When did you start talking?

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I hadn't uttered a single sound or word until I was 13 months old. My mother told me that I hadn't tried it imitate speech at all.
Then at 13 months, I just said my first word out of the blue. My mother claims she can't remember the exacts of my speech development from that point on (how can she forget?), but she mentioned that I was quickly learning many new words in the following months.

Also, I remember talking in short meaningful sentences when I was at least two. I struggled with it, but I was understood easily by my parents.

According to my mother, I started babbling mamamamama at her when I was six months old. I was talking before I was walking, which is kind of creepy if you think about it. Like this kid I saw at work who didn't look old enough to sit up on its own, but it pointed to a candy bar and said "Want that!" I almost called for an exorcism. Anyway, I started talking very early. After 'mama' and 'dada', my first word was 'kitty'.

My first babble was da da at the age of 3, I didnt start speaking correct sentences until I was about 8, so I was very delayed in speech, basically non-verbal.

I started talking around 10 months, but I probably didn't start communicating (with words) for another couple of months afterwards. My mom says I mostly talked about our dog or the neighbor's dog.

When you say tongue thrust, are you referring to infantile tongue thrust?

I said my first word at about six months. I vividly remember it and am sure I meant to say it and knew what it meant, but the witnesses are not completely convinced.

I started doing two or three word sentences around age 1, but very rarely. Then I hardly spoke except to say something totally professor-like (e.g. at age three I spoke 12 word sentences, had proper pronunciation, great vocabulary, etc., but I only said one a day), or something simple like "that," "no," "food," etc.

I remember it was just called tongue thrust--my tongue supposedly had a problem with it (muscular?), this problem made me pronounce words funny. I also had broken/poor/grammatically incorrect speech when I first started speaking complete sentences; I kinda went from asking, answering and making requests with a few words to becoming completely "normal" due to an emotional upset.

Speech therapy helped my poor speech too, and it also allowed me to learn to interact with an adult in a mechanical setting (she was a nice and friendly lady).

apparently i started talking at 3 1/2 years old, before then i would only point and grunt. when i first started talking i talked fluently.

ive been told (by so called experts *bah!*) that this is very common for people with aspies

I was three before i developed speech apparently according to my parents.

I think i was 1. My parents say my first word was "M'Fr" which probably explains why I am the way I am.


I was fairly talkative when I entered Kinder, able to read and such. I was pretty advanced in speech development, compared to the other brats. Ironically, I'm not able to carry a conversation or know when to speak/how to speak at times.

According to my parents, I had never spoken a word until one day at about age 2, I walked into the living room and uttered a complete sentence.

I got dxed with infantile tongue thrust, but that was via an orthodontist. Infantile tongue thrust is when you don't swallow with the back of your tongue, but rather push against the backside of your front teeth. They tried to make me fix it, and I tried, but it never went away. Luckily I started playing french horn around the same time and that evened out most of the issue.

Technically, according to the DSM and ICD, there shouldn't be a language delay with Aspergers. If there is, it should be diagnosed as Autistic Disorder.

However, in the US, auties with language delay will more likely get an AS diagnosis if the diagnosis is given later in life and it is impossible to verify the speech delay if it's just the client giving the information as opposed to a parent or older sibling confirming it. Unless the person had speech therapy, which is a little more reliable.

In the UK and in mainland Europe though, diagnosticians are a little more prone to diagnose AS even with a confirmed speech delay, especially with the greater influence of Gillberg and Szatmari who both include speech delay in their AS criteria. So in Europe there is a greater divide and some do not follow the ICD stipulation of no language delay as strictly.

I spoke at ten months, first word was "turtle" (or at least sounded like it). And I haven't shut up since.

Which time?

How many times did you stop?