I believe I might have echolalia...

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Someone I work with has echolalia. Simple conversations can be quite difficult, for example;

Me; Would you like tea or coffee?

Peter; Tea or coffee

Me; Which one, tea or coffee?

Peter; Tea or coffee

Me; Coffee or tea?

Peter; I want coffee.

Reversing coffee/tea can usually get results.
Peter (not his real name for privacy reasons) also repeats advertising slogans from the seventies; Beans means Heinz, clunk click every trip, and all because the lady loves Milk Tray are all favourites. These phrases can be repeated constantly throughout the day. If someone is listening he will say them aloud, if there is no-one to listen, he will often mumble them to himself.

I think of Peter as having ASD with learning difficulties rather than being LFA,

When I was a child, I would mouth my last few words right after I said them. It really freaked people out, but now I'm 30 and I dont do that anymore, but I do usually remember the last thing I hear, the last phrase or something, and often it turns into a musical motif that plays over and over in my head.

Oh yeah.

It was worse when I was younger, but I still repeat what anyone says to me. I tend to just mouth the words, now, though, because my speech pathologist(for a lisp, not echolalia) thought it was stuttering, and told me to just mouth the words.
It's really not that conspicuous, but I've never met anyone who has it.

Yes, I have had it since I was 3rys of age, but I try not to let it hinder me in my life from the general context.Anyways, Many autistic people have unique traits of their own which is nothing to be ashamed of therefore, I simply say I'm okay with being who I am.


Professor X

"The reverse NEVER happens... None of this is true! Say goodbye to classical reality, because our logic collapses on the subatomic level... into ghosts and shadows."

I know I have echolalia. Often it helps me remember or understand what someone is saying.

My mum said, "You realise you sometimes repeat other people's words?" Like this was something I was supposed to stop.

I said, "Yeah? And? Live with it."

Echolalia is also something which apparently happens in Tourettes Syndrome -- not just autism.

Sometimes when I'm thinking the words I think will spill out through my mouth -- so it's like I'm talking to myself. (For some reason this doesn't happen so much when I'm writing or drawing but it does when I'm walking or doing office work.) Dad says it's cute. He's much more accepting of difference than what my mum is.

sometimes people ask me if i just said something, and i am unsure if i did! i think maybe i say stuff quietly when i stop paying attention to the outside world.

just curious: how do u say the word "echolalia" ? i sounded it out to something like "E. coli" but the last sound really stretched out.

I had this when I was two.

Mom: Do you want a cookie

Me at two: Do you want a cookie

I'd repeat everything they said back to them, until they put me in speech therapy and in preschool at a young age.

I know what it is now. I think my step-dad's mother may have it.

I've developed the habit of doing it subvocally when I'm around other people. I can always make myself stop entirely if I'm paying attention to it, but there are times when I'll start up again almost immediately if my focus shifts to anything else.

Sometimes I'll repeat phrases related to something I don't even realize I'm thinking about until I hear myself. I kind of like having it as a stream of consciousness monitor when that happens, but just as often I'll babble some random phrase from a commercial or something completely unrelated to any thought process.