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29 Jan 2011, 2:49 pm

"I repeat myself when I'm distressed! I repeat myself when I'm distressed! I repeat myself when I'm distressed!

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30 Jan 2011, 4:41 pm

Jediscraps wrote:
You may have seen this link. There's some examples of children.
http://www.specialed.us/autism/verbal/verbal11.html

thanks for the link, it was a mind freak for me, opened me up to a lot of things I didn't want to really see about myself, growing up.

I guess I do have this.


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30 Jan 2011, 6:29 pm

Thanks so much for all your responses everyone, you have definitely painted a clearer picture for me :)

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30 Jan 2011, 7:29 pm

Verdandi wrote:
simon_says wrote:
The stranger thing that I do is that I have certain ritualized phrases that I say at times, usually when getting into the shower. I'll often think, "why am I saying that again?", "what does it mean"? I don't know if that would be palilalia or echolalia or fit any of it's variants.


I have these. Mostly quotes I've picked up elsewhere that are completely irrelevant. They'll often pop out when I start thinking out loud (and I usually think out loud), but like you they seem to happen most when I'm about to take a bath or shower.


I have this too. It just happens when I'm waiting to do something, like when I start the microwave. It's very annoying, because it is so boring.



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30 Jan 2011, 7:56 pm

when i was younger i was obsessedb with the movie scared strait and i could recite the whole movie from begining to end in the exaxt pitches and accents as the convicts who told there scary stories to juvinile delinquents.thats classic delayed echolalia i would say everyone on this site does delayed echolalia.there is also imediate echolalia which is usualy seen in younger more severly autistic children who are learning verbal language.this is when they converse with people by saying whatever the other person just said.in the movie rainman when they are in the car and rainman starts imitating the disc jockey on the radio word for word,that was classic imediate echolalia.delayed echolalia is much more common here



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30 Jan 2011, 8:13 pm

Years ago once, but still an adult, all that came out of my mouth was word for word what this guy said to me. I'm still not sure what that was about. I guess it was because I was anxious and didn't know how to respond in that situation or something. I can't remember. He definitely noticed that. He said something about.

Another weird thing I did, and I'm not sure if it's relevant to this thread, but this lady asked me question, which I can't remember, but the basic proper response would have been to say this other guy's name (and probably add more if I was to be more talkative person). But what came out was, "Malcolm in the Middle", a name of a tv show. The guy's name was Malcolm. I felt like such a weirdo when that happened.