Palilalic speech- Anyone else ever have it?

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I still have some occurances of palilalia (though it was never extreme), however, I have noticed I am usually more one for echolalia or delayed echolalia (from movies and such)-- though the echolalia was never to an extreme and my movie quoting delayed echolalia was usually worked into context.

But I often find myself repeating after my mother or such. I have also always been one to constantly read aloud road signs whenever I am a passenger (I try and tone this down when not with my mother or another close person).

Until I found out about Aspergers, I never thought it at all unusual. And now that I know, I don't let it stop me. They are verbal stims and I find them comforting.

Good for you

I found it wastes energy to try to hold things back. I have no problem with just doing ewhat I want to do as far as stimming is concerned now that I know I won't get locked away for it.

I don't consider palilalia, or echlalia stimming though and though I can hold back some Tourette's symptoms for a while I don't worry too much about doing so for minor things, but the major attacks have to be treated like seizures, so I prefer that they do not happen in public.

My palilalia increases to an extreme level almost when I'm having a bad panic attack.

Yeah, all of my symptoms increase with stress.

Yes, when stressed I exhibit several types of vocal tic including palilalia and echolalia, as well as small motor tics. It's not something I do all the time, but if I'm feeling a little anxious it becomes noticeable. Although it's difficult to stop myself doing it (I can usually supress it for short periods of time but this can cause it to get worse when I can no longer supress it) I do usually manage to do it very quietly.

I find myself doing it occasionally, occasionally.

With me, it's the last word of a sentence that I tend to repeat. I'm glad that it usually happens when I'm talking to myself.

I'm not sure whether this is exactly palilalia, but after I've spoken with someone, I very often find myself repeating the sentences over and over in my head. If I'm on my own and lost in my own head (which is a large percentage of the time) it is incredibly hard to keep from repeating them under my breath. Not a big deal if I'm alone, but awkward when I walk down the hall and only realize I'm doing it when people give me strange looks.

Aeryn

I do seem to repeat myself a fair bit and sometimes people get annoyed eg. my mum because they say "you told me that before".

I repeat things that I say aloud or things other people say in my head; I don't talk much. When I repeat something, I sometimes have to do it three times. I have sort of a stupid reason for that; I tend to think things should be symmetrical. In fact, if it isn't, it sort of sticks out as not being symmetrical. Therefore, I repeat things in threes. And I really, really, really (lol) want to repeat what I said before, but I won't. It's tiresome.

Yup - though I have echolalia too, to far more of an extent. It's worse than having tinnitus when it's words going round in my head (I do have T, just for clarification)

EDIT - Just thought. I do repeat myself far more than I originally thought - it's just come to me. Though I also repeat words (accidentally) when typing too

I used to. Also used to spell the words I repeated. It eventually faded away.

I have that too. Or at least something similar - I can usually control it when other people are around (or if I have to do it, I make sure it's quiet or silent so no one hears it), but when I'm alone I compulsively repeat all or parts of things that I've said recently or even things I've written, perseverating on it. I was always a little disturbed by it - it's good to know there's a name for it and it's a normal aspie thing.

I've been doing the under-the-breath thing since childhood, although it's not as severe now. My parents and sisters did pick up on it but it didn't register as being an AS symptom because nobody knew anything about AS in Australia in the 70's.

Funny thing is that I never thought of it as being abnormal, I just thought of it as checking a sentence before I said it then reviewing it after. I thought that if everybody didn't do it then they should.

This isn't palilalia, but I had the German word "selbverständlich" going quietly through my head all day yesterday. (I had my German oral midterm yesterday and that selbverständlich was a word amidst a dialogue I'd been going over.)

Plus it's just fun to say. So instead of having a song stuck in my head, I had a single word.

I am very pallialic it's one of my comforting habits.