Echolalia

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Don't know if these are echolalia too, but when I am at work and typing and someone talks I often find myself typing in some of the words I hear. That's why I take a little break until it is silent again. Also I sometimes a word pops up in my mind and goes in a loop. I don't know where they come from, maybe I heard it a long time ago. If it is a word I don't know it stops, when I look it up. Well.. Most of the time.

Oh and sometimes it's music not only words. I never whiste, hum or sing out loud though.

I do that if i hear a particular part in a song or a movie, i repeat that part over and over to myself. I'm not sure if thats the same thing though.

YES!! I get this with my girlfriend on the phone all the time, it drives her up the wall!

I'm very prone to repeat things I or someone else says in my head. Most often when I'm explaining something to someone, I'll repeat the key portions of the explanation in my head. It can be very irritating.

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Eccoholia nearly drove me nuts in HS, because I would finish a class, and repeat the last word (or words) of the teacher in my head over, and over, and over, and. . . .well, you get the picture. Nowdays, I just repeat various bars of music over and over to mask out the words, and that seems to help a bit, but everynow and then, I will find myself repeating a word internally.

Most recently, I've been stuck on the two words Supersonik Eletronik, which I found by accident in a wiki article on internet memes.

I guess I have a mild form of internal echolalia. I tend to repeat stuff I hear in my head, I guess for the sake of review or comprehension. It was much more noticeable when I was younger, because my lips moved in the process and I was whispering it to myself in a barely audible manner.

Mild internal echolalia with words (although I know exactly the listening mode thing) but quite serious internal (and sometimes external) with music. As for the person (sorry, forgotten who ) who said about adding in words when typing, I get that with typing and writing, and quite often when speaking too! And also repeating what I intend to write, and from previous posts ... I'll repeat (externally) what people have said to me if I'm the slightest bit unsure what they've said, but that's in order to confirm that I heard them correctly. But internally I often repeat what they've said to try to register it!

Yes, I frequently have movie quotes in my speech (delayed echolalia). Sometimes I repeat softly after others. Or after myself even. And too many times while in the car do I have the unrestrainable impulse to read signs aloud with no other relevance attached to their reading. But usually when I'm not driving, lol. Just a passenger. Thankfully.

I don't know if this counts, but I will internalize and repeat ad nauseum entire conversations, emails, IMs, verbatim, in my mind, and as magic stated there is no power in heaven or earth that can remove the repetition from my mind. However, I never do this out loud, if for no other reason than that I don't like to talk (out loud). But in my brain is non stop chatter.

I do that too. People call me Lori B or bee, and when I get excited (especially if I'm tired) I start saying bee bee bee bee bee over and over again. I usually rock my head forwards and backwards at the same time. It's kind of fun, but it totally freaks me out if it happens in public. I also repeat the last word or few words of something that someone says to me. Sometimes only about 3 or 4 times, but sometimes more. Sometimes I even repeat the whole last sentence. Once in a while I get a word in my head and repeat it over and over until I forget about it or get sidetracked. Occasionally I can keep it inside my head, but the more tired I am, the harder it is.

I only get that from advertisements

I think echolalia can be internally done as well. But as for getting something running through one's head which is sort of automatic or even against one's own wishes (like a song stuck in the head), I'm not so sure that's echolalia.

Now, if one were purposely doing these things in the head, like repeating over and over similarly as if one would speak it, then that's echolalia. But as for just getting a song stuck, or even a conversation, I don't really think so. And I'm not exactly sure what that is. But I wouldn't doubt if that happens more often to autistics than to NAs, too.

Can anyone say for sure what the definition of echolalia is? Is it something done purposely but is uncontrollable (sort of an uncontrollable urge) or what?