Baby Talk/Made Up Talk

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Have you ever intentionally spoken baby talk or made-up language on a regular basis? I did constantly until I was 18 and leaving for college. I knew enough not to do it in public, but at home it was just repetitive and eventually kind of scripted. Most, if not all of it, was verbal stimming, where I'd fixate on certain sounds. I made up names for everyone who was closest to me and made nonsense songs about them. Most of my childhood could be characterized as "in my own little world." I still have quite a few verbal/vocal stims, including my the name I created for my wife with exaggerated consonants and often repeat ad nauseum when I'm happy. (She has mixed feelings about this, especially if she's having a rough day, but ultimately she always says it's just my way of saying that I love her. Can anyone identify with any of this?

Sorry but no, I don't like it. Even when my children were young I spoke to them as I would an adult and would frown at people who would use "baby-talk" at them. I also dislike using slang, abbreviations and acronyms unless I really have to.

Grew up in a family of pet owners in which it was cool for teens and adults to talk baby talk to cats or dogs.

But not in any other context except to actual human babies (which we didnt encounter much after both sis and I grew out of being babies ourselves).

So basically no.

I made up my own words before I started talking. My dad made up cute words like for my cat, he would call her Michelleski instead of by her name and I would call our cat Pepsi instead of by her other name. I sometimes like to call diapers diapee or pacifiers passy or bottles ba ba. I sometimes like to call Fred Meyer, Freddies or Burger King, Booger King or Dairy Queen, DQ or Wal Mart Wallyworld because that is what my dad calls the store or I call it WallyMart. My dad likes to give one of our local malls a nickname and I picked up after that.

I do tend to give a lot of names to those I love. Is this weird though? Is it autism? Maybe so because I don't know anyone else that does it.

I make up rhyming songs a lot and sing them to my kids. Or to my partner.

I haven't thought a lot about vocal stims. I don't know if I do it or not.

I do have vocal stimming and I think that singing songs over and over and over (sometimes just focusing on a single phrase) is part of it. I love giving different names to those I love, too. For instance, my cat is called "Purrita", and I call her "pupupu", "purripoopies", "puppi", etc. I also used a lot of made-up talk in my prior relationship, like saying "what Kathmandu" (instead of what can one do), introducing things from tv shows in regular talk, making songs up, etc.; my ex was NT (as far as I'm aware) and also had a lot of fun doing this. I think that it's fun, and it's not dangerous or malicious, so why should it be considered wrong? Of course if it annoys someone else, it can be toned down or done when the person is not around, but other than that I don't really see the problem.

That's interesting , I was just going to post that I don't use a baby / child like voice at all and dislike it when others do , but after reading your post, I do, but it's only to my pets ( probably because I see them as my kids ).

I really dislike it when women use a child like voice when asking for something , I know it's usually flirting but I see as manipulation and it gets my back up.

On a cat site I used to visit, we called Siamese cats "Meezers."

We had a word for dry cat food-nurpies, after the "nurp, nurp, nurp" sound cats make when eating it. "Nurpies" was also our word for packing foam and similar dried materials.

I don't remember my mom ever using baby talk with me. She always talked to me on a very adult level. I think that is why I developed a pretty good vocabulary.

I think there are two things about baby talk: the words, and the tone. I agree that the baby-talk tone is really annoying and nerve-wracking. In my first comment, I was referring to the use of words, word-play, and saying things like foodies instead of food, etc. This whole thing reminded me of this sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EALXed0Z1VI

I think that folks who talk baby talk are all just icky-poo!

I have a childish way of talking but nobody's told me it's annoying yet, but I've been told millions of times that they can't understand / hear me. Apparently, I swallow letters, stutter on hard words, speak in unintelligible words and can't control my volume well which causes me to speak without 'sounding' sometimes. Also I might give too much information in one sentence, jumping from one thing to another. It's not intentional though. When I talk 'adult', it's more intentional and needs a lot of energy spent on it.

But I like talking in baby words or in complete rubbish to people close to me when I need affection or to my cat, too, intentionally.

Apart from the fact that I own a dog rather than a cat and would rather be dead than be seen in a James Dean jacket, Hugh Laurie is absolutely me! And yes, I've done the "put to death" bit as well.