#immediate 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

[autisticdreamdrop]

here's an post about echolalia! we did our best to explain echolalia because we use echolalia constantly. here's what it means and examples! hope this makes sense for everyone reading it. a lot of alters worked on this post.

echolalia can be very hypeful for autistics and it's a form of communication. it should NOT be shunned. lots of us in the system use echolalia. a LOT. very often. for stimming, commutation, processing, whatever.

🦇 - The Dreamdrop System

[autism-asks]

Hey, I'm usually completely verbal (except when I have sensory overload) and speak extremely competently. However, I often find myself repeating a someone's question before answering. Like, someone will say "how was your day?" And I'll start to say "how was your..." before realising and then answering normally. Is this echolalia or apart of my autism? And if so, what about being autistic could make me do this???

That definitely sounds like echolalia. Often when we repeat things right after someone said it, it’s so that we can better process the information we are receiving. This also allows us more time to think about what was said and formulate an answer. 

-Sabrina

[autisticdreamdrop]

Echolalia helps us process words so we use it quite often

[autisticdreamdrop]

Auctober 2022 Day 19 - Echolalia

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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.

[keystims]

[autisticstuffs]

Definition of the Day: Echolalia

Echolalia (also known as echologia or echophrasia) is the automatic repetition of vocalizations made by another person. It is one of the echophenomena, closely related to echopraxia, the automatic repetition of movements made by another person; both are "subsets of imitative behavior" whereby sounds or actions are imitated "without explicit awareness". Echolalia may be an immediate reaction to a stimulus or may be delayed.

The word "echolalia" is derived from the Greek ἠχώ, meaning "echo" or "to repeat", and λαλιά (laliá) meaning "speech" or "talk" (of onomatopoeic origin, from the verb λαλέω (laléo), meaning "to talk").

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

Note: For more those on the more severe end of the spectrum, it can be a compulsion or an activity of short-term memory. I'm not sure how it is for other Aspies, but for me, it was a way to learn to mimic proper social response and incorporate words into everyday parlance. I remember being told that I had a very large vocabulary at an early age, repeating words from adults around me and then asking their meaning. There are times I will still repeat the words of others because the meaning didn't immediately register in my brain until I said it myself. 

There's another good example of Immediate Echolalia at this site, though it more applies to autistic children.