Do Aspies ALWAYS escape "language issues"?

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I'm one of those very rare aspies who doesn't.

I had no trouble speaking, but I did have trouble with a couple mile stones I'm not counting some because of my abusive mother, and she thought spanking was a "appropriate" form of potty training. I've always had dysgraphia and it is rather mild, but I can't right long essays very well, because after writing my arm tenses up. I'm confused rather you mean langauge disorders or what?

This is a very good description of what happens to me. I too had this same thought when i read "The Autistic Brain." I never realized prior to that, that the entire world doesn't think in pictures. If my thoughts contain words, they are the words from a book, to a song, or a movie...but not words in my own thoughts until i translate them.

If I am overwhelmed, my speech is almost always affected, or just gone. Sometimes i have chosen to stop talking at a stressful time but not as a manipulative tactic. More of a total exhaustion--speech is just too much effort. The translator is temporarily out of service.

No, I am diagnosed as an Aspie without language/speech delay but I still have communication issues that pertain to the way I use language. The idiosyncratic use of language is very much one of my symptoms. I use scripted speech instead of spontaneous conversation. I say things in an odd tone of voice or pronounce words oddly--if I've ever heard a word pronounced differently from the way everyone else in my culture says it, I will shift to that unusual way of saying it instead of saying it the way my peers and contacts do. I have connotations for words that very strongly shade the way I interpret what people say, and have a hard time letting go of what I thought they meant when they tell me I misunderstood. I have the same trouble with my connotations when I speak--others think I meant something I didn't, based on their connotations of a word I carefully chose, or they say that the way I said it (inflection? facial expression? accompanying body language? volume?) means something very different from what I meant to say. And then they won't accept my explanation of what I really meant, over what they thought I meant. I randomly pop out phrases or lines from songs or movies or commercials that, to me, fit the occasion perfectly, but to others it seems entirely random. I do also grope for words that I know that I know, I know it would fit the conversation, but it's slipped my mind.

I know all people have these troubles sometimes. But I have them so often that I'm afraid to get into conversations with people who don't do acceptance and/or unconditional love very well. So even though I have a large vocabulary and learn new words readily, even in other languages than English, I would certainly not say I have "escaped language issues."

I sometimes stutter and often have echolalia.