Do any of you have echolalia?

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Used to when I was little.

One of my first words was just an average commercial I heard on TV.

I repeat stuff I've heard and mock it by impersonating whatever I've heard or wind someone up by repeating it to someone over and over until they get angry with me and I reassure them by saying "I'm just messing with you."

A lot of low-functioning autistics that I've seen have this (they frequently recite TV commercials, scripts, etc. over and over again, even in public), but do any Aspies have this?

Some do, some don't.

Tim

I don't have that, but I often experience a similar thing Palilalia (repeat your own words). Normally its just in very non-social interactions and I just unvoluntarily whisper, or half-mouth the words I just said.

I can recite pretty much anything I've heard a few times on command. But yes, sometimes they echo in my head for days (commercial jingles, random words, my own thoughts, things I've read...) and when that happens I'll sometimes find myself mouthing / whispering them if I'm not careful, over and over like they do in my head, but I can usually keep that under control - I'm a little sensitive about it since I got teased as a child for talking to myself by the other kids. I would curl up in my seat on the school bus all alone, and try to be invisible, staring out the window while they pointed and laughed...

This seems more like an aspie thing, because Albert Einstein had it!

Yeah I've read several places that Palilalia is common with Aspies.

Under stress or have a panic attack I find that I repeat things I'm reading.

I have had ALL of that!

The repeating in my mind of certain things is the most common. APPARANTLY, that isn't strictly autistic though.

The next is probably repeating my own words under stress, etc...

Next reading

Next what someone else said.

The repeating of my my own words is probably the most common, but not very. I don't think anyone even noticed. And what I am thinking may have NOTHING with where I am at. So forget about it supporting freuds theories.

Steve

I find myself doing that too. I don't remember doing it when I was younger, but maybe it was happening and I just wasn't aware of it til now. You said you've read that it's common with aspies, interesting.

Another thing (in response to the original poster), I also have a coworker who's very likely AS/HFA. When you're talking to her, she'll repeat the last couple of words that you said, then continue on with her response after that. She doesn't do it all the time and strangely, stress seems to make it go away. (You'd think stress would make it worse, but overall her communication gets more normal.)

Nah. Sometimes I repeat words over and over; but they're usually words I've come across and strike me as interesting as fun to say. I don't do that in public, though, or if I do it's under my breath--I know how weird people think it is!

If someone says something to me that I don't understand, I sometimes repeat it.

I used to memorize TV commercials and repeat them when I was a kid...you could yell "ice-cream" at the top of your lungs and I would ignore you...but have a favorite commercial come on and I would come running from 3 rooms away.

I have both, pretty bad, and it doesnt help my cause when you're over-focused ADD either.

One time I kept repeating the same line from a song over and over and over and over again, literally for hours. It annoyed my sister very much. It's usually music, for every 100 times i repeat something in a hour long span i have it repeated in my mind a 1000.

mmm do i have it? I have learned what to say to people when somehting bad happens and then I learned I still don't undertsand empathy even though I say things like"Oh I'm sorry" "ouch" "that sux". I learned them from other people. I do like caring about other peopel and like being a good person. I tend to repeat phrases or words even though I don't understand what they mean but know how they are used. I try not to do that of course because what if I use the phrase wrong or the word wrong. Then I make a fool of myself.

I did, when I was younger. My cousin phoned me on the phone, to wish me a Happy Birthday, when I was twelve. I've repeated the greeting back to him, because I was very nervous.