Language Impairments?

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I've always struggled to find the right words to express what I'm thinking. It can take me a while which isn't good for verbal communication.

I did not speak until much later as well. I have DCFS records stating that from the time I was 3 and on, I had difficulty with verbal communication. I was in one-to-one speech classes til I was around 10. I still spoke abnormally til I was around 13. Now, I have no speech difficulties (but only thanks to a bunch of classes and intercessions).

I have a number of minor speech impediments.

My biggest challenge is finding the right words to express myself - especially how I feel - but that's just part and parcel of being autistic.

I had them as a child. I also stuttered and talked fast. I still talk fast and loud. I also said some letters wrong as a kid, I had troubles with the R sound. I used to leave endings and beginnings off of words when I was real little because I didn't hear those sounds so I was in speech for that and my teachers and parents had to stress the sounds so I could hear them such as 'th.' I was seen as having a profound language delay so I didn't understand lot of things or comprehend so it made me not appear smart or bright and they didn't know this until I was eight and realized how much I was being held back in my class so I was able to go to mainstream and be with the normal kids all the time. I think it also affected my learning too because I didn't understand lot of stuff the teacher said. They also thought I had ADD. I think my language would be at normal now though I still have troubles understanding what I am reading or what people say to me. I just go with it and not say anything. I have never asked if mine is still delayed. I didn't even know mine was still delayed as a child same as for communication. I had been talking a lot since I was six and I was still delayed. Now I sound like I have an accent and have sounded this way since I was six. Before that I seemed to have talked in a different tone. I always sounded like I was whining. I still have to look words up but I think that is normal or else dictionaries wouldn't exist.

I went to speech therapy in high school. Now that he people I interact with are getting older and more hard of hearing I am often asked to repeat myself