Words stuck in your head- perservation/echolalia?

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Do NTs have this repetition, perseveration, and parrotting as frequently as many folks with AS do? I've talked to a few NTs about it and they say that yes, songs and words gets stuck in their heads, but not in the way that it does with me. They also don't imitate people quite the way I do.

I came upon this thread whilst googling to figure out why I've had a very awful word stuck in my head all day today. I first read and comprehended the word today and it has been continuously popping into my head, which has been extremely frustrating as I simply don't want it in my head. When I do think of it, it's not related to the topic either of a conversation I'm having with someone else or relevant to my train of thought. (Sorry for the poor grammatical structure, I just finished writing too many English assignments and I've sort of given up on coherence for the night.) I found that I have experienced almost all of the occurrences detailed in all of these posts though I have not been diagnosed with or suspected of having any form of Autism, though I do have a form of epilepsy. Upon continued "research" of the phenomena in my quest to end my suffering of the recurring prominence of the word in my mind, I stumbled upon a similar website for epileptics, with a very similar question and many responses that said almost the same thing. I suppose this is less of an explanation for why you may be experiencing this, and honestly may even make the cause less clear, but I thought it was interesting and worth mentioning.

I had that sometimes cuz of OCD

I get names stuck in my head, the more exotic the better. Currently the name most on my mind is Denis Istomin.