echolalia

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Do phrases from movies, cartoons, and soap operas count? If they do, I can recite the ENTIRE thing from memory.

I had it as a young kid, and I think I have a mild case of it now. Because sometimes I copy what is said on TV (especially SpongeBob), and I repeat things, mostly questions.

i do that sometimes in my head. ill just repeat something over and over. but it isnt involuntary. i just have a desire to do so or do it without thinking. i also tend to mimick birds and animals. ive embarassed my mother before by returning a bark to a dog whilst in the car and in public. XD

I used to have immediate echolalia. I would often mutter the last word of a question directed at me or recite whole sentences at random after a conversation. Nowadays it happens infrequently, usually kept to my head

I still have delayed echolalia though. I often pick up catch-phrases, jingles or puns and recite them word-for-word in a random, unrelated sentence later on.

With me I occasionally repeat the last 2 or 3 words of any question that people ask me. I've no idea why.

I am not sure. I don't have immediate echolalia, and don't think I really have delayed echolalia, either. I do repeat phrases, but that is usually like if someone else has a catch-all word/phrase that they use all the time, I pick it up and use it myself. I guess many NTs also do this though.

Both my sons can tell me verbatim what someone has said and done weeks after it has happened. Anyone called to be accoutable for their words or actions finds this very disconcerting. However soon learn to watch their P's and Q's infront of my kids.

The oldest boy and myself can repeat lines from movies and songs or what someone else had said to us but we always do it in context and it is aprropriate and funtional in the situation we use it in. If either one of us catches the other doing this we always have a conspirational giggle between us.

Sometimes when people say things I quote the movie or song I know it from. Sometimes I start singning a little bit of the song. They look at me like I'm a mental case but I quite enjoy doing it still.

Sometimes when people are being long winded and/or boring in their verbal explanations of things or talk too quickly. Sometimes I tune out for a second of two, I sometimes stop them and if I repeat the words I have heard but not entirely processed I can catch up with what they are on about. I say to them that I am just getting this straight in my head before we go on because this is important to understand. Sometimes I repeat what I have processed and ask them to fill in the blanks. No great long or revealing explanations just "I have a sh***y short term memory" I am told this is to do with CAPD and the longer time it takes for some with neurodevelopmental issues to process auditory information. Perhaps one of the reasons why some ASDians prefer the net over actual face to face conversations.

I don't know if any of this stuff is especially ASDish. I never considered it be be before my sons DX's but now I sometimes wonder.

I've realised that my dad has Immediate echolalia. He's been repeating things mostly from TV but now he repeats my lil daughter's words and sometimes it is a bit annoying and weird. My dad has been always doing it. Whole my life I thought it was just the way he was, not something scientificaly named.
This made me thinking that maybe my parents are autistic, but I don't see it clearly, have no idea.
Now I wonder if my daughter could be autistic. She is 15 months old and hears tiny noises, just like me. Sometimes she is spinning around when listening to music and dancing. That's all, nothing else even slightly fitting Autism description. I know it might be a little early to diagnose her. But if she is autistic, I will understand her because I know how it is. At least she'll be understood by her parent. I wasn't. And that hurted.

I have echolailia *whispers I have echolailia*

No seriously joking aside, I have it quite badly. I repeat everything I say, its quite annoying at times.