MY SON HAS STRANGE BEHAVIOUR FOR AUTISTIC

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Another question I would like to pose is about his speech. He says for instant <<ball>> while throwing it . This may last about 2 weeks. Than he doesn' t say that word for a month and after that he will say it again for a few days. The same thing happens with some of the words he knows. He seems as If he <<lose >> the words and after a while he <<find>> them again. He have said some other words only once and after that we have never heard of them. Of course he understands much more than these. Is that a familiar situation to anyone and why that happens ?

Autistic people can have difficulty retrieving knowledge that we already have, unless something specific manages to trigger that knowledge. I can't speak for communicative purposes (very long story of how that developed, lots of twists and turns, suffice to say that right now all of my speech is useless echo-stuff and doesn't reflect my thoughts) but every once in awhile (as in, very incredibly rarely) something will trigger a word or sentence that actually lands on target. I've read that this is extremely common for autistic people who have this kind of speech trouble.