When did you start to speak?

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Speaking, 1 year old. Reading 3,5 years old.

I started to speak when i was 6 years old which is quite late really.

I read late. Started at age six but I couldn't read spontaneously. Then at age eight I was truly reading and then at age nine I started to read chapter books. My mom got me started with them when I was eight but I hate them then because I was visual and needed pictures. Chapter books didn't have many pictures so I couldn't read them.

I could speak words before I was one year old and could speak in whole sentences at age 1 and a half. I also could walk a bit early. The strange thing is that I don't think that speech has ever been my strong point (I have some old tape recordings of my voice). I only learned to read at around age 7.

learning to read between 5-7 is normal since that's when most kids start school. it also is the time period when parents will generally try to push reading on you.

in my case i learned how to read at 3 and since the only books around where my older sister's i started on chapter books. i didn't get a chance to read most classic picture books until i was reading them to my little sister. no read to me when i was little.

the plus side is that i was really far ahead by the time i started school. the downside is that school was really boring since the first few years are all about learning to read and i'd been reading for years.

And here is my mystery & divergence away from classical Asperger's. I started talking at 1 year or younger. But about the time my sister was born at 18 months lost speech completely. For the next two years they say I was silent. After 3 I resumed talking & in complete sentences yet.

Sincerely,
Matthew

I did not really start speaking until after my second birthday. My speech was limited to "indicator words." By my third birthday, I was speaking in complete sentences.

I was crawling by my first birthday, but did not actually start walking until I was 18 months old. My mother told me, "You just got up one day and walked."

I didn't speak until I hit the age of five, and then I never shut up. Though English was my worst subject in school for a short time, which was somewhat surprising.

First word at ten months maybe, first sentence of any kind was a mixture of English and German words. Taught myself to read both English and German by age four. When I was approaching five I started going to school, the first book they ever gave me to read was called "look". It had ten pages with pictures on and the caption beneath each picture was simply "look" and within a few days of starting school I was bored senseless. In my last year at nursery I often just used to sit on my own reading. Those were the days.

Same here. I was born unable to hear and had several corrective surgeries and speech therapy. Oddly enough, when I did begin to speak, I had a significantly larger vocabulary than my peers.

On a completely unrelated subject: I prefer "Todesangst" over "Todesfurcht." It rolls off the tongue more easily...