Your Memories as a young child

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I had severe receptive language delays so at that age I was learning to put echolalia together in patterns that were similar to what others used but I had almost no comprehension or even awareness of what language was.

I keep seeing the acronym "NT" what does it stand for and what does it mean?

when did you become aware of the significance of language and how did you begin talking? Was echolalia a way of saying "i don't know"?

you pronounciation sounds very much like my sons'. when did your phonics improve, and how?

thank you very much special, i just want to see my son improve. although i am very patient and assured he will be fine, i am just ever excited for the day that him and i can exchange a conversation.

i thought about those things, i had my son's blood tested for any sensitivity to gluten/casein, fruits, sesame seeds, dust, insects, etc, and they all came back negative.

as far as the mercury testing, i am doing research to where i can get him tested for that. my insurance is very restricting.

serenaid; i have heard cases where kids regressed from that. everyone is indeed different and we usually only hear cases of it working and not the other way around. so we must be careful of what we obtain on the internet because we cannot determine the numbers of how many people tried it vs how many improved.

thank you for your generous input! your contention of my son likely seeing things in a quantifiable way makes a lot of sense. i have to add that when i do get angry and yell at him, he always laughs and smiles at me, as if he enjoys it. im not sure how to react.

what made you begin to speak?

I learned about language slowly and inconsistently. Sometimes I would even learn it and forget it. And gradually the meaning just seeped in more and more. Like I would slowly associate groups of words with situations or with other groups of words.

As for echolalia what happened was after I lost speech my parents were instructed to make me say things in order to get things. But all I learned was to repeat sounds. I also learned to associate some sounds with others so I actually learned to say words before I learned the meanings. This is common in hyperlexic children, we learn everything backwards from usual. (I could also associate written words with sounds before I learned the meaning of either one.)

So basically it was a lot of haphazard trial and error and eventually things sort of fell together more or less. The problem was though that by the time I permanently learned how to put words to my thoughts, my learning of speech had set my brain into a mode where speech was only sometimes communicative. And that combined with losing speech to a rare autism-associated movement disorder means I type to communicate because that more consistently means what I am thinking.

I still struggle with comprehension (I spend most of my time in a mental state where language may as well not exist and it takes effort to understand). And if I am tired or stressed I may still lose the ability to use words and/or use words that sound plausible but don't mean what I am thinking. But most of the time I can communicate okay.

NT stands for neurotypical. i.e., people without autism. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, I'm just new to this site too.

I've noticed with my son that he will at times keep pushing until we get upset. Then after we do, he calms down. It's almost like he views that as an end to the problem and he can then relax.

Ear cleaning, Probably not the best approach but that is when my words improved, for me I was extremely allergic to alot of household items, and the doctor said I had alot of wax so they cleaned my ears which I did not enjoy and my words came out better. My ears had to adjust cause it was as if they were turned up all the way up to max volume but since the cleaning happened I was hyper-sensetive to sound.

I don't recommend unless by doctor's examination, I don't know if anyone else had the same solution as I did but it worked for me.

My son also had speech issues. It was brought out when he was in preschool. We hired a speech theropist and it helped immensly. Within a year or so he was speaking better than most other kids.

I remember being able to speak. I just didn't say much, because I didn't want to bore the people around me. Once I said something trivial to someone, I didn't say the same thing to that person, again for a couple of weeks. I was very quiet and laid back. I still am.

I did the same. I put my finger in the hot stove and go "ow" and mom would tell me she told me it was hot and I would say I wanted to see how hot it is. So even though she told me why to not touch the stove, I wanted to touch it anyway.

Jenvi/Aspidad

You do know that whilst we appreciate you are trying to ask some serious stuff , at the same time we trying to show you our sense of humor that goes with that understanding. I mean, you do know there's layers and layers of humor in most of what is written here, mostly self referential, and that most of us can relate to instantly. It's also about showing you what it is like to be on the outside of that instant formation theory of anothers mind, thing.

No one here, I don't think will ever be deliberately unkind to you, you are raising one of us, and when you get to a certain age , and have raised kids of your own, you really appreciate what other parents are going though.

Bear ( not Bear mind-man at MIT) in mind NT has multiple meanings depending on which context it is used in. One one extreme you have it almost as a term of endearment by people-watching anthropological Aspies on the other you have Aspie Separatists who would Skynet the lot of you. I like anthropology. I like some NTs, so do most of us, you are just a little, (not friking,) weird ,that's all.

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