Mental and Verbal Echolalia and Palilalia?

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I have palilalia. According to my mom it used to be really bad when I was younger. I didn't even realize I was doing it until my brother pointed it out one day. Sometimes I catch myself doing it when I pray, and sometimes it happens when I talk to someone while I'm excited or upset.

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when i was younger and people use to ask me questions i wouldn't understand what they said. so i would respond with "what?" then i would repeat what they said quietly. only then would i understand, and respond, usually just as they begin repeating the question.

it would annoy the hell out of them, and they usually thought i was trying to make them mad.

idk if this is echolalia, but it would make sense.

engelbert humperdink makes me think of a dark grey, with a slight pukey green tinge.

I have a related question: can somebody have just palilalia or echolalia and nothing else, or are these conditions always secondary to another one (like Tourette's or AS)?

Yet another thing I do that I'm finding out most other people don't. I do both all the time, but until now I had no idea that was abnormal or that it even had a name. Funny thing is my mostly NT but slightly Aspie dad does it verbally far more than I do. If he thinks something is funny or clever, he'll repeat it 3 or 4 times. And he also whispers while rehearsing conversations. Most of the time I can hear what the entire "conversation" is about and will throw in a relating comment or question to his embarassment.

I just noticed that I repeat what I just typed on IM. I have no reason to but I find it amusing and repeat it.

I have a friend that repeats questions that he is asked, without fail. No other signs of AS or anything. It used to drive his ex nuts, but it didnt bother me. For a joke, I would repeat it a third time.

His Ex: Do you want to go uptown?

Friend: Do I want to go uptown?

Me: does he want to go uptown?

HAHA.

palilalia, couldn't they name it something different? That's just a problem right there... palilalia

I actually go to bed repeating a word or phrase in my head and when I wake up in the morning, before I'm even fully awake, I realize that I am still repeating the same thing and it feels like I have been repeating it all night in my sleep. I feel exhausted from it.

QUESTION: Do you ever do something and then a few minutes later wonder if you are just remembering what you just did or if you have actually done that before? (not deja vu)

(Tourette's)
I used to repeat things in my head over and over and over and just think it was normal so it never bothered me. Was just slightly annoying but never thought too much about it. Now that I have been researching tourettes again and found that this was a part of tourettes I pay attention to it and it seems to happen more. Not really, I just pay attention now.

I replay and repeat phrases in my head quite often. This happens with songs and conversations, too.

I think I'm just prone to repetition.

Rewind. Play. Rewind. Play.

Dang ... another Aspie trait. Always when I'm alone or at least think I'm alone. Wife busted me once: "Who are you talking to?" Me: "I wasn't saying anything." I don't think she bought it.