Is this Echolalia?

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I know this girl with diagnosed AS who will overhear something that someone said and than repeat it like 4 or 5 times, getting quieter each time. Example: someone could say " my grandma gave me this bracelet for my birthday", and she say to herself "my grandma... My grandma.. My grandma...my grandma." Also she will start singing a phrase in a song, and she will sometimes repeat the very last syllable of the last word. Example: let's say this is the line in the song "Shine bright like a diamond." She'll sing the line then would repeat "mond...mond... Mond..mond..mond."

Is what I've described echolalia?

Yup. That's echolalia.

A pretty classic example!

Sometimes people echo words in order to think about them better. Or because they're playing with the sounds. Or because they're using snippets of things they've heard to communicate with, kinda like cutting words out of a newspaper to paste onto paper and make a new message.

Echolalia is usually automatic for me, and the echoes just come out when I hear someone say something, and I usually only echo a word or two of it.

Yep welcome to the echolalia club I do that all the time.

I repeat, the words in the middle, but more so whole phrases. You can tell me that I am, but I won't know. It's a vocal tic for me.

ö___ö;; the more I read, the more I autistic I find out I am.

I thought echocalia was just repeating every single thing back, not just snippets. Wow. Learn something new everyday.

I notice that I do it in my head sometimes too, (get stuck on a word or phrase and it just repeats), do you think it counts equally when verbal and mental?