Is this freaky or what...

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I got a bit of a surprise today... I found out that I started speaking by three months of age??! ! That's really, really early! Most kids are a year old before they blabber out their first words Is this common in aspies? or am I just a freak of nature I don't think I'm smarter than anyone else... but what does it mean?

That is crazy!

Maybe you were meant to be a prodigy child.

Sure it was a word I have seen my brother think his kid said a word, sound's nothing like a word...

What did you say?

# Makes gurgling, cooing, or babbling sounds by age 3 months.
# Turns head to quiet sounds or whispers by age 9 months.
# Makes "ma-ma" and "da-da" sounds by age 12 months.


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At 0-4 months babies gurgle, and coo (vowel sounds such as "oooh" and "aah"). And at 4-6 months babies may start to babble (adding consonants: "gaga," "dada"). Then comes 6-12 months where babies babble and enjoy vocal play as they experiment with a range of sounds. At 12-18 months is when toddlers begin to use sound in a meaningful way.

The voicebox descends during 'the first year of life', allowing a pharynx to develop and all the sounds of human speech to be formed.. that would have to be developing at a high rate, just saying since I know my brother thought his kid was saying words, and bit like a wind blowing where you think you hear something....
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I just asked my mom and dad, I was definitely speaking real words! Just the usual things like Mama and Dada and simple stuff. Trust me, even I didn't believe it at first, but I've read that it is possible. I had also toilet-trained myself by 18 months So I take it that it's not a usual aspie trait? Hmmm...

I couldn't talk until after I was 3 years old...

Naw, it IS a usual aspie trait(not paralleling the normal development. Things may run faster, or APPEAR delayed. Actually, AS is supposed to have you at least equal in language by 2. I, and some here, apparantly had selective mutism! With me, it lasted until I was about 2. My mother said that I didn't say anything until then, and everything was clear after that. So I started speaking English reliably before most kids(By 2 most kids speak simple sentences, simple words, and only 50% intelligible), but didn't say "my first word" until long after most kids. The first words just happened to be in sentences.

BTW even Einstein had selective mutism, and several here did, so I guess I am in good company. After all, you can't do calculus without knowing math, and you can't speak without knowing the words, so we could obviously speak earlier.

BTW. They are changing the meaning of terms AGAIN, so here is what wikipedia says about this:

I didn't speak until I was three. People were concerned that there might be something wrong with me. Imagine that. Then I broke into complete sentences.

I couldn't speak until I was three or three and a half, either. They were concerned I might be mentally ret*d as well as having cerebral palsy. Then, as my mother puts it, I exploded in a torrent of speech and suddenly I couldn't be made to shut up.

I started speaking at the normal age. My mother said that I was very interested in books from the time I was born and supposedly could identify records by their pattern before I was a year old. I don't know if I was an early reader, but I always did have high reading scores in school.

Before I make my statement: My parents were never married and they separated right after I was born.

When I lived with my mother for three years, I was developing fine, and on time, and I was talking, but when my father took my mother to court and got custody of me, I quit talking for a while, then my father claimed he taught me how to talk.

B*st*rd.

I said my first word at seven months.

I did when I was 18 months..., and I`m deep on the spectrum.