Anyone have a certain word they tend to repeat?

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Thinking about it for a bit, I realize an infinitely more common one for me is alright. "alright alright alright." although its really just a variation on right. Which is probably why right came to mind first.

It's not an exasperated alright, like "let's get on with it", but really a sort of way of saying "that works". There is usually a positive ring to it.

he was being unintentionally honest, in that the fellow did handle his "package" as well as deal with his "baggage."

Gettin off topic here...



from http://www.jesusandmo.net/2010/05/07/ahem/

Well....let's see....now it's time for the requisite mea culpa speech complete with all the crocodile tears Rekers can muster and a 6-month "rehab" stint with pastor Rick Warren acting as his "spiritual adviser".

And of course...it's time for Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter to perform the intellectual gymnastics necessary to blame the whole thing on liberals, environmentalists, abortionists, etc.....

*yawn*

Next.


America is getting kinda boring and predictable...I wish I could see a UFO or something.

Me too. Especially with the right-wing blowhards.
I've been making raspberries noises a lot lately too. Oh and growling. I make sounds when I'm bored and hyper.

That's what I meant I think I really should have said "stim" lol. I honestly didn't make the connection to stimming until you posted this...
But yes, it is a sort of stim.

In terms of repeated words that even NTs have, I used to say "like" a lot, similar to many in my generation. I finally stopped when I met a guy who couldn't say more than 2 words without saying "like," it was really unbearable. He sounded like a valley girl! "This is like sort of like a like example."

On the topic of stimming, I knew a very jock/bro-ish guy in high school who I suspected had tourettes. He would say "doug" (though he insisted he was saying "dog": "No way doug, I'm saying DOG doug.") He couldn't even say ONE word without saying it. I remember when our math teacher would say something he didn't understand, he would yell out, "DOUG WHAT?!" hahaha. It was very charming, really.
No one really believed me, but I was sure it was tourettes even if he didn't know it, simply because it seemed so uncontrollable. He also seemed embarrassed about it... Whenever anyone asked him about why he was saying "doug" (/"dog"? lol) he would get really defensive. It just seemed like a tic, and someone like me, who has many tics, can recognize my own kind.
I eventually learned around graduation from one of his friends that he did indeed have tourettes! I felt pretty proud of my diagnostic skills haha.



To the people talking about noises they make when upset, I tend to groan...which is a little bit awkward. I've learned to control it, so I don't do it in public, but oh god it builds inside of me. I have to leave the room and go to the bathroom or something so I can make groany noises hahaha. It's like an itch I need to scratch.
Another reason I love having an aspie boyfriend is that I can do all my weird habits/tics around him and he doesn't care, because he understands and has them too. Previous boyfriends of mine have all never said anything about it, but they were so obviously disturbed that I just stopped doing stims/tics around them and had to revert back to my leave-the-room method... So I like that I can make weird noises around my current boyfriend as much as I like and he actually finds it endearing

I do the same thing you do with sounds, and sometimes I get words stuck in my head and say them out loud to myself if I'm alone or I just say them in my head over and over.

Wow. Me too.

That's kind of strange.

I love the doug thing, just sounds kinda cute. I do have noises I make. When I'm sitting at the computer in the evening (when everyone else is asleep, in other words) I make whistling sounds in my throat. I can get very frustrated if I can't make them audible. I notice a lot of stims at that time of day, because I've been bottling them up a lot during the day. Not all day, but a lot. People would think I was nuts seeing me at the computer at night. I don't recall any particular (ooh, that's a good word) words that I favor, so much as sounds... K is a favorite. I don't swear anymore, though I did so for a spell as a teen, but swear words really bother me now, so it's a problem sometimes if I happen across f*** because honestly it's everywhere and has a crispness to the sound that my mouth just wants compulsively to say sometimes, but is so danged crude! I think half of the urge is just that I dislike it so much. Eh, well, adversity can be character-building. It isn't as hard to resist these days, and other words click nicely in the mouth, so I get by.

not so much as a word but as in words...which tend to be.

"how are you?" and "Hi"

Cusswords, slurs, onomatopoeia (the actual examples of it, not the word itself, moo!), boosh, kakaow, "By Thor!", mathematics, huzzah.

I'll repeat the word right sometimes if I'm really frustrated with something. It's pretty rare that I do that though. I haven't done that in quite a while.

Sometimes I'll get a word stuck in my head, or a phrase, and it goes on for hours, sometimes even days, slowly driving me up the wall. Hasn't happened so far this year though, for which I'm grateful.

The word that I find myself saying without any volition is quite embarassing, because it's a pure nonsense word. Huyanama. Sometimes I'll come out with other glossolalia, but that's the one that keeps coming up. Also, sometimes when I'm stressed I'll start speaking one of my secondary languages instead of English, very rapidly, and with terrible grammar, sometimes mixing them up. I've since learned that this is more to do with manic swings in bipolar than AS.

When I trip over something I often say "Ooh la la" and I don't know why.

Oh shut up. I'm just trying to make polite conversation.

Is that one of your regular sayings, or has someone here offended you?