Repeating my sentences.

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I sometimes just cant stop myself from being repetitious in speech.I am like this in thought so it comes out when i talk sometimes.At times i also say the same thing in a few ways.Does anyone else do that or know how to stop it happenning?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palilalia

i've done this for most of my life. you have to make a really hard effort to not do it, and even then it doesn't always work. i don't know of a way, really, to make it stop every time.

i do notice that i'll repeat if i'm more nervous, and it's less likely to happen when i'm really relaxed.

Yes, I did that before I taught myself not to(amazing what mockery can do), although I still do it sometimes. In my case, it was pure palilalia, not even rephrasing anything, just repeating it back to myself.

I'm not sure I can give any tips for getting rid of it. Recognizing you have it is a good start; try to repeat what you say back to yourself in your head; it'll be noisy in there, but at least you'll look more normal. In my case I didn't even really realize I was doing it, so once I learned to see that, I found I could suppress it. I don't know how well it will work, but try to pay more conscious attention to your speech? Tics and irregularities will tend to pop up more if you let yourself speak impulsively.

When I was a kid, I would often reflexively mouth either the whole sentence or just the last word silently after saying it. I stopped doing so around the age of 7 or 8, I think. This may not be the same thing, but it sounds similar.

A question: What are you thinking about when you do that? My son does this a lot, particularly when he seems nervous. Do you not remember having said the same thing a few seconds ago? Or, do you find the repetition comforting? Or, do you simply feel that you should say something and repeat because you aren't sure what to say? Or, is it just that you are unsure whether or not the other person heard you the first time? Or, is it something else?

My reason for asking is simply that I want to understand my son better.

I do this all the time, everybody teases me about it, and im sitting there like huh what, i dont even realize it sometimes.

i have noticed that having someone respond to my original statement will keep me from repeating it. my mother, when i was young, was almost deaf, so it may have been a mechanism i learned to do to make sure i got an answer out of her. or it may just be a nervous tic. i'm not sure which. but if i say something and the person i'm speaking to responds with an answer, and i'm not nervous at the time, i do not repeat.

Last edited by Nan on 07 Feb 2008, 12:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Yeah I do that! Didn't put any thought into it until I was reading about possible AS symptoms and got to this one. I started thinking more about it and have done when it's actualy just happened and think it's common when I'm anxious. I often repeat what I said with different tone or emphasis on words or even change words (or the sentence altogether), As far as I've noticed I only say it quieter and to myself but I think it would be noticable.

I've cut it down a fair bit by realising as I'm about to say it and doing it in my head instead, as twoshots says.

I think you may have something there, not really noticed it until you said it but I think that's when it mainly happens to me. It never happens when I'm relaxed!

When i repeat myself i am also repeating my thoughts because its my thoughts that im speaking.Sometimes i can be stopped if someone answers me but not always.Someone was making fun of me a while back and i only realised later on.She kept saying the same thing back in answer everytime i said the same thing.I can become aware of things that have been said and things ive said more when im going to sleep at night and thinking.
I have repeated myself when i have said something and had no answer,i like to know ive been heard or at least that the other person isnt egnoring me.Infact i would rather be insulted than not get a verbal answer.

I do this but it's a bit different.
I only really do it in my head. I've only ever done it aloud 3 or so times, mostly it's just with random thoughts.
When I'm thinking something to myelf I'll repeat it 2 or 3 times without meaning to. I'll start a thought and then halfway through stop and repeat the last few words or so until I have to focus and stop myself from repeating forever. It get's really annoying having to do this countless times a day.

Maybe it's something OCD related, I don't know. I don't really control it and there doesn't seem to be any reason for it. I'm not trying to figure something hard out, and I'm not distracted. It's more like I get stuck on something and can't move on without having to force myself to tear away from the repeating thought.

Really weird...

I've done this with other peoples sentences sometimes. (Echolalia) I don't know why.