No baby talk at infancy

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I started speaking in full sentences when I was four months old.

I believe that! I think I was the same way as well!

I wonder if this is a very common trait for people with AS.

It is very common!

I didn't speak until very late, but then was running several years ahead of my peers when I started. I was also reading at an extremely early age - the encyclopediae were my favorites. And I remembered it. My parents told me they were afraid "something was wrong with me" when I didn't talk. Then they regretted when I did start, because I wouldn't shut up.

My daughter did little babble as an infant, but did go through the one and two-word phrases thing at the appropriate time. The she just started busting out with complex sentences that had her daycare workers calling me on the phone every day to tell me what she'd said. She was reading at the late 4/5th grade level when she was five years old.

AS traits?

I've always been told my first word was "pocketbook." I skipped all those monosyllabic words and went straight for the hard ones.

my 6 yr old didn't talk as infant, at 18 months he was enrolled in First Steps (an early childhood intervention system here) and said his first two word phrase (bye bye pig) at 2 yrs. and then took off like a rocket! Hasn't stopped talking since and reads encyclopedias and dictionaries, he was reading at 3 1/2 years of age! I guess he's making up for lost time!

That SO sounds like me.

Be prepared for a lot of time at the library!

Me too. I spoke early and went straight from zero to full fluency. Family legend has me in a hotel dining room lecturing a professor of palaeontology on the subject of dinosaurs... at three years old. I look at small children now and think I was never like that... It's kind of a lonely thought really.

I started late, as well. Never cared to say anything and when I did, it wasn't the right word.

I learned to speak in complete words before I turned one. Well, I had trouble pronouncing some letters, I still spoke in complete words. All throughout my childhood, my vocabulary and speaking style was years ahead of my peers. Needless to say, that didn't make me popular.

I could pronounce carbiolet and tyrannosauros rex one years old but I couldnt pronounce wash (the swedish version of it).

My mom said that I spoke complete sentences and I actually knew what I was talking bout at 4 months old.

Well, I am often not all that talkative now. My mother will commit to only 2 things. 8-(

1. I NEVER babbled or spoke baby talk.
2. I was talking full 100% intelligible sentences between 14 and 18 months. Luckily, I had a hernia, so the high point can be narrowed down to the day. I wonder if they have a record of my asking for something. That would be NEAT.

Who knows when I COULD have talked. Back then, I was often quiet. I didn't speak much, etc...

Steve

I would ask what things were a lot, like "What's that?" and they would tell me what it was and I would remember.

Yeah, when I spoke earlier, that was what most of my statements were. When I learned to read, I got a good sized dictionary, and READ. I could go through 10-15 levels for ONE word, and I remembered all THAT also! OH, those WERE the days!

Steve

It is interesting because speaking fluently that young is atypical in Child Psychology.