Language Impairments?

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I was given the diagnosis of "ASD1 with language impairment". I was initially under the impression that language impairments was something all Autistic people had by default, but now I'm second-guessing myself. Do you have a language impairment?

I had a severe speech delay (didn't speak until age 5)

I stutter and clutter

At times, I don't express myself as well as I would like

My early language mildly stalled (other than my prematurity). I often say completely unrelated words -I know dyspraxia affects my speech ability -but unsure of actual language...

If I do it is a mild one.
Actually it makes me wonder if I am really autistic. I do have a lot of symptoms and I am diagnosed with AS but I generally don't have problems with speaking - unless I shutdown or get stressed.

My words language abilities are in fact very good.

I learned to speak quite fast. By age 1,5 I could make semi-sentences such as "And home!"("A domku!", which wasn't correct since it should be "Do domku" but it was definitely a sentence) and by age 2,5 I could create correct, short sentences such as "And you are my grandma?"(A ty jesteś moja babcia?), "And you came to me?"(A ty do mnie przyszłaś?). Hmm... come to think about that it looks like I was starting every sentence using "And"("A") back then, lol.
I also never replaced the hard sounds with easier ones. There was no replacing "r"to"l" or anything in my 1st words. If I couldn't say a word correctly I would rather say it slowly than change the way it sounds.

I also learned to recognize and remember meanings of words really fast. When I heard a word I didn't know I was asking what it means and I adding it to my mental dictionary. Usually my grandma was the one who explained words to me, she has an advanced knowledge about Polish language.
By age 5 I could speak with adults as an equal. In elementary school I could explain meanings of rare words to my parents.

Grammar was also always easy for me. I never cared about what an adjective etc. is but I easily learned how to make correct sentences. At age 9 I found it fun that some of my classmates were making illogical sentences such as "Idąc do szkoły kot przebiegł mi drogę." instead of "Idąc do szkoły zobaczyłem kota przebiegającego mi drogę" or "Gdy szedłem do szkoły kot przebiegł mi drogę"("Going to school a cat passed my way" instead of "Going to school I seen a cat passing my way" or "When I was going to school a cat passed my way."). The 1st sentence implies that the cat was going to school! That's hilarious!

I also consider idioms fun to figure out. I easily pick the common ones such as "serce na dłoni" ("heart on hand") - I do see a picture of heart on a hand when I hear it but it took just one grandma's explanation for me to pick up that it means "someone very nice" and I remember it since then.
Stuffs like that are not harder than words. When I hear a "ladybug" I see a bug in dress and high-heels too but I know "ladybug" is a commonly used name for Coccinellidaes, right? Idioms are just like that.
As long as I learned the meaning at a point I remember it forever and can accurately use and understand it in conversation.

It just doesn't work with the single use idioms created by random people in a conversation. Stuffs like that still confuse me, especially since I can't ask grandma what it means and google doesn't help either.

When I was a child in elementary school I had to go to speech therapy because I had trouble pronouncing "S" sounds. Now, as an adult, when I am having a lot of anxiety or panic attacks I tend to stutter a bit or have trouble finding the right word.

I used to be pretty non-verbal well into my thirties.
Not sure what happened but then I started talking at some point and now I consider myself to suffer from verbal diarrhoea. Sometime I think it is a form of psychological defense.

I don't have any language impairments.

Difficulty constructing sentences.
Poor word retrieval.
Poor vocabulary.
I often have to look up the definition of complex abstract words even though I've looked them up or used them before to be sure I'm understanding and using them correctly.
I've had these problems all my life, they are not age related.

I was completely nonverbal for a long time and I'm still practically nonverbal. I've never been able to converse in a regular way. I've been getting speech therapy for a while.

me too!
i can NOT remember one time that i have not had speech therapy. i just can't, i've had it every single damn school year since i was four or five, in kindergarten.

Blender, may i ask why did they believe your [s] sound was "incorrect?
in the latter parts of elementary school, i'd be pulled out of class every three weeks or so, to my displeasure, to work on irrelevant s**t like the way my tongue stuck out a tiny bit whenever i'd pronounce [s] and [z]. i didn't care how hot the instructor was, it just felt like a waste of time to practice hiding my tongue behind my teeth when i;d pronounce those sounds. nobody but her pointed it out, and nobody will unless you look very closely but who is going to do that anyway?
(now, my native language is spanish and the [s] in that language is a bit more dentalized to perhaps that is why it appeared "off" to an anglophone. but like i said, not that they'd notice u less you look REAL CLOSE.)

nowadays what we do is at least more useful, like working on tone of voice and volume. this instructor is pretty cute too.

when trying to speak, my words are like confused flies buzzing around incessantly in my head and it can be difficult oftentimes to string them together in a coherent sentence, if, that is, i know what to say in the first place. i freeze when put on the spot and my "best" sentences are often preconstructed in my mind, when i am expecting something to be asked of me or when i want to go up to someone else and say what's on my mind.

so i can be a bit of a slow speaker.

Well, I didn't speak until I was about four or five. I took speech therapy until the eight grade. I do have trouble with certain words like bath or f words. I say them with my tongue between my lips and f words with my lips. Other than that, I wouldn't really say I have a whole lot of language impairments.

I sometimes can't get my words out and go nonverbal, but I began to speak at an early age. I also have a thought disorder and I guess that's kind of like a language impairment because my words and thoughts get all jumbled...?

Kiprobalhato

To this day I am not sure why they thought my "S" sounds were incorrect. I guess I must have had a lisp of some sort, but I did not perceive it at the time. I remember being upset at the injustice. The speech lady told me that my teeth had to be together to do it right. I eventually began to do it that way to accommodate her and she eventually stopped making me go to speech therapy. Even now, thirty some years later, I still make the "S" sounds by rote the way that she taught me.

I was in speech therapy as a kid because I had problems pronouncing certain sounds like S, Th, & Z. I also have problems with stuttering & slurring when nervous due to a tremor disorder that can affect my voice thou that's a lot better nowadays than it used to be.

i see, perhaps they thought i had a lisp too but i can't know, also they could have made me gone because of my quietness that made me not able to be understood, clearly that is something that i was better off without but i just don't get why it matters so much to have a lisp. it's good you got so escape that, since clearly you didn't want it. i'm still waiting!
i should have thought of faking to accommodate speech therapists myself.

For about two years, starting when I was six I think, I was sent to speech therapy. I can't remember anything about the teacher or the course, there are lots of gaps in my childhood and teenage memory and I basically can't remember anything from when I was five or younger, but I do remember that she taught me some language devices like what an acronym, antonym, antecedent, colloquial, idiom, synonym, alliteration, or antithesis is. My mother told me what I was really in the class for: stuttering, a lisp, and also conversation skills. Can't remember myself why I was there because from what I do remember it appears I was more interested in learning about language than using it well. As far back as I can remember I had an expansive vocabulary and could read pretty much anything, but I had to stop a lot and think when trying to talk with people, I stuttered and had a lisp, and there was considerable anxiety.

Now you could never tell I had any of those symptoms. I still get some anxiety unless I am medicating, and it isn't all that much. The language I use can be a bit formal but it isn't so much that it's all that noticeable. There is some technical language that gets sprinkled in and if someone is genuinely interested sometimes I come out with a torrent of it. Also I still have to pause to think and sometimes I just don't have a clue what to say. Sometimes I just don't know how I feel and/or what the person wants/expects me to say.