echolalia

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When I was a kid I repeated what I hard immediately after I had heard it to make sense of it, because it was hard to understand it so fast. I can remember it and that's where what I do today comes from (repeating everything in my head to understand it). Teachers thought I was ridiculing them because I did it all the time.

That would explain why several people do have suggested some echolalic tendencies even today. I still tend to script (I mean that I repeat something someone else has said in a similar situation before) when I talk A LOT.

I have a very mild/casual echolalia...so casual in fact, that I only recently noticed that I kinda have it...and it only happens sometimes...but I do repeat phrases as part of the process of processing/responding to them...and when i get excited, it might happen more spontaneously.... i guess it counts as echolalia...sometime i do it unconsciously, and sometimes I do it to make sure I heard correctly because I do also have mild central auditory processing difficulty as well sometimes..

I also have a tendancy to repeat myself over and over...and over....but I don't know if that has anything to do with echolalia...other than the fact that it might take me a while of vocalizing the same thought before I am aware that the thought has gotten through.

omg my older brother complains that i act imature when a family joke happens like my mum will make a strange action and i keep repeating it as laughing... or i'll repeat punchlines of other people's jokes.

I don't know if this is it too but people will use long words eg...'patronising or ironic' and i repeat them where i think they fit to express how i'm feeling but my brother tells me i'm using the wrong word in the context of the convo (see i did it there lol context i have no idea if context is right)
when its not appropriate.

my thoughts can kinda spin around like they are in a dryer, and so can words and phrases....so I will go over them and over them....but I don't think this is related to echolalia....so I don't know why I am bringing this up in the echolalia thread.

Palilalia? Maybe? But the description could be everything of course.

Anyway, good point, I do repeat myself frequently for no apparent reason.

I can say the same word/sentence over and over and over again. I can hardly stop it.

But I got good at keeping it in my head and not saying it out loud. I need to say it, but yeah, I can say it in my mind and need to pay attention that my lips won't move or that I don't suddenly speak out loud.

It's like repeating a nursery rhyme more than 5-20 times until I can stop myself.

I do this but not all the time and I don't know why I do it when I do and why only on those occasions.
I do both of them but not severely.

So scripting is a form of echolalia? Huh. I had no idea. I used to do that quite a bit when I was little. I still do it sometimes every now and then.

Of course. Delayed echolalia mostly, nowadays; I repeat phrases I like over and over again (it's non-communicative speaking). I have palilalia too; it's evident in my writing too.

It's more of an Autism thing than Asperger's, for what it's worth.

Actually, echolalia is involuntary; it's not a way to process information, but rather a verbal tic. I have a similar condition called palilalia, in which I involuntarily repeat my own words.

Is (repeated) post rehersal of lines in a conversation considered palilalia? That's something I do as well as reherse things I may or may not say in the furure (repeatedly). Echolalia is also something I do, but my dad who seems a little aspie but far more NT than me does this alot more. I feel like such a hypocrite when it starts to annoy me when he does it.

I repeat things when I write a long essay my mum shows it me later when she spell checks my essays like i say.. "the girl was not not going out" but i thought that was dxylexia

A son of a female friend has echolalia so seriously that he copies my son when they are playing, it is definitively more than mirroring. It is kind of cute, and I am fine with it.

However, what really scared the s**t out of me is that he says "daddy" to me every time they visit us. That sounds very strange, and at first I thought his dad was an j.rk, but that may not be the case: it is echolalia.

There are different types of echolalia. It can be involuntary, like a tic, or it can be used as a way of processing. I tend to do it in my head - I have taught myself not to do it out loud, but sometimes do it out loud if I'm a bit overwhelmed. I do it a lot if the person has an accent - I like to say the words to myself in the accent, so I kind of do the tongue movements quietly in my mouth. I guess I just like to internalise different ways of saying things.

I do this all the time but not out loud (I think) except for punchlines which I'll repeat the part I found funny It used to be much worse mostly when I was really stressed out I'd repeat a word or phrase or sound in my head over and over for days and it felt as if it was connected to tongue thrusting (pushing tongue against teeth) in some way. Defo felt like a tic in the way you can't stop it then it just stops on it's own.

Just realised the tongue thrusting was probably a way of stopping myself saying it out loud.

Immediate echolalia - no, I don't do this and am not aware that I ever have.

Delayed echolalia - yes, definitely. I repeat funny or interesting phrases to myself, and like the Wiki article mentions, things like commercials and scenes from TV and movies (with the appropriate voices/accents).

Sometimes I get the melody of songs stuck in my head and find myself making up new lyrics to them on different subjects. One is really bad and has been stuck for about three years now.

I have immediate echolalia, not so much for words as for sounds, particularly animal sounds. I have an uncontrollable need to copy them when I hear them. I will repeat catchy things I hear, especially in other languages. I also have an uncontrollable impulse to read things like road signs out loud, again particularly in other languages. I know that's how very small children learn language, but I might be getting just a tad old for this - I am almost 550 months now.

Delayed echolalia accounts for a large portion of my daily vocalisations. Even in ordinary conversations, I tend to frequently insert movie lines and song lyrics when the meanings fit. More commonly, I'll just out of nowhere repeat something I once heard. And having anyone engaged in conversation, or even nearby, is not a prerequisite for my speaking.

I also can't help but hearing alternative lyrics to songs, and there is always a song playing in my head. Some days the automatic parody generator is in full gear; other times it is more suppressed.