At what age did your child say his first word?

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I'm told I began speaking around 10 mos. Supposedly that's why my mother didn't believe the pediatrician when he suggested I was 'autisic' at age 6 (in the 1960's). Even back then he knew there were "different types." I got another dx when I was 13. Mom couldn't get past the not talking thing, and I was never told about the dx. I didn't learn of Asperger's until college (in my 30's, and in the 1990's). I mentioned it to an older sister who said, "Oh, where did you hear that, that's some kind of autism, isn't it? They used to say that about you and it always made Mom real mad."

I'd rather has AS than the unconquerable "shyness" or "perverse vanity" that I was always accused of having. I'm more socialable now than before.

I don't know when I said it, but my first word was 'car'.

All four of my kids spoke in complete sentences before age one. According to my mother, I did the same.