When did you begin talking?

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I started right on time, about 11-12 months but at 18 months I ceased all speech. But at age 3 I started talking again, in complete sentences, even if short. This is where my current memories start, except for a few fragments. From 3 on, I have a good biographic memory.

Sincerely,
Matthew

I don't remember when I started talking, but I think I started talking in complete sentences fairly quickly in relation to the beginning of speech.

What's talking?

I was more of a walker than a talker (9 months walking), and I was about 5 when I uttered my first sentences.

I didn't start saying complete sentences until I was 7 years of age. Before that it was just one or two words at a time. It was because I got a dog that helped me come far out of autism. Art also helps me connect to the world.

Not until close to age 3, then regressed and did not relearn until age 5. I am classic though, not an aspie.

I started talking at the age of 6 years old.

I was two and a half when I started speaking. And then fluent within two weeks.
Knowing me I probably wasn't in the mood to bother until I was sure I could do it properly...

Around 3PM or so. The house was empty until then.

According to my mum I never babbled, and had a few single words by the age of 2 but I rarely used them. Apparently I used to let my brother speak for me.

When I was "quite old" (she didnt specify age) I suddenly started speaking in full sentences but only to narrate what I was doing: "I'm cutting my meat. Now I'm putting it on the fork and taking it to my mouth. Next I'll have some peas." That kind of thing. I remember doing this but I don't remember how old I was. I *think* it was before I started school but I don't really know.

Clearly I hadn't figured out the primary purpose of talking was to communicate with others! After a few months of this, I apparently shut up again and went back to being an unusually quiet child but I did speak a bit. Which pretty much where I am as an adult - I am quiet but I speak a bit.

I have some very early memories in which I talked; In the earliest of which I was two years old and understood a lot of what I was told and responded appropriately. Also when I was four years old I started telling everyone how trains worked and was able to identify dozens of trucks.

I was more a walker than a talker. I was walking at 9 months, but was talking much later. Part of the reason my folks sent me to boarding school was that by the time I was due to start kindergarten no one (even my dad on occasions) had a clue what I was saying most of the time.

According to my parents, I didn't talk until I was four, but I started speaking in full sentences. They go on to say once I started talking, I didn't shut up... which is odd because I am a relatively quiet individual...

My mother says that my first words were, "Can I have that, please?" followed a week later by "I'm not doing that."

According to my mother I started speaking around one in full sentences. I skipped baby talk entirely and asked my uncle to get me a drink of water. I started out very formal and a bit pedantic though. It took me years to speak more informally. I started walking early too and was getting into everything until my mom taught me to read. When I was able to do that and start investigating things in books it was a huge relief. My mom was always finding me on top of things or in trees looking at things. I didn't sleep much either so I gave her my share of grey hairs.

11 months.

I'm not sure how old I was when I said my first word but I know I could have proper conversations by the time I was about one year old.