OliveOilMom
Queen of cans and jars
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Location: Living in Faulkner's nightmare
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 Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 8:35 am Post subject: Question about talking |
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I may be completely blind to this, because I have it. My younger son (17 now) didn't talk until he was almost 3. His first word was "mine" but most of his words were just made up.
He's always been way oversensitive and negative. He's got quite a few sensory things too.
I wonder if maybe he has it too.
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PTSmorrow
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Age: 54
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| I didn't speak until i was four and it always remained strange to me. Reading and writing came quite naturally and i prefer this kind of communication to all other options. Talking feels to me like dancing must feel to a very clumsy person. |
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b9
whatever..
Joined: Aug 15, 2008
Posts: 8373
Location: australia
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 11:31 am Post subject: |
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i never spoke until i was about 4, and i think i remember how i experienced life then.
before i was four, i was able to frown or smile my way to guide my parents to do what i wanted them to do. my needs were very simple.
as i grew older, my tastes were refined and i needed to actually talk to other people in order to achieve what i wanted.
my first utterance was "eggs...scamba" (scrambled) i was told by my mother (while she was alive).
talking is much easier than thinking (in one way), but in a different respect, it is much harder to iterate words that define your thoughts.
my mind does not label every thought i have with a word. i often think for many hours about things that could never be said in words, and i am not in the world of words anyway when i truly think.
one has to use words to bridge the gap between self and others eventually, but i only learned enough to communicate basic things when i was i was about 4, and it was when i was almost 12 that i realized that my verbalized thoughts were well accepted, and more so, in demand. i read many things and learned many words and i spoke to them after i had acquired an adequate vocabulary.
that was when i was 13.
i now can say (convert to words) anything that comes into my mind without much effort.
whether or not others can understand, is their problem. |
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