When did you start talking?

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Twice if we're talking long-term (although the second stop would be more like a gradual skid than a sudden stop). Which would translate to starting twice as well.

I said my first word when I was 3-4 right after my younger brother started talking. If he wasn't born, I probably would have waited longer. I noticed some people started talking before their 1st birthday. How abnormal is it to wait until 3-4 years old to say your first word?

I would say that 11 months and under would be considered "early", 12-15 months would be more "average", 16-23 months as "late average", and 24+ as "late".

So the majority of the people in the population will fall within the average range.

I agree with you, its so strange not to be talking until wayyy late, i remember my first babble was da da, and it was directed towards my dog lol, my father was so furious haha. Between the age of 3-4 my words consisted of da da, la la, and ra ra lol, but mostly everything was a da da lol.

Around 8 months.

That's awesome, I bet your parents jumped out of their skins!

My sister (who's a year older) and I both learned to talk using multiple words and proper syntax by the time we were a year old. Our mom had us memorize songs and nursery rymes, and even the order of the bible books from Genesis to Revelation by that time too. From the tapes, I talked slowly, carefully, and monotonously even when I sang. For example, instead of saying "hypopomus" like most infants I would say slowly "hyp-oh-pot-oh-mus" or "met-ah-morph-ah-sis". My sister who is most likely just a really smart NT with some AS traits was much more animated as a child and talked quickly, loudly, and carelessly. I talked in a quiet but clear monotone.

Are there any NTs that don't start talking until after they are 3 years old? Or does that only occur in autism?

My mom says I was around two and still wasn't talking, there was the possiblity that i could say ma or da. For the most part i would just stare at her when she would try to get me to talk. My mom took me to the doctor and the doctor said not to worry. As more time passed i still wasn't talking so my mom took me to the doctor again to see if i was tongue tied and the doctor said no. My mom says that i seemed to understand everything i just wouldn't communicate with her or anybody else.

Supposedly I started to talk when I was two. I started reading fluently at two and a half, which I find interesting not just because it was early but because it seems to coincide with the talking. I believe I have some sort of auditory processing issue, and that spoken words didn't make sense to me until I could actually map them to letters (and thus know for sure what sounds were being spoken).

I don't really know, I'd have to ask my mom. But I'm certain I was talking by 2, I was definitely talking at 3 as some of my memories are from 3. I don't remember 1, I may have memories from 2, but I'm not to clear on that.

I don't know exactly. I was one of those "little professor" types: reading early, writing early. They wanted to put me in an accelerated school when I was in elementary, but my mother thought and thought about it and decided she didn't want me to "be different"

I was different already. And after not having the appropriate learning environment to bloom, I slunk down to mediocre and missed a lot of junior high/high school. it's a wonder I didn't fail outright.

oh well.

I was about one year old when I spoke my first word. I would not speak more than one word every few hours until I was a little more than three years old. If someone said "what did you say?" or "say it again", I would not speak again for hours. After I turned three, I started talking in adult sentences. My first sentence was the question "Why can't I fly like Superman?" My mother was shocked. Instead of answering my question, she asked if I could speak so well, why I never said any sentences before. I told her "Until now everything was fine, I got food, drinks and changed when I wanted. But now I have a problem that I can't figure out. For the past few days I have not been able to figure out out how to fly. I am still stuck in my playpen. Why do I keep coming back down, when I jump up just like superman does?" My mother was even more shocked at the longer statements. She got out a dictionary and tried to explain gravity to me.
I talked my older sister into teaching me to read by four years old. I was reading newspaper articles before I was 5, using my own dictionary to figure out the meanings of words I did not know. I had a standardized test for reading comprehension when I was in 2nd grade. They said I was reading at a ninth grade level, because that was the highest test they had. I always spoke properly and used bigger words than I should have. (Must have been the newspapers fault.)
I was bored and got horrible grades until halfway through middle school. Then I discovered algebra and foreign language. Plus, my teachers did not mind if I slept in class as long as I turned in all my assignments and got above 95 on my quizzes and tests. I was an honor student once I started learning new things.

At 8 months I was speaking in scentences.
No one at the department for development thingo Mum took me to would beleive her until she brought me in at one year of age and I had the linguistics of s 4-year-old

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My Tourettes brother is two years older than me but I talked before him, in complete sentences,at 18 months. I did not walk before 18 months but I got practice telling my brother what I wanted and he got it for me as I was not as mobile due to dyspraxia.

I started speaking before my first birthday- not sure how long before, though, and my mom's already in bed so I can't ask her.
My first word was 'doll'. Looking back, I really wish it had been something more interesting, like 'doom ray'.