When did you start talking?

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My mum has told me that I did not start talking (as in understandable, meaningful words) until my 4th birthday. Apparently talking this late is very unusual. From what I know most people seem to start talking between 1 and 2.
Is delayed speech common to AS?

Typical little professor by age 2. Mother took me to doctor to find out what was 'wrong' with me, she was very unnerved by my adult-like verbalism.

Aspies aren't supposed to have a speech delay. Only way they would is if they wear deaf in their early age, had some medical condition that kept them from talking, or if they had mutism, or if they were abused or neglected. Babies learn how to talk by being around people. If they were always locked in a bedroom like Genie was, and never were around lot of people, they won't develope language. AS would be hard to be recognized in that child because doctors won't know some of the behavior is separated from the abuse.

I don't think I was ever "abused". As far as I know, I was treat and bought up in the same way as my brother who started talking at a more normal age. Apparently I had little intreast in other people (and still have less than normal). My mum took me to a playgroup a few times when I was about 3 and dispite her trying, I would not play with the other children, I was more intreasted in the doors.

I started talking when i was 4 and spoke in monotone when i did.I went to speech therapy,they also helped me with my trouble with following instructions and getting th and f mixed up in speech.

Started talking around age three. Was mono-syllabic until after I was four. Un-nerved my parents who wanted me to speak in sentances. My father would later say they thought I'd never speak, and once I did, were afriad I'd never shut up.

I was adopted at 10 months, I wouldn't have had a "mama" or "dada" to talk to. I don't remember if they said I was talking yet. But otherwise around 1 ish, started talking. My husband started talking around 4. My son around 3, with intense speech therapy (formal and homegrown).

I was around 3 and a half when I quit using a single nonsense word.

Apparently the first word I started saying was "br" and I would normally be pointing to something which orftn appeared broken (such as a squashed can in the road) at the same time so my mum thought I was trying to say "broken"

I went to speech therapy too - only just remembered. It was because I used to say 'y' instead of 'l', like 'yilly' and 'yion' and 'yeft'. Apparently I was being picked on because of it, but the memory has just faded.

I don't actually know any of these things! I am going to find out next friday because my shrink wants to talk with my mum about it all before she diagnoses me. I am not looking forward to it

I was told I was around 8-months-old.

I started talkin wen i was 6 dis was due 2 my hearing loss as i could have been deaf.

I didn't start speaking frequently until I was four but I was reading things, such as "thank you", when I was two.

That's really the only difference between aspies and HFA. HFA have a speech delay; aspies do not.

That said, I started taking sometime around 15 or 16 months. My first word was "light." A bit ironic really, knowing what I know about sensory stuff now.

I said my first words before I was a year old.

My mother said I was talking by 9 or 10 MONTHS. The average for people in general is about 24months. I was reading by 4 years. Apparently, 5yrs is young for people in general. BTW I was also walking by 9 to 10 months. The average is between 9 and 12 months.