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27 Dec 2010, 1:38 am

Does anyone repeat words in their head? I've noticed when I'm trying to go to sleep I tend to do it more. I just repeat a word for some reason. I do it when I'm not trying to go to bed too, but it's extra noticeable when I'm trying to go to bed. I'm just wondering if this is normal.



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27 Dec 2010, 1:57 am

I don't even know what normal is lol. Yeah I do that too. Or I remember a phase when I would spell a long word or phrase over and over and over.



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27 Dec 2010, 2:15 am

Yeah, normal is subjective but it's a little assuring that others with autism are doing it as well. Thank you.



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27 Dec 2010, 2:32 am

I do this too, I wasn't under the opinion nay was odd about it.



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27 Dec 2010, 9:02 am

ive been like that forever, i get hung up on an unusual sounding work and keep repeating and sub-vocalizing it in my head


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27 Dec 2010, 9:53 am

Yeah. I'll get words stuck like that. I didn't think that was an ASD thing. Is it?


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27 Dec 2010, 2:17 pm

IvyMike wrote:
Does anyone repeat words in their head? I've noticed when I'm trying to go to sleep I tend to do it more. I just repeat a word for some reason. I do it when I'm not trying to go to bed too, but it's extra noticeable when I'm trying to go to bed. I'm just wondering if this is normal.


+1



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27 Dec 2010, 2:59 pm

I do this all the time. Even now my response on here is already repeating in my head. It gets so annoying and exhausting sometimes!



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27 Dec 2010, 3:58 pm

I count the sylablles at hit my teeth sometimes when I count them for some reason.



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28 Dec 2010, 1:17 am

i do that when i am stressed.


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28 Dec 2010, 2:26 am

Most of the time. I read messages on the computer over and over in my head and that and conversations or tv things get repeated in my head as well. If I post a message 90% of the time I read it at least three more times afterward. In a text conversation I repeat the lines in my head of the other person and me multiple times as well. Before I say something outloud it ususally gets repeated in my head before it is said outloud.



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28 Dec 2010, 1:35 pm

I've done it at times as, in my case it tends to help me in some ways though, I suppose I must appear to be very weird as hell... :oops: :oops:



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28 Dec 2010, 2:12 pm

I repeat words and phrases in my head all the time. I repeat things I hear people say, regardless of whether they're talking to me or someone else or whether I hear them in real life or on TV/radio. I also often repeat in my head things that I've said myself, or certain phrases of my own that I haven't really said, but that I've imagined that I or someone in my day dreams said.



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28 Dec 2010, 2:23 pm

Plywood wrote:
I count the sylablles at hit my teeth sometimes when I count them for some reason.


I do this too!