AT what age did you start speaking?

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My sister started speaking at 9 months. I didn't speak words until 24 months, at which time I made up my own words. My speech started developing after that. Evidently late talking and making up unintelligible words indicate auditory processing disorder.

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I'm not sure, but I know I started talking before I was 1, and long before I learned to walk...

My mother told me that I taught myself to talk as though I was taking a vocabulary test. I would listen intently to adults talking, and if I heard a word I didn't recognize I would repeat it to myself over and over, and then use it in a new sentence haha.

Example-

Adult: blah blah blah -he burst through the door- blah blah.
Baby-me: burst...burst...burst...burst...burst...burst...buuurst... the boy who was buried alive suddenly burst from the ground and scared his friends.

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Started talking at two years old, but the speech was well developed from the start.

Not too early, maybe about 2 years old. I was more fond of introspection.

I started talking at a normal age but didn't have reciprocal conversations until I was 6 or so.

Didn't speak until I was 3 and a half years old.

Four years old, but I could read earlier. It took therapy; the therapist thought I was mentally ret*d. I guess it dawned on the professionals around here that autism existed some time after 1990; too late for me.

I asked my mum and she said that my first understandable word (not 'mama' or 'dada') was between 8 and 10 months old. My first word was eyes, which is weird because apparently I hardly looked anyone in the eye. I started using 3+ word sentences at about 18-20 months old. I have this on video. I'm not sure if it's normal or early but I know it's not late.

I said next to nothing until I was about 2 and a half, then immediately started talking in full paragraphs. I'm the youngest of two, so I most likely processed language by watching my older brother.