Echolalia is annoying me!! !

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I can't seem to make it stop. It's driving me nuts and soooo much worse when I'm stressing out or doing something unplanned.

Does it happen or bother you .. struggle with making it stop.. what helps? Apart from going on an adventure to somewhere in a field with nobody around.

I repeat sounds animals make and some things I've heard people say, usually from media I like. It gets worse and more involuntary the more stressed out I am and I hate it. I don't really know how to deal with it besides trying to fix whatever is stressing me out.

I don't mean for this message to be insensitive, or to hurt anyone. I just wanted to say I learned something new. While I knew autistics have ecolalia, I didn't know that high functioning adults do. But maybe so, since there was already a response to this thread that was able to relate.

What makes it especially interesting is that I always assumed my Asperger is worse than other people's. I mean, look at my posts that are several pages long, nobody else writes that much. And also I don't have any friends or aquitances, but most people do, even here. Yet at the same time, I see that other people are ecolalic and I am not. So in this particular sense other people have it worse. So I guess all and all, its not more or less severe, just different symptoms. I have social symptoms/obsessions part, and others have ecolalia and sensory part.

By the way, Brina Siegel told me I am mild (I mean, really mild: like milder than 99.5% of cases). Unfortunately, back when she was evaluating me, I wasn't aware of all of my problems I am aware of now, thats why I didn't ask why am I mild. But ever since I became aware of those problems few years later, I couldn't ask anyone that question who would know the answer. Could lack of ecolalia be part of the answer?

In any case, maybe we should make a different post. Instead of directing it to people who have ecolalia, maybe we can direct it to everyone and ask who has it and who doesn't. That way we could get a full picture of how common it is in this forum.

To be clear

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echolalia

As someone with rather mild Tourette syndrome I can appreciate what y'all'r sayin': while I don't have Echolalia, I do know me about some tics!

If you have both a motor and a phonic-tic, such as Echolalia, you probably have Tourette: sorry, I'm not trying to talk down to anyone, just hoping to clarify things for anyone in doubt

DIVAIR

I do not have echolalia or tourettes
but i guess i can relate, as having an anxiety disorder (as most people with ASD do)
I do encounter intrusive thoughts more frequently to normal people (and yes, apparently normal people also suffer from intrusive thoughts, according to the expert psychologist who wrote the book on intrusive thoughts that i read, which interestingly enough was called "intrusive thoughts!"...)

nonetheless, i do think that they are annoying

I would be very greatful if someone could explain exactly what Echolalia means for them. Repeating what exactly, for example:

repetition of another person's spoken words?

repetition of your own words or thoughts?

repetition / recalling of a piece of music?

repetition of something off the TV or radio?

For example I have delayed Echolalia, I repeat sounds and rhythmic phrases heard in the past that I find either amusing for myself or to get attention from those I trust.

Cheers,

It can be all that you just said.

I, for example, sometimes repeat phrases that I've either made up or heard somewhere.

One of them is: "I am the Wolfman.....indeed I am!"

Oh, but let us not forget about Coprolalia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolalia

Which I don't have, but it makes me sick how Hollywood likes to make people think anyone with Tourette syndrome has and it's all just hilarious hijinks. Although, admittedly one of my favorite words is, f**k followed very closely by s**t: they help make things so much more descriptive

DIVAIR