does anyone else remember learning how to speak?

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i remember being very young and watching tv, not being able to understand what they were saying, only the WAY they said the word, so i would copy that word in a sentence i think would fit best, i also would copy my dads words, the rhythm, the tone and the sound, i would always get it a little wrong because i would never correctly pronounce it. throughout my years i have also become very good at listening in context, im better at understanding some words than others, so i can piece together what a person is trying to say, for example " i went to the ******* and saw a lot of dinosaurs" (i obviously know museum but you get the picture) and i can clue in that the only way you can see dinosaurs is at the museum. anyone else do this?

It was mainly through the persistent efforts of speech therapy as well as my exposure to the public as well as television and reading was I able to master speech. In fact I couldn't talk until I was four years old. Even today, I still have trouble articulating my thoughts face to face but of course as an adult, it is no longer a problem. Sometimes my speech can get fragmented.

No. I was talking before I was a year old (according to my mother) & don't remember that far back.

An ASD friend of mine told me he didn't start talking until he was several years old. I'm not quite sure how old, but this thread makes me wonder. Maybe sometime when it's appropriate I'll bring it up and ask him, as well as ask him if he remembers learning to talk. The way he described it before was that he had chosen not to talk, would let his older sister speak for him, and would just point to things and use gestures etc.. and then that at a certain age, he decided to start talking. At least that's how I remember him telling his story, anyways. He didn't say that at x years old he began to learn to talk, but rather said he decided to start talking. I'll ask him to clarify sometime, but it does make me wonder if others with speech delay as children don't consider it an inability to speak & then learning to speak later, but rather a decision not to until they're ready, then they just decide to go ahead and start talking. Hmmmmm, interesting indeed. well, even more interesting since it has me wondering about my friend TBH. Otherwise I probably wouldn't think or wonder much about it at all.

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Yes, I remember, I learned from reading out loud from books in 3rd grade.

As a young kid I was deeply captivated by television. My parents did not speak English but there was English TV. I remember learning the language before leavinvg the cot. I actually watched the Tv once out and I remember on the first day of nursery while other kids were doing their goo goo gagas I was fluent in conversational English in addition to my parents language. These days I struggle to learn anything at all.

No, I don't. Apparently I developed very slowly - I started to speak (a little bit) more when I started school at age 5. My quietness was always attributed to 'shyness'. All my early school reports mentioned shyness, for instance, my year 2 report (age 7) says that 'Sarah seems to be coming out of her shell'. And things like 'she uses pictures to help read a text' and 'Sarah has difficultly listening accurately to instructions'. I remember that after I taught myself to read more complex things (I spent quite a lot of time on Encarta, read encyclopedias, and other longer books) my speech improved quite dramatically over a short period of time.

Not at all.

I remember as a 4 year old, I wasn't talking so my parents took me to a shrink, who tried to engage me in conversation and after a while I was still mum so he outsmarted me [used reverse psychology] and shouted at me the command, "TALK!" and I shouted right back at him, "NO!"

I learned to speak when I was about 18 months old, and I don't remember anything before I was at least 2 years old, so no.

I had a horrible stammer until I was at 7 years old, though. It didn't really go away completely until I was about 10. People would try to annoy me or upset to bring it out and then do impressions of it when it came out. I even had teachers make fun of it. Didn't get speech therapy because by the time I was 7, I only stammered when I was upset/nervous/excited. I'm glad it went away when I was still a child. When I see adults with stammers, my heart goes out to them. I remember being able to relate to the character of Claudius the first time I watched I, Claudius.

I don't really remember learning to speak. I do remember learning English because my first language is Spanish.

I don't remember learning to say single words because I did that at a typical age, but I remember starting to have ideas in my head and starting to want to get them across to another person, and starting to see this chasm between what I wanted and getting it across. It was, and sometimes is, almost a physically painful struggle to pull my brain into making words in an order that may work to communicate a thought.

Also, I don't remember that I had trouble understanding words people said, but I do remember not understanding the meaning of the whole conversation. Like if someone were to have talked about getting a dress to wear for a party, I maybe would not have understood there would be a party, or I would go, or that two people who were single soon would be married. Even though I understood the meaning of the individual words. And I also copied the way sometimes people, more often TV characters, said things as I got older and started to watch TV.

Did anyone else find the process of going from a thought to words for speaking and then uttering them to be painful in the way I'm describing? It doesn't happen anymore when I am calm, or if it does it's so minimal I don't notice it. I start having trouble going from the thought to the words to the speaking and doing it in a way anyone can understand when I get upset, though. And I go backwards and it almost hurts me in a way that is difficult to describe, trying to talk or communicate when I'm upset, just like when I was a child.

I have to remind myself that I'm supposed to speak, every day.

I don't remember anything before about 4 and a half years old and I know I had disordered and delayed speech up through Kindergarten. I remember getting speech therapy, but otherwise do not remember learning how to speak.

In fact, I was not even aware that I had disordered and delayed speech as a child until my mid- to late 20s, when I looked through my old childhood records.

I remember learning how to speak. I remember being excited to tell my mum different things. I went to speech therapy at the age of 5. I had problems with my th's and I still do, though It doesn't bother me. My joy of speaking would be bogged down every time my mum got in my face and told me the correct way of pronouncing whatever word had a th sound in it. I finally told my mum to "Leave me the hell alone!" about it when I was 9. She looked at me with her mouth gaped open and asked me, "What did you say?" She never bugged me about the th sound again.

I don't remember when I learned to speak or read... But I'm often reminded by my mother how I couldn't read and mis read words especially words that are mixed with profanities. Like the word clock, I would point to one and say the the word without the L in the word out loud.

I perhaps was a funny child.