Echolalia

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Not now, but my relatives told me I used to repeat television commercials at weird times, stuff like saying "Uh oh, better get Macco!" when something bad happened.

I'd like to find some good documentation on echolalia. I've said before that I've really not paid a lot of attention to myself, but over the last year I've increased that. So, I'm having a difficult time with seeing if even a little bit of echolalia would apply. Although I imagine I would know by now something was off!

Earlier today, I can note that after I heard a dog inside this apartment bark, that I had an urge to do such as well. I also remember as a child I used to really get my dad mad at me. He would say something about an object of some sort, and I would reply "I'll be a(n) -insert object here-". For instance, if he was looking for the can opener, and he mentioned it, I would say, "I'll be a can opener!". I still do this, and only when people are looking for/need something, but not nearly as much as I did when I was a kid. I do know that I get impulses to blurt things out occasionally, but I tend to catch myself (not always unfortunately). I don't remember if these things are things I've heard before or not. As far as I know, these things could simply just be impulsive behavior.

Another thing I'm curious about is the constant music in my head. I always have music playing in my head. The odd thing about it though is it is usually only like 3-5 seconds worth of a specific song, that repeats itself over and over. I can't turn it off. It is usually never a distraction, but it has been before.

Well yesterday I made a careful note of the amount of times I did echolalia, now that I was aware it could happen. And it only happened once. Before that I guess it would have been a lot of times each day.

I do it a lot but I guess no one notices.

i do have it actually. i sometimes tend to pick a certain word from a conservation and repeat it. It is not like i plan to do it, it just happens, and usually i only realize i am doing it when everyone else noticed it

I do both echolalia and palialia.

I've done it, too. There have been times where I would say something, and then sort of play back what I just said to myself. I still remember being called on it once by my sister when I was little. Before that, I didn't notice that that's what I was doing, but in hindsight I can say that I did.

echolalia - is when you repeat back what someone else has said ( phrase, word or entire conversation, real life or from a movie etc )

Palalia is when you repeat something that you have said yourself

Perseveration is when you get stuck on a topic or phrase and keep saying it, and you find that it is something that you return to all the time .. my son perseverates with " man will you mow the lawn ? Every time he meets a man that he does not know.

not a lot. mainly quoting internet memes if I do it. Sometimes other quotes but not a lot. I mutter a bunch of stuff to myself.

My friend always catches my echolalia because she watches the same TV shows as me. I just can't think of metaphors unless I quote them.

I had it as a child but not now. Most people are shocked to realize that I am autistic because I don't do all the things I used to do as a child. Back then I had echolalia, no language except the repeating or just short sentences, no eye contact, and I would scream at everything if something was different. I wouldn't be able to hold a normal conversation with people but now I am the total opposite! Not many autistic symptoms at all except the obsessions and restricted interests. I also have severe anxiety. I am a true success story.

As a child I was echolalic. I didn't speak any words of my own until I was four.

I don't really repeat anything anyone else says much anymore, but I realized when Saffy posted the definition of palalia that I do that. Today was I said "I'm tired" and "I'm hungry" at least fifteen times. I stopped myself a couple of times, but the others they just kind of came out.

i never really thought about it, but i'm constantly saying "hi" to my parents, like, several times in a row... i also sometimes "meow" repetitivly. does that even count?

also, most likely unrelated, but very common, this repeated convo... mainly cause i just have to respond this way...

me: hi!
my dad: how...
me: how now brown cow...

my dad thinks it's funny...

Does anyone else have echolalia as far a sounds are concerned? I usually copy the sounds that I am sensitive to like hard consonant sound like s or t or ch sounds. It's like a reflex and I can't always stop it.