Anybody else with autism habits?

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So just for the record,my autism is pretty bad.The only thing that I don't have is physical hand flapping or rocking.Or no response to name (both childhood) everything else is STRONG within me.So I was just curious if anybody else had these habits as a childhood...I asked my mom what I was like and she told me a lot and I couldn't believe it...But anyways,my habits....We called them habits,but for some reason it was for the most ridiculous things.Like the most long one was the sh habit.where every time someone said any words with sh I would HAVE TO REPEAT IT...Everytime.......Then it went to smacking.Everytine I heard smacking I had to repeat it with my smacking even if I wasn't eating.Then it was clicking on mouse.Anytime someone clicked a mouse I had to repeat it with a mouse.There was soooo much more things those were the ones that stood out to my mom.I was really young too.but it changed...Is that a symptom of autism?

I was non-verbal until I was around 5. I used to wander around, avoiding other children. I used to keep things in my mouth (my version of stimming). I was and still am very picky about my food. I rarely look people in the eye; if I look someone in the eye, then if they say something, I don't understand them; I have to look away in order to understand them. I am hypersensitive to noise and light.

Many, many, many decades later, I was able to train for and get a job in computer programming and live independently. I don't do the hand-flapping thing very often. Instead, I grind my teeth, and flip my leg and foot around.

As someone once said: if you've met an autistic person, then you've met one autistic person.

What you speak of is called echolalia. I do it a bit, when someone says something funny then I generally repeat it before I laugh. I also use delayed echolalia to an extent to mask my slower then average language processing by repeating stuff I have heard in the past instead of coming up with stuff to say myself. It is indeed a quite common autistic trait.

I do the repeating thing as well.

It's if I've heard someone with a distinctive accent. I have a compulsion to just echo what ever they have said and in their accent as well.

I thought it was just a normal thing to do. I do it all day at work because I talk to 100's of different people on the phones all day long.

Nobody's ever pulled me up about it or told me it's an unusual thing to do.

I had to climb, run away then hide (in stores), hand flap when excited, compulsively chew my shirt sleeves, hang out under couch cushions even though I got hot...meltdown (not tantrum) when I couldn't have something; like in pre-k we had to practice saying basic addition/subtraction using big laminated cards, but I always wanted to do the next activity first.

That's what I remember.

Copying, mimicking and repeating others is pretty common for kids with autism.

I never mimicked or copied others like that to my knowledge. I think it's pretty common, though.

I repeat things people say, or things I hear over an intercom in a store, but not out loud, kind of just mouth the words. I wasn't even aware of doing this until someone pointed it out to me and now I am aware when I do this.
But it doesn't seem like any thing unusual to me, just kind of a habit like talking to myself which I also do but not out loud just kind of whispering.
I also repeat things animals say. every time my cat meows I repeat the meow. But I think of this as inter-species communication.

I repeat things that other people say occasionally; my dad thinks it's funny.

I repeat stuff from movies, tv shows and books endlessly, I often have to remind myself others I am trying to create a reaction out of have not seen or read these things lately or perhaps never and are also not initiated into my brain where I assume everyone finds these things amusing or exciting to parrot back and forth.

I walk on my tiptoes maybe 40% of the day, 20% I'm not aware I'm doing it no matter how many times I realize it over my life it just seems a natural state for me to spring about the planet's surfaces, I bang into things for no reason except it is stimulating, I also spin around a lot and flap my hands when I am excited or frustrated or need some kinda reaction to happen that I can't make a connection with.

Repeating stuff from movies and TV is an autistic habit? Well, I'll be damned.

I walked on my tip toes beginning as a child, because of tactile hypersensitivity.