When did you start talking?

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I was "Mr. No" when I was a toddler.

My mother doesn't remember. How nice is that? Her response: "Um, I dunno. I suppose it was on time. It's been a while, I don't really remember all that stuff."

Yeha. I recall exactly when my kids talked, and what they said. I don't think you could beat that memory out of me. But whatever.

I spoke single words at a normal time (12 months or so); a couple of words in the next year. I kinda stopped developing at this point until I was 4/5, then I spoke my first sentence.

This is from Gillberg's AS criteria; it's much closer to Asperger's original work than the DSM-IV-TR entry on AS.

i am not sure. I am afraid to ask. I think i was told that I started in with sentences and multi-syllable words right away though.

First words are usually said before 1 year. By 24 months most kids are speaking in phrases/small sentences.

I'm told that I said my first word at 6 months old, then I didn't speak again until I was 4. I was in speech therapy for a long time.

I said TALKING, and she said TALKING! NOT just words, but full sentences!

Even communicating with one word is "talking." I don't get your point here.

I ain't started talking yet, and I ain't about to! Even if those coppers turn up the heat, I ain't gonna rat out my buddies!

Unlike I guess some aspies/HFA, I started talking really early-- like in sentences when I was a year old. I used a lot of big words that surprised my parents because they didn't think little kids would know words like that. But I also made a lot of words up, if I didn't know a word for something, I'd just call it something else. I was afraid of my neighbors' coal scuttle when I was 2 or so and I called it "the boose" because I didn't know what it really was.

I said my first word which was "eyes" when I was 9 months old. I started talking in three word sentences at just over a year old and by the age of two and a half I was using "complex" sentences such as suited for a 5-6 year old.

I apparently said absolutely nothing until I was two. My parents were worried, and inquired with my pediatrician about it. (He told them not to worry; I was just "saving it up".) Then, out the blue, one Saturday morning, I spoke the numbers 1-10 and the alphabet in perfect order. Repeatedly. They told me I immediately began speaking in full sentences after that. I was reading by the time I turned three. They couldn't figure out how I learned it all. For years, they told me that my brother had taught me. Later, they conceded it was just a guess. (In hindsight, I may have been hyperlexic.)

Prolly around three.

NOPE, She said full sentences. Frankly, I wouldn't say that just saying "WATER" is talking.(Oh well, I ALSO take umbrage at people that say they can read a language SIMPLY because they can sound out the letters.) You would think you would at least say "Can I have some water".(I seem to recall that I was FAR less likely to say please/thankyou back then. TODAY, I say it WAY too much.) HECK, I thought saying single words was supposed to be at like 6 months. One site says it is 12 though. My mother said she didn't even remember me babbling or saying just single words. That IS consistent with how I used to be(Before like 9yo). I used to figure out a whole task, and THEN do it. She said I just started talking in sentences. They weren't complex, but they were correct and understandable.

What the heck. Back then tape recorders were bulky, and used tape that would probably not even be usable anymore. I don't know if they ever had any such recorder. I'm lucky I even have PICTURES! My mothers only real early memory of sentences I said was when I was in a hospital before I was 18months old. I was apparently pretty talkative and said (and I am trying to quote), "My daddy will be back, I know it.". I was shocked to hear that, because I didn't think I EVER said daddy or mommy. In fact, I generally haven't used mother or father to refer to them in a family setting since about 5yo.

She remembered my talking earlier after seeing a picture of another time she knew I was talking. And I was talking with some older relatives.

But I don't care how you take it, etc... I was just clarifying what I said.

I had a year of it, it was helpful. (It wasn't for ASD, but it [unknowingly] helped. When I spoke my first sentence at 4/5, my mother realized I had tongue thrust; it cured my tongue thrust, and it actually helped me develop my spoken language to that of a "normal" individual at an earlier age than I probably would have.)

My first words:
Moon
Mama
Dada
Dog
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto

Around eight months.