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askanautistic:

Some Autistics have a speech delay, some speak at a typical time, some early. I don’t know the ratios though. 

I spoke at a typical time. How about everyone else? Early, typical or delayed speech?

Slightly early (not sure if the speech was real or echolalic), followed by loss of all speech, which turned into a mild delay, and then echolalic speech after that, which evolved eventually into plausible-sounding speech that wasn’t as communicative as it sounded (it was basically super-fancy echolalia, but not always the type used to communicate things, whether it matched my thoughts was pretty random).  Followed by a much more gradual loss of speech starting in adolescence, where I’d have periods of lack of speech that got more frequent and wider and wider over time, so by my early twenties I had no communicative speech and often no speech at all.  I’ve only had real, communicative speech twice since then – once for a few days, once for an hour or two, both in extreme stress situations, neither one something I could control – it left as suddenly as it appeared.  And this is all the short version, the reality is even more complicated.  But basically, right now, I have most of the time no ability to make any sort of speech, but a small percentage of the time I have verbal tics and echolalia that I suppress in front of people and that has no communicative value whatsoever.

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   I don’t know when I started talking comprehensibly, but I knew the letters of the alphabet before I could say them (in a...

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   I spoke at 8 months, apparently going from nothing to full sentences very quickly. But from what my mom describes, it...

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   I apparently spoke very early (full sentences by 18mo), though whether the speech was spontaneous or echolalic, I dunno....

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    Slightly early (not sure if the speech was real or echolalic), followed by loss of all speech, which turned into a mild...

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13. spacedyke reblogged this from lisaquestions and added:

    I started reading very early. I don’t know about speaking.

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    I started talking at 13 months in full sentences, I started picking up words at age four and reading at five.

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    I don’t know exactly when I first spoke, but it was early. I know I talked before I could walk. I didn’t even crawl...

18. ser-ket said: slightly delayed, I was 2, but my speech developed REALLY fast from there.
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    I spoke full sentences before I was a year old, and taught myself to read by age 3.

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    There seems to be a subset of autistic people who are hyperlexic/hyperverbal. I spoke early. My mother taught herself to...

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    On time for recognizable speech (eleven months), but I was speaking in grammatically-correct complete sentences by 2.5...

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    I started talking at about nine months and never babbled at all.

28. chitarra10 said: I spoke very early… I started at 9 months, and carried on conversations at 1 year, and by 3, I was reading and writing. From what I understand, that’s called “hyperlexia.”
29. ask-an-aspergirl said: My mom says I pointed at things while making sounds (family story?). Then I leaped to full sentences. Language development is interesting…
30. kelpforestdweller said: Early
31. immasharpcookie said: Delayed for me, or at least like typical speech. For the longest time I’d only say dada and other basic words, even up to two-three years old if I remember correctly. Even when I started to talk more I mumbled/sometimes made up words
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