Echolalia in your head?

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There is a member on here whose name (spazergasm) got stuck in my head. I found it incredibly frustrating that I was travelling from one end of the country to the other with the word "spasergasm" echoing through my head. I really wanted to say it, but can you imagine the looks I'd have got!

It's worse when I'm stressed though, and don't have any other outlet. At the moment I'm dealing with stress by practising the same musical pieces over and over on piano and guitar. This seems to be very therapeutic, and verbal echolalia has happily departed. (For now. I expect come Christmas it will be back in full force.)

I get music stuck in my head and phrases.

I find I do especially in a work environment

I do this a lot, but it is not aggravating, it is pleasant. It creates a rhythm where one might otherwise be lacking.

As a teenager I would compulsively count the letters of every word I saw and divide the word into syllables. That wasn't so good, but it did make me extremely good at spelling. I find it confusing these days that I don't always know how to spell something, but I think all in all it's a good thing.

Same here, often with music, talking to myself, talking to others, what i would say to others in some random situation that never comes to pass . . . but it always pops up like someone changing the channel randomly. got annoying when in school and some random song would go through my head during a test (which oddly never happened during math or chemistry exams). Guess it mainly happens when something i dont understand is going on, or when nothing important is taking place (based on what i view as important).

I do this a lot. I don't know what it is related to. I never did, or I don't know that I did echolalia as a child, but I frequently repeat, at least the last few words spoken in my head.

Is getting music stuck in your head the same thing. I thought that related to musical intelligence. I could be wrong, but usually people who get music stuck in their head, also play an instrument, or sing, or are musically inclined.

I think I'm musically inclined but I've gone a different way and developed other talents.

I do this a lot, but mainly when I am feeling under stress or over excited. I do not do it out loud too often though. Is it a form of stimming ?

I have this too, with songs and tv show/movie dialogues. A couple spoken words can trigger an entire song or script page from a show I have watched many times. It really only bothers me when I have a piece of dialogue going through my head and I can't place from where I know it.

Seperately, I don't know if this qualifies as echolalia, but as a child I had a tendency, while someone else was speaking, to repeat the dialogue (in my head) just behind their pace. Back then, I thought I was actually doing it simulataneously (a sort of mind reading, I guess). Took me ages to realize my internal dialogue was slightly delayed.

Could well be. It feels like it sometimes.

Yup, do this all the time. I think it helps me work out the meaning of the words - I have the visual form of Aspergers so I have to try to work out what a word or phrase 'looks like' in a picture. Until I can do that, it just repeats in my brain.

First noticed that I did this on a school trip about 12 years ago.

We were in the southern states and the geography was changing.

I kept repeating "foliage" over and over.

It was a fun word to say. Still one of my favourites.

My teacher on the other hand became concerned.

It was the first time I noticed someone else noticing. Subsequently I noticed how odd this behaviour may seem to others.

Personally its not something that I find troubling.

Except when it can't be controlled. Or whats being repeated isn't a word as innocent as "foliage" but oh, lets say a lyric from a song like "f**k me like an animal" or "naked, drunk and horny, adore me".

Sometimes it has a life of its own and no matter how hard I try it keeps turning its cog. Sometimes it feels necessary to do so verbally, out-loud or under my breath. Even when its not vocal its so pervasive in my mind that I can barely function.

Another trait that's difficult - speech shadowing. Where someone will be speaking to me, perhaps in conversation, or there will be a conversation in a movie, and I find that I am repeating whats being said as its being said.