When did you begin talking?

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I said my first word at eight months of age. By the time I started walking (around a year old) I had a several word (speaking) vocabulary. My boyfriend has been diagnosed with AS and I think he was rather to similar to me. I'm just curious because it seems like some aspies begin talking later than average while others begin talking much earlier. I wonder why this would be.

I said my first word (which was the word "look" by the way) when I was 6 months old. Didn't start walking until I was 1,5 year old though.

I think said my first word roughly around 14 months. I'm not sure if it was ''Mummy'' or ''teddy''.

I'm one of those freakily early talkers, as is my daughter. She started to speak in complete sentences, that were perfectly understood, at a year old. We were able to have proper conversations, she wasn't just repeating words, parrot fashion. When I was a baby, my mum used to take me to a local supermarket and the ladies who worked there would sit me on the counter and encourage me to speak, to freak out the customers. Both of us have caused multiple double-takes.

I don't remember when I started talking (no surprises there) and neither do my parents exactly (somewhat more surprising). They tell me it was later than usual (late enough for a few appointments with a speech pathologist, but only a few and nothing leading to any help or a diagnosis), and that even after my first words I preferred not to speak, instead using a rudimentary sign language of my own invention, but they can't remember how old I was.

Yeah, I started to speak very early as well. I didn't do it a whole lot, but I was certainly capable (and usually a smartass when I did).

i didnt walk until i was nearly 2yrs.
i dont speak much.

I said my first word at 8 months old and my first word was puss because we had a cat in the house. By the time I was one year old I could communicate just fine. I was very early with the verbal skills but not so much for physical skills.

According to my mother, I said my first word at six months, and I was speaking in sentences well before 18 months. My mother thinks I started speaking in small sentences by a year. None of this was seen as "warning signs" back in my day, though, so my mother never really kept rigorous track of my developmental milestones.

It's only because of this very subject that I would be considered to have High Functioning Autism and not AS.
I didn't really start speaking tell the age of 3. But my Foster Parents said within one year I caught up.

I started speaking fluent English by age 3, but did not use verbal language much/at all before that. Made my folks flip a 180 from sad and disappointed to proud and braggy. I remember they took me to see some weird guy I didn't like being around who kept trying to get me to talk, and my best guess is that I finally revealled I could communicate fluently to get that to stop.

Around 2, I remember my mom said I was a late talker.

I did not speak until I was nearly 2. I discovered this when my daughter passed her 2nd birthday and was still not talking. I called my Mom to find out when I talked and found that it was nearly 2. My Mom knew very few kids and I was her first. She assumed that not talking until you were 2 was normal (and pediatricians didn't get concerned back then). She thought my brother was a super genius for talking closer to 1. Ultimately my daughter learned how to talk around 3 and was diagnosed with autism. I never was diagnosed but I think my own late talking is genetically related to her even later talking and autism.

I was very vocal and articulate at a young age according to my parents, they thought I was some sort of child prodigy. Then the pressure started.

I started saying my first words when I was around one year old, but I didn't actually start to communicate until I was two.