#echophenomena

[tourettic-compulsive-archived]

TIL Echoplasia is a rare echophenomenon seen in TS (and likely other disorders) involving involuntary tracing of contours and outlines in one's environment.

It can manifest as tracing outlines onto surfaces or in the air, moving one's body in relation to an outline, or using one's eyes to follow a shape.

[wtf-fun-factss]

Contagious yawning, a common form of echophenomena (the automatic imitation of another’s words or actions), is a real thing but scientists don't fully understand which part of the brain controls it. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(17)30966-1.pdf

[theydies-and-gentlethem]

me: hey do you ever get just one particular line of a song stuck in your head and your brain just won’t progress past that One Particular line

my brother, a neurotypica: uhh sometimes i guess

me: cool cool is it ever two words

my brother:

my brother: what

[clutchwokeup]

just caught myself chanting "socks" to the tune of LMFAO's "shots" to remind myself what i was doing

And if i ever doubted my neurodivergence, this erased it all.

[b-beams]

Is it still echolalia if it’s thoughts and not speech ?

apparently if it’s repetition inside your head then it’s called echologia, so echolalia is a separate echophenomenon because it’s out loud? i’m not really an expert, but I AM super keen on the word echophenomenon!! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ✨

[strangerdarkerbetter]

What is the term for repeating words or phrases/thoughts in your head? Like palilalia, but in your head?

Echologia

-Sabrina

[echoamplifier]

Anemone - An enemy anemone - An enemy anemone, Anne, Nemo, and another me -  Anemone An enemy anemone  

Anemone - Anemone anatomy - Anemone anatomy, another Anne and other me -  Anemone - Anemone anatomy  

An enemy - An enemy’s anatomy - An enemy’s anatomy, Anne, Nemo, and an atom me - An enemy - An enemy’s anatomy

Anemone - Anemone is an enemy - Anemone is an enemy, Anne, Nemo, and atomic me -  Anemone - Anemone is an enemy

Anemone - An enemy anemone - An enemy anemone, Anne, Nemo, and another me - Anemone - An enemy anemone  

Anemone!!!!! 

[autism-asks]

Hello! I was wondering what exactly counts as echolalia? Sometimes i get words, phrases, sounds or parts of songs stuck in my head but only for a minutes. It will go away and then come back. Maybe lasting a few days to a week? Sometimes something sounds so good to me i gotta keep it going in my mind. My mother also said when i was younger i would repeat things and laugh at them for a long time bc i thought they sounded funny (apparently i kept it up for a long time) Is that also echolalia? /1

Another thing my mother and everyone really said i would do as a child: i only talked in third person till around maybe 5 years old. I read somewhere that that may have been a sign of autism but i thought all kids did that? I just wanted to ask here! Im in the process of trying to point out possible childhood signs of autism. (Regarding my first ask on echolalia, i feel like i have already asked that question, if i have I apologize.)

Something that you’re repeating out loud is echolalia.  Something that you’re repeating in your head is echologia.  As far as I’m aware there’s not any set time that something has to last in order to count as an echophenomenon, so I think the words or phrases repeating in your head for a few minutes should still count as echologia.

For the thing about speaking in third person, difficulty with pronouns is a common autistic trait (and is found under section B1 of Sabrina’s “Diagnostic Criteria for Autism Explained” post (which, as I’ve mentioned in other posts, I basically always have open in the tab next to this one for easy reference - great job on that resource, Sabrina!)).  Speaking in the third person is definitely not a thing that all kids do

Also, just so you know, we’re usually pretty good about tagging people’s usernames when they ask stuff off anon, so if you ever want to double check whether you’ve already asked something, you can go to https://autism-asks.tumblr.com/tagged/bartholomewfatima.  Right now there’s only one post there and it’s not about echolalia, so if you did ask this before it was likely on anon, but just be aware that that resource exists.

-Liz