Ettina wrote:
Maybe it's a variant of echolalia?
its not echolalia, what sounds like is happening is something incredibly common to those who have executive dysfunction issues; a sub concious delaying coping strategy to give the owner of said brain a chance to process the information.
its not only an autistic thing,will find a lot of NTs do it to,especialy those closer to pension age because of the natural worsening of executive function,mum who is mental but definitaly not autistic does this all the time even if its not a question and its just a random word as it takes her time to gain information from the word and will see her mouthing the words that people tell her,as if she is trying to 'feel' them to make sense better.
woe betide anyone doesnt understand her quick enough though.
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