#delayed echolalia

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

As an autistic people, I didn’t realise the constant repetition of sounds, songs and phrases in my head, was echolagia (internalised echolalia)

Neurodivergent_lou

[forgotten80sfilm]

shane with echolalia: 1 2

when shane feels like he wins at a social interaction the script stays in his brain forever just waiting to echo at a completely random time. he’ll be driving in his boring car and all of the sudden mutter “cousins they’re in love with” then realize what he said and laugh like “ha yeah that was a good one” and then 😐 “… that was five years ago.”

[autisticdreamdrop]

Echolalia helps us process words so we use it quite often

[kravitzkrusher]

One thing that sucks about my delayed echolalia is that my brain will only make me memorize-repeat phrases of things that are really hilarious to me.

And I have to bite my jaws to keep from saying it more than a handful of times around people. I know it's only funny to other folks the first time I say it, after that it gets annoying. I was raised to mask my autism, so I repeat my phrases as quiet as I can handle it or I say it to myself in my head to keep my mask up in front of neurotypicals. Verbal stimming something funny is the greatest feeling to me though, so if it's too much I will straight up leave the room for a minute to stim and come back with a huge smile nearly laughing my ass off.

The greatest thing about it is that the phrase NEVER GETS OLD. It is funny every single goddamn time to me 😂😂 because whatever I am repeating, I absolutely love and am obsessed with.

So, for like three days straight, I've been repeating "deep rich colour" from this Trixie and Katya youtube video where they're showing off their Red Scare lipstick collection.

It's great. I love it.

My roommates, on the other hand, are tired of it.

But my brain won't forget The Thing, so...

[6-word-autism]

Story #247

Most days I speak in memes

[autisticdreamdrop]

Auctober 2022 Day 19 - Echolalia

pop pop pop pop

We use echolalia often. We use delayed and immediate echolalia. We use internal echolalia. We use it to process. We use it to stim. We use it to communicate. We use it for fun. ETC ETC.

We use echolalia with our friends, family, other alters in system and mental health team. We use echolalia around others, in public, and alone.

We repeat songs and phrases. We repeat words. We repeat sounds.

Echolalia is important to us and a lot of other autistics.

[staryulovesu]

fnuny things ive said over the past week (echolalia edition)

• Febreeze, lalalala

• Egg rhg egg

• PUT A SHEET ON IT

• Tick-tack ti-ra-ti-tack, de dok dak

• Meow.

• Wa-wa-wa

• Stinky

• Fuck you Springtrap

• Methylphenidate

[autism-asks]

If almost all life situations make you think of songs, and the majority of the time you have to sing at least the line or two you first thought of (even sometimes in situations where it's slightly inappropriate or "weird" to be singing,) is that delayed echolalia? (Like, sometimes I know I shouldn't sing but it's uncomfortable not to, so I have to at least whisper the lines)

It sounds like this could be echolalia, yes. The way I understand it, if there is a delay between the original input and your repetition of it, it could be delayed echolalia.

-Kath