AT what age did you start speaking?

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According to my mother, I started talking at a reasonably normal age, maybe a bit early. But I didn't use sounss or words - I started speaking in complete sentences. "Put the milk on the table" as opposed to "mama, dada."

I'm told that when I walked into a pediatrician's lobby at the age of 3 or 4, my mother asked me if I remembered the place, and I said "I think I remember having been here before," which turned a few heads.

3 or 4. I had echoliala until my teens.

I talked on time or slightly early. Then I lost it somewhere in the 15-18 month range. By the time I could speak again (nobody tells me when but it was late) it was echolalic and I had zero comprehension. I learned to respond by combining patterns of words. Still with no comprehension. Comprehension seeped in quite late, and is still behind my ability to type. I began losing speech again at puberty and by the age of 21ish could no longer use it for communication even a little. (But even at my best only a small amount of my speech matched my thoughts -- speech was like solving a puzzle.)

The part about mimicking commercials made me laugh. Apparently I started talking early, constantly, and in complete sentences. There was a TV in my house, which went away about an hour after I walked into the room where my mother was and said, "Does your husband need a laxative?" Apparently there was a commercial that had that line in it, and although I was far too young to know what that meant, I was far too capable at a very young age of repeating anything and everything I heard.

This is how my daughter was! Oh how many times has she embarrassed me, let me count...
She would try to finish my sentences starting at age 6 because I have trouble getting things out verbally. I also will not ask for help in a department store, so at age 4 she was flagging down employees and asking for me. She could determine who worked there and politely ask for assistance that early.

Oh, that is priceless! And never knowing why it was OK to hear it on the radio but not say it in everyday situations! You were so fortunate that the source was immediately squelched! I am still plagued by "ear worms" that get into my head.

I started talking very late. I had my first real sentence at 7 years of age. Anything before then was just 1-2 word sentences.

2 or 3 years old. If that counted as talking? More like saying words when I needed things like food or toys. I wouldn't just talk for the sake of it.
At 8 I still talked like a five year old.
Didn't talk to people outside my family until I was about 11 or 12. Improved a bit more at 14/15 and could comfortably talk to people in my 20's.

Not sure when I started with single words, but by 9 months I was speaking in full sentences and asking questions.

I might have been a little early, or I might have been on time. I started saying words before one year & was speaking in sentences by before two years. (According to my mom lol, because I can't remember )

I think at 9 months I said basic words, my first one was "dog." I can't remember when I started using full sentences, but I believe that was a bit early too. I just remember my mom saying that I spoke more adult-like at a younger age than other kids.

I believe I spoke my first words at about ten months. I started putting two words together at fifteen or sixteen months. I know that I was speaking more than a hundred words at eighteen months - my Dad made a list of all the works he heard me speak. I was speaking in sentences by the time I turned two. When my parents took me on vacation, two or three months after my second birthday, they tried to get me into the hotel swimming pool. Back then, I objected to being submerged in cold water, and reportedly told my parents,"I doesn't has to go in the pool." In preschool, I was evaluated as a result of various issues I was having in preschool, and I tested significantly above age level verbally. In elementary school, I received resource room because of learning disabilities, and I was the only kid in resource room who did not also receive speech therapy.

I spoke my first sentence, when I was 4, going on 5.

Too early.

I started speaking at the normal age children usually start speaking. However I had a fairly common auditory processing issue which made me difficult to understand.

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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