I believe I might have echolalia...

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Anyone else speculate that they might have immediate or delayed echolalia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echolalia

I get the feeling after reading numerous websites concerning echolalia that it mostly applies to LFAs or LFA/HFA children. Damn! Why can't they be more specific about what type of autistics it affects?! If anyone knew any more specific info on it, I would appreciate hearing it.

Usually not out loud and usually my own words and thought and not those of others.

Some of the common ones from the past were "kill everybody",
," machining asymmetric centers","I should kill myself", lately its "I'm worth x dollars" x usually being a lot more than I have. I say them when I have negative thoughts. I have become aware of it in a CBT/ Buddhism kinda away and I tell myself now "that money does not make the man and if the poorest man in the world and the richest want to change the status quo of the universe they got about the same shot"

at my job... when i am listening to instructions/protocols for something i will have to do in the near future...

i tend to repeat the words the person is saying to me in my mind... it's kinda musical... like it starts going in rounds...

i've always related it to staying afloat... like i'm trying to keep all their words on the surface of my mind... so i can kinda hear them all at once and piece all the words together visually... it's like making a collage and all the words (i keep floating within reach) so i can piece them together to make a pic of what i gotta do in my mind... takes a lil bit of time while i juggle all the words and put them in order so to speak as i place them around each other... so the phrases just kinda keep repeating until i've assimilated them.

i do something similar when i "translate" foreign languages... but i think that's slightly diff.

I have an uncanny ability to mimic intonations and accents while singing songs and reciting movie/TV quotes. And I recite said quotes almost constantly. I think this may be some form of echolalia, not true echolalia, but I'd say it's definitely something.
-OddDuckNash99-

I too can imitate tone and expression of others almost perfectly. People love asking me to do impressions, especially george bush. But echolalia, no, I dont thnk I have it, but maybe a little bit. Sometimes I take on the persona of another person, their voice and mannerisms for a time, such as someone on tv. But not quotations.

The closest thing I have is to say one of several words or phrases uncontrollably at given triggers. I do not repeat them , simply say one of them a single time. The triggers are sometimes visual, others are internal (like i think of something). The words have some significance for me in that they are from some of my favorite TV shows, or simply "meow".

Oh, sometimes the number $455,000 runs through my mind repeatedly (and i notice that I say it out loud when it does); for a while I thought maybe it was the annual installment of a lottery I was going to win; now I have no clue where that amount came from.

The only other message I have spontaneously "heard" in my mind was "please stand by..." when I flew to LA for my friend's wedding and felt out of place. Occasionally, I will hear a name or a place on the news in the morning and will find myself repeating that all day long; it drives me crazy. Whether any of that qualifies as "Echocalia" I do not know, but that's what I have.

I think I might have it...sometimes I repeat what people say right after they say it. Other times I randomly say stuff i've seen on random internet flash movies.

it manifests sometimes in useless and sometimes, hell, often, frustrating ways

I do this, too, but in the context of the quotations. I'm listening to my Chicago soundtrack- doing it right now... I guess I forgot to mention that I mimic gestures and facial expressions. I like doing that even more than the accents/intonations because you can do them when listening to your music with people around, when you can't sing. And sometimes I'll get a quote stuck in my head, and I just will not remember where it's from. I can hear the intonation perfectly, but I can't think for the life of me where it originated. So, I have to say it over-and-over in my head, until I figure out what movie/TV show it was said in, what character said it, and why it was said (what was going on in the scene). These, of course, are only for shows/movies that I only casually watch- I'd NEVER forget quotes from A Beautiful Mind. (It's probably pretty obvious that this is what I quote most often.) One time last year, I had some three-word phrase stuck in my head for three days. I finally found out that it was from Degrassi one day in the shower. That was pretty tortuous. I didn't think about much else...
-OddDuckNash99-

Yes, I repeat phrases I like frequently, mainly from video games.

Aw man, I do that too. I just never thought much of it. TBH I don't think in my case there's anything wrong with it, I just sometimes think about the game I played or whatever and how it excited me, and end up repeating some of the phrases.

But what I don't understand is how this isn't something normal.

Yeah I have echolalia, or so everyone tells me, I don't always notice I'm doing it. But it's normal for me cos, hey, I've always done it.

What's echolalia?

Echolalia: Habitual repetition of spoken phrases. (ie. Repeating and / or mimicking the last phrase or word you hear.)

Yes. I got it. I don't care. It helps me to listen. (And besides, I don't make any apologies for anything "odd" that I sometimes do.)