so good that you wouldn't know they hardly, or perhaps never, talk.

I didn't really start speaking until I was 7. Before that it was just one word sentences or echolalia. Not real speech. Now I am giving speeches to people! What a difference between now and then. That is why I am not Asperger's because I did have a speech delay. I am high functioning autistic.

I did not speak actual words until I was four but have an AS diagnosis.

I was walking at 6 months and talking, actually talking in semi complete thoughts, by 8 months, and I'm AS, so its definitly possible.

edit: I should qualify semi-complete: comparing it to my 5 yold brother, I would say at 8 months I was at the point he was at at 16 months.

I talked early. I don't know exactly how many months, but apparently I only ever talked in complete, grammatically correct sentences. And I'm AS. Also, my first word was 'shoe'.

I talked late and I still can't talk in grammatically correct sentences.

you must mean: I cant still talks in grammaticly correct sentence.

9 months for me as well plus I was reading by 3 but I've always had problems with pronumciation and prosody and speaking loud enough to be heard.

I started talking at the usual time (single words by one year), but continued with just echolalic speech until a little over three years. By the time I was four I was speaking in communicative phrases and sentences, and gained an intuitive grasp of conversational flow, except that after a short while I couldn't put it into practice and I wouldn't speak in more than short bursts anyway, and then my conversational flow seems to be much less than when I was four.

Talked when I was 11 months.... although I ate with a spoon until I was 5 yrs old

I was talking at under a year (possibly 10 months), and I was reading and memorising books at 2 years. I was linguistically prococious and always had a verbal IQ higher than expected for my age. That's why no one paid much attention to the fact that my performance IQ was sigificantly lower than average. Professionals commented on the discrepancy, but because I was 'gifted' in language, and therefore articulate, the things I found incredibly difficult were not taken seriously until some time later.

I think this may be the story for a lot of AS people. It's certainly not unusual, in my experience, for Aspies to have been early talkers/readers.