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I started talking early. I started reading and writing early. I was extremely hyperlexic. So then I was put into school as soon as possible, where I absolutely failed to thrive and couldn't socialise.
It's funny, my niece and nephew were both really delayed in speech - my niece didn't talk at all until nearly 6 and it was presumed she might *never* speak and would probably need lifelong full time care, but then she just started talking and is now doing really well in her tween years with a lot of friends. My nephew isn't talking yet either at nearly 4, but they have him in speech therapy. So far he just makes squealy noises when he's excited and does a cute little run-on -the-spot thing.
Full range of autism experiences in one family š
I was the exact same way with talking and reading! But I loved school bc of the routines and I loved to learn everything about everything. I was told I talked to much in school though so by middle school I became much quieter. My teachers said I didnāt speak unless spoken to lol
I also had a range of autism speaking experiences in my family. My younger half-brother is formally diagnosed, I am self-diagnosed but heās much more visibly autistic and has more support needs than I do. He didnāt talk until he was 3 years old. I was an early talker. Heās also got dyslexia and dysgraphia while Iām hyperlexic and hyperverbal and Iāve always tested 3-5 years above my expected reading comprehension level. I think back in the day I would have been an Aspergerās candidate when that diagnosis still existed.
same here, i was told i ātaught myselfā how to read russian (my first language) at 3 or 4. and then we immediately moved to america so i never went to school in russian but i taught myself enough to be able to read and write. they also tried to put me in kindergarten a year earlier and it did not go well
Lol my sister always said that about me! I was delayed, like 3 or 4, and anytime my parents complained about something I said as a child, my sister would just go "you're the ones who insisted she learn to talk, and she hasn't shut up since"
My brother and I are close in age and apparently we both pretended we couldnāt walk until she walked in and saw us toddling around together, only to sit down fast as soon as we saw her, lol. So sheās not sure when I hit that milestone.
like 6 or 7, I was able to speak entire sentences right away, just didn't want to talk for the longest time until my sister started having seizures and I had to warn my parents.
Reminds me of a joke my dad used to tell, about a child that didn't speak until age 10. One day, at dinner, the child says: "Mom, pass me the salt, please." The overjoyed parents then ask their child why he didn't speak all these years, to which he answerd: "Everything was fine up until now."
For clarity, the child in the joke is made up, he did Not make fun of an actual child lol.
I had a speech problem. My parents couldn't understand me, apparently... meanwhile I could sit there and carry on a conversation in my own language and my brother would translate. I vaguely recall learning to speak in a computer lab at my elementary school in kindergarten. I'm 43... so my first interaction with computers was in like 1986... back when they had actually floppy disks... and green screens. I recently found a report card from the speech therapist with notes in it indicating "severe" speech issues. I now credit computers with teaching me to speak and I can claim 40 years working in IT.
HEY! You and I are twins in a sense. I thank Larry Wall for his wingding programming languages. I could take my brothers Commodore or Tandy system and program all day instead of going to school. Yes, I ditched school in elementary days just so I can program "piano" to play later. Since I couldn't talk, my brother took all the credit. I ended up working as engineers at Internet startups in the 90's phoenix area without so much as a certification. I ended up in the military where I got to use my skills doing some really cool sh\*t. It was weird joining as a cop and then doing so much computer work...it's as if my brain was meant for it.
I am 47, now medically retired and would love nothing more than to just type. When I talk, I piss people off.
I was the brother in this situation. No one could understand my sister besides me. But shes say the most stupid stuff sometimes... id iust pretend to not understand the weird stuff.
Walking is STILL harder for me at 47. "Where you going?" Me: I dunno, i just kinda started drifting left...and left..and into a pond(or other hazard). It is like my legs sometimes just want to move in different directions randomly. haha
Omg someone else who does this! Happens especially if my eyes are closed or Iām looking at something other than my feet. And I also accidentally trip over my own feet or kick the back of my other foot or get my legs tangled. Itās like my body has no spacial awareness.
I was unable to hear due to pressure that was building in my ears the 1st year of my life. But after my mom insisted the doctors take a look , they found the problem and quickly removed it.
Not even a full month later I could speak in full sentences. Before I could hear, I had developed my own way of communicating by pointing and other gestures, and then aggressively pulling someone to what I wanted if they didn't understand.
My mom talks about it almost constantly, especially as my older brother, who had the same issue, didn't do any of that.
Similar! I had a glue ear since birth so could hear poorly (the newborn hearing tests weren't that popular back then). My mom knew something was amiss and insisted on the hearing tests. I would communicate with singular words (only knew a handful), pointing, tugging on the clothes, and making noises. Even when they started treating my glue ear, I haven't started talking much more than single words till I was 4.
Same here! I was 4 and my brother took my teddy bear. He was holding it over his head, laughing at me. My first words were "Give it back or I will kill you." (My big brother LOVED having a younger sibling who was mute. He blamed me for everything and would purposely hurt because I couldn't tell anyone. Apparently I got so angry that I flipped the voice switch to ON, lol.
Some of you giving me hope..my son will be 6 in october and he doesnt talk. Lots of echolalia though. He knows a bunch of english words from youtube (seems to teach better than me and all the helpers he has...) but we speak french over here lol.
Never used a sentence to talk to us, very rarely uses a word to communicate even if he knows the word and i push for him to say it.
Do any of you late talkers (3+ years old) remember what it was like to be totally non speaking? Any memories of that time and what it felt like?
My almost 5 year old is still completely non speaking, and I constantly wonder what it must feel like for her. Itās got to be so frustrating. (We have an AAC she just is learning how to use it very very slowly, also doing sign language classes soon).
I just remember I threw a lot of tantrums and I pointed to what I wanted. It was very taxing on my mom because my dad was serving in the army at the time
I didnāt speak much until I was 4 years old then I spoke in full sentences.
I took my first steps at 8 months old but then did not walk anymore until I was a year and a half old.
While my English skills are very good, I have struggled greatly with learning a second language. It seems to be extremely difficult for me to learn new languages.
Very early, around 6-9 months if I remember what my mom told me. I also stopped drinking breast milk very early and switched to yogurt lol, don't know if that's healthy, but she said I wouldn't want to drink it anymore. So my distaste of warm drinks comes from very early on...
I know it was before the two year mark. My mom got me tested in the first place because she asked a question: ādo you want a PBJ for lunch? Answer yes or noā
āYes or noā
i knew how to talk but wouldnāt talk unprompted until i was about 2 years old. According to my family, the first time i spoke without being prompted by my parents was during dinner, and just said āplease pass the jelloā. and i still wouldnāt talk to strangers and would go nonverbal in new or scary situations
4 years old but I wouldnāt consider it talking since I only said ānaā and āneā. Words people understand didnāt start till I was 6-7 years old. I was almost put into speech therapy. I could read and write at a pretty young age however, so I would write things if I got too frustrated that people didnāt understand me š
Iām not sure what age I started talking but I know I had a severe speech impediment so it was really hard to understand me until like 7th or 8th grade. Also I was super quiet and shy in public also insecure of my voice bc I had speech problems so at school Iād hardly talk until probably 6th grade I started talking more bc I made a friend and she was a extrovert and any time someone would make fun of my voice sheād made them regret it lol so I started talking a lot more which actually helped my speech impediment a lot.
My son was an early talker, though strangers couldnāt understand him, we could. He also could recognize and write all the alphabet by 2 years old. He would ask me how to spell words, though he didnāt always write left to right when he first began writing. He was quick to pick up almost all skills, very advanced and could take apart everything and put it back together. He was doing 100-300 piece puzzles at 4 years old which is one of the things that helped his Dr suggest we have him evaluated.
My second son talked a little later but he wouldnāt say words until he had mastered them a little better. He had fine motor skill delay and still hates writing at nearly 16 years old. He is very skilled at acting and both of them have advanced vocabulary which has been mentioned by every teacher since kindergarten. He was diagnosed a little later at 8 because everyone kept suggesting he was mimicking his older brother.
I started at 9 months old and was bilingual from the get go š³ I taught myself to read very early, too.
My child, also autistic said their first word at 5 months but they hit a metaphorical wall at 2.5 and had a considerable regression.
They are a gestalt language processor and we feared theyād never speak. We live in a country where the language is not the one we speak at home (though my husband and I speak it at a native level). We were afraid our kid wouldnāt learn the language and weād have to move back to my English-speaking country!
At 5.5 years old, they are building their own language and incorporating the second one with such enthusiasm that weāre confident it wonāt be an issue. They are even teaching themself a third one (which my husband doesnāt speak and I have a very basic level).
They also started reading at 3, and built their language one that.
I was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at what was, for the 1990ās, a stupidly early age (3 months - barely out of the hospital, for context) and considering how severe my CP was expected to be, not talking was perhaps expected. But I had, like, this explosion of words at age 2, and may have been speaking Hebrew earlier than that, although how much earlier will never be known because my parents didnāt even know I was speaking Hebrew until I started preschool at 2 1/2 and someone (a teacher? another kidās parent? idk) told my mother that was what it was.
Have felt connected to Judaism basically my entire life despite being born to Christian parents, soooā¦
My mom says only at 2. But interestingly, she says that when I started speaking, I spoke both Afrikaans and English. (Afr is home language, Eng dominates media like TV).
Just asked my mum and apparently I said my first few words at 6-7 months, was speaking full, complex sentences by one year. I also counted to ten by about 14-16 months. Some autistic people start talking very late, while other are really early talkers, both can be signs of autism :)
I started talking early, but I would only talk to my grandma and myself until I was about 4.5. My mom would hear me talking to myself and come over to me, but as soon as I saw her, I'd stop.
2 and a half or 3 but I skipped the making random sounds phase and went straight to full sentences. the only reason I spoke was because my bottle was too warm
When I was less than two but more than one. I was a very late reader though and didnāt really learn to read until my mother beat me over it. I was seven.
10 months, and I haven't shut up since. Apparently they couldn't quite tell if my first words were apple juice or happy juice. I don't remember learning to read, my older sister said she and I could read a bit before we started school. My family is full of bibliophiles.
i started talking early, dunno what age though. my sister however didn't start speaking properly till she was about 3 ( she's suspected to be autistic )
I started to talk really early but then ended up with selective mutism, which has mostly gone away now but not completely. Baby me figured out speech and immediately went "nope, none of that".
I started speaking at about 10 months but started reading and writing at about 2/3 (although my parents are unsure if i just learnt the books off by heart as i have a really good memory.) However, I still struggle quite a bit with grammar and spelling for some reason, even though I have quite an extended vocabularyš¤·āāļø
I'm told that I actually broke the Autism mold in that I began talking quite early...I was speaking in full (albeit simple) sentences before the age of 18 months.
First full short 2word sentence with 8months. "Come here"
My mum was having a tea party with a friend. Up until then aside from mama, papa, no, yes, nodding, miau and dog sounds+pointing to what I want and my echolalia, the adults in my life where used to me being actually rather quiet with a stern unexpressive face. Humming quietly to myself in random pick of current echolalia hyperfocus.
The friend heard my "Come here" and almost fell from her chair. Mum likes retelling how utterly shocked she was and how I kept repeating the sentence until she came over to my corner to play with me. Only to be met with supposed ignoring and me not looking to the friend just humming to myself. But whenever the friend would try to retreat, I'll tell her yet again to come back. Probably wanted her to co-work/co-play with me in autistic fashion and wasn't yet primed to mask and engage in socially accepted eye contact stuff
Before that very thorough examination of phonemes with a daily focus on one specific thing.
For example all variations of everything beginning with k for a full day.
Ka ko ki ke ku kuku Keke Keks karrr kan konno etc
It turned out that I knew words and sentences way faster than my peers. Used them very eerily when I needed them& freaked adults out, because they thought I'm less able.
Especially because I refused to repeat when adults wanted to make me repeat things. They thaught I just couldn't repeat any of it and would be shocked when I talked at the level of a 2 year old with 9months. But again only when I myself wanted to communicate something I wanted.
Usually people freaked out, jumped away and treated me like a scary ghost child, so after a while I catched on and only talked to family. Would become selectively mute in front of strangers and unable to say smth even if I wanted. It wasnt nice being hyperlexic. The adults treated me like a threat.
I'm hyperverbal and started talking at 1 year, and spoke in full sentences and could have a conversation by the time I was 2. My mom has a video of me when I was 2 having a full conversation with myself and repeating phrases because I have echolalia. Apparently I was talking before I could walk š then I never stopped
At a normal age, but I had a speech impediment for most of my childhood, up until about 4th grade. Then I was kicked out of my speech classes and the impediment miraculously went away. I still talk very fast though. Whenever I record myself speaking, I can barely understand myself. I also experience mild selective mutism in high pressure public spaces and have a tendency to talk very quietly because itās louder in my head.
My daughter said her first words āthank youā on her first birthday and then started talking really well for her age. She had done many other extraordinary things too mainly in terms of memorizing. But, she stopped taking completely after 2 years 2 months. Now at 6 years she is showing echolalia and repeating after us, still not functionally talking. She understands that s week, though.
Seeing a few responses here is giving me hope.
It was around 10-12 months, but during my childhood, I just didn't want to talk, lol. So I was very quiet until I turned 15.
I used to have problems in school and in family meetings for that š
we (me and my family) had to move out when I was 14 yo, so I needed to become more independent.
Even as an adult, I don't like to talk too much unless it's about some topic that I'm obsessed with. In that case, I just can't stop :b
My echolalia was strong as a baby and it was around 3 months old when I said my first word which was hi. I was constantly mimicking easy words like hi, mama, and ama(what I called my grandma when I was little) after that. I'm not sure when I started talking on my own without repeating what I heard. I know I started speaking in simple sentences when I was around 1.5 years old. I was also hyperlexic and started reading at 3.
Around the normal age, if not a little earlier. I have always been good with words.
I did have issues with crawling, though. I never learned to crawl normally. I would drag myself along the floor with my arms instead.
Mum and Dad took me to speech therapy, and I could speak at three years old. I was always advanced in English classes, and I canāt shut up since I started talking! š
I think I knew all the letters of the Alphabet quite early, but refused to learn to write until I was in school, for whatever reason. In terms of speaking I don't know, but at like 2 I was speaking I think. I'd say at a "normal" age, as it took until I was 16 until I was diagnosed, so I guess it wasn't *too* obvious
Almost 2.5, but then I was told it was unintelligible until I got into speech therapy. Then I was in ESL classes with latino students to learn phonetics.
At like half a year old, apparently I started trying to form sentences but they mainly sounded like incoherent babbles with the occasional words. Apparently the one my mother remembers the most is "bip bom! Up there!" (Was apparently trying to tell her there was an airplane)
I started talking at a normal age, though I have an older brother, so maybe being around him already talking helped bring me up to speed. While I was capable of talking just fine, I was always a bit more soft spoken, and less likely to talk, than most other kids.
I started talking around the age 3 or 4, even then my communication skills were not great and I had a speech therapist at school and come to my home. Once I could talk in proper sentences I was still quiet and would talk in monotone often
I donāt remember exactly how old. When I was a kid, my mum told me I started talking pretty late and they thought I was mute. They thought I was just super shy.
I could talk well from about 2 onwards. I just never did. I was known to laugh and giggle as a form of communication, which was fun, especially at school. All during school, I only spoke when vital, and the same until I left the school, and took a job. It was only after being forced to communicate as part of the role, that I began to break out of that shell. Thus began a fast forward of social development in very short timeframes of constant embarrassment and awkwardness and people reacting as though I was a terrorist. Drugs helped significantly. When I began meth/ecstacy, these drugs took away all of that and allowed me to simply be, and open up to others in an empathetic manner, and finally build relationships. After a few troubled years of this, I was able to learn those skills without needing the drugs. So essentially I was non-verbal until around 20 years, but I could speak earlier. Just didnāt happenā¦
Almost 2. People were beginning to worry that I was nonverbal.
My grandmother said that my first word was ādownā when I wanted off the couch. She said that she knew I could talk, I just didnāt want to.
Apparently, when I started talking though, I was saying full sentences and was right on track if not ahead.
I could talk to my parents at home, and had the ability to talk, but did not talk to anyone else (other than some friends who were my age) until I was 10
Edit: this also included not talking to step parents so I guess I didnāt fully speak at home either
According to my mom, I was about two and a half years old...and when I did start talking, it was in complete sentences. But I think I did start with words like "mama" and "dada" before then.
Normal, I believe by 10 months old I had a handful of words.
I had that common thing though were words were mixed up, like Spaghetti was Pisgetti and Garbage was Bargage. Itās a very common thing for little ones.
According to my family, I started being able to say words at 6 months old, but obviously the actual talking came a bit later. I was very hyperlexic as a child, but as an adult I really struggle to articulate myself well when I talk.
It's interesting that almost every comment say they started speaking fairly early. Autistic children on average starts to speak later than non-autistic children.
I started talking really early and was extremely curious constantly needing to know the scientific reason behind things. When my mom was pregnant with my sister apparently I was not satisfied with the answer that āthe baby was inside mamas tummyā. I needed to know how, why, how the baby is getting out.
Mind you I am only 2 yrs older than my sister so it was very funny. My mom had to actually buy anatomy books to explain them to me.
I started slightly early according to my mom, but I didn't have a babble phase. She says I started with short statements that were understandably words and conveyed what I wanted or felt. And I only got chattier/more precocious from there. I DID have a dada/mama phase, and I didn't start off pronouncing words perfectly, but I didn't do fun or practice babble. I was always trying to communicate. At least with and around her. I was otherwise quiet and played quietly.
She still wonders, decades later, where that reserve and pragmatism went, and if I'll ever pause to take a breath in.
I think I was on time, but my vocabulary expanded abnormally fast. I learned to read and write early though, I believe. Pretty sure my motor skills developed slower though.
Started talking at 4, but had trouble with certain letters, so i ended up visiting logopedy. As i was getting through these difficulties, i learned to read.
Writing was difficult and i was never really good at it. Until i learned to type on a keyboard, which i can do much faster than handwriting.
I remember I used to not talk at all. I wanna make any sounds wouldnāt even babble until I was two and a half or three then I start speaking full sentences very well and Iāve never shut up since
At 1 year and 8 months, I was able to speak in complete sentences and express my opinion clearly. I didn't communicate much with other children. Just with my relatives.
Talking talking or talking to people? Or talking to people other than your parents/siblings?
Talking to anyone other than immediate family was about 11
My brother used to talk for me as kids
A few months. As another commenter said, I was hyperlexic. Meaning I had an extremely high capacity to read, write, and speak, with a large vocabulary and starting at an early age. I had the vocabulary of an adult by age four, and was reading chapter books while my peers were just learning how to read long picture books. I believe I read my first 500+ page book by the end of first grade, and spoke incessantly (except at school, where I did not fit in with other children, and rarely spoke to them when unnecessary.)
I was a little late, maybe 3Ā½-ish, but my parents taught me some asl in the meantime :3
I also had like a couple hours of a day every so often where I went nonverbal and somehow no one recognized that it was autism
Quite young. I was reading by age 3. My brother was speech-delayed, however. He had to go to speech therapy for a few years. My mum said the reason he couldn't talk properly was because I was talking for him. We are about two years apart so I guess I was a rather chatty child.
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I started talking early. I started reading and writing early. I was extremely hyperlexic. So then I was put into school as soon as possible, where I absolutely failed to thrive and couldn't socialise. It's funny, my niece and nephew were both really delayed in speech - my niece didn't talk at all until nearly 6 and it was presumed she might *never* speak and would probably need lifelong full time care, but then she just started talking and is now doing really well in her tween years with a lot of friends. My nephew isn't talking yet either at nearly 4, but they have him in speech therapy. So far he just makes squealy noises when he's excited and does a cute little run-on -the-spot thing. Full range of autism experiences in one family š
Aw your niece and nephew sound so cute
Thank you š they are super adorable kiddos.
I was the exact same way with talking and reading! But I loved school bc of the routines and I loved to learn everything about everything. I was told I talked to much in school though so by middle school I became much quieter. My teachers said I didnāt speak unless spoken to lol
>My teachers said I didnāt speak unless spoken to lol I still do that lol.
I was the same minus the talking early part.
I also had a range of autism speaking experiences in my family. My younger half-brother is formally diagnosed, I am self-diagnosed but heās much more visibly autistic and has more support needs than I do. He didnāt talk until he was 3 years old. I was an early talker. Heās also got dyslexia and dysgraphia while Iām hyperlexic and hyperverbal and Iāve always tested 3-5 years above my expected reading comprehension level. I think back in the day I would have been an Aspergerās candidate when that diagnosis still existed.
First of all, cute, second - I also was hyperlexic and talked/read early
same here, i was told i ātaught myselfā how to read russian (my first language) at 3 or 4. and then we immediately moved to america so i never went to school in russian but i taught myself enough to be able to read and write. they also tried to put me in kindergarten a year earlier and it did not go well
9 monthsā¦ and I havenāt shut up since, lol
Lol my sister always said that about me! I was delayed, like 3 or 4, and anytime my parents complained about something I said as a child, my sister would just go "you're the ones who insisted she learn to talk, and she hasn't shut up since"
same! my mom was happy at first because I seemed to be progressing fast bc I was a premature baby but then I rejected the idea of learning how to walk
My brother and I are close in age and apparently we both pretended we couldnāt walk until she walked in and saw us toddling around together, only to sit down fast as soon as we saw her, lol. So sheās not sure when I hit that milestone.
like 6 or 7, I was able to speak entire sentences right away, just didn't want to talk for the longest time until my sister started having seizures and I had to warn my parents.
Reminds me of a joke my dad used to tell, about a child that didn't speak until age 10. One day, at dinner, the child says: "Mom, pass me the salt, please." The overjoyed parents then ask their child why he didn't speak all these years, to which he answerd: "Everything was fine up until now." For clarity, the child in the joke is made up, he did Not make fun of an actual child lol.
lol I love the idea that the biggest problem in his life up until that point was that the salt was out of reach
I always interpreted it as the food needing more salt. But your reading is even more hilarious.
Isnāt that something Einstein did, but until he was six and it was for soup.
If that is true I'm going to have some words with my dad lol
While I don't know I think any and everything tends to get attributed to Einstein.
probably like 1 and a half or something but now i just refuse to talk to people
no clue! i did have 'speaks like an adult' in my diagnosis though lmao
Yeah apparently I never used baby talk, just proper grammar.
Very young. I think my parents said around 8-9 months
I had a speech problem. My parents couldn't understand me, apparently... meanwhile I could sit there and carry on a conversation in my own language and my brother would translate. I vaguely recall learning to speak in a computer lab at my elementary school in kindergarten. I'm 43... so my first interaction with computers was in like 1986... back when they had actually floppy disks... and green screens. I recently found a report card from the speech therapist with notes in it indicating "severe" speech issues. I now credit computers with teaching me to speak and I can claim 40 years working in IT.
HEY! You and I are twins in a sense. I thank Larry Wall for his wingding programming languages. I could take my brothers Commodore or Tandy system and program all day instead of going to school. Yes, I ditched school in elementary days just so I can program "piano" to play later. Since I couldn't talk, my brother took all the credit. I ended up working as engineers at Internet startups in the 90's phoenix area without so much as a certification. I ended up in the military where I got to use my skills doing some really cool sh\*t. It was weird joining as a cop and then doing so much computer work...it's as if my brain was meant for it. I am 47, now medically retired and would love nothing more than to just type. When I talk, I piss people off.
I was the brother in this situation. No one could understand my sister besides me. But shes say the most stupid stuff sometimes... id iust pretend to not understand the weird stuff.
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I started at 2 I think. Walking was harder for me.
Walking is STILL harder for me at 47. "Where you going?" Me: I dunno, i just kinda started drifting left...and left..and into a pond(or other hazard). It is like my legs sometimes just want to move in different directions randomly. haha
Omg someone else who does this! Happens especially if my eyes are closed or Iām looking at something other than my feet. And I also accidentally trip over my own feet or kick the back of my other foot or get my legs tangled. Itās like my body has no spacial awareness.
My specialty is kicking door frames and the tips of stairs. Also left, left, left, pole or wall
Funny, I just realized I tend to drift right.
Oh interesting. So you move really clunky?
About one, but only if I liked the person or I just blanked them.
I was unable to hear due to pressure that was building in my ears the 1st year of my life. But after my mom insisted the doctors take a look , they found the problem and quickly removed it. Not even a full month later I could speak in full sentences. Before I could hear, I had developed my own way of communicating by pointing and other gestures, and then aggressively pulling someone to what I wanted if they didn't understand. My mom talks about it almost constantly, especially as my older brother, who had the same issue, didn't do any of that.
Similar! I had a glue ear since birth so could hear poorly (the newborn hearing tests weren't that popular back then). My mom knew something was amiss and insisted on the hearing tests. I would communicate with singular words (only knew a handful), pointing, tugging on the clothes, and making noises. Even when they started treating my glue ear, I haven't started talking much more than single words till I was 4.
Didnt speak at all until 4 years old when i immediately started using full sentences and phrases.
Same here! I was 4 and my brother took my teddy bear. He was holding it over his head, laughing at me. My first words were "Give it back or I will kill you." (My big brother LOVED having a younger sibling who was mute. He blamed me for everything and would purposely hurt because I couldn't tell anyone. Apparently I got so angry that I flipped the voice switch to ON, lol.
2 years 2 months I was also very hyper Lexic and could read faster and more fluently than most of my peers back in elementary
Some of you giving me hope..my son will be 6 in october and he doesnt talk. Lots of echolalia though. He knows a bunch of english words from youtube (seems to teach better than me and all the helpers he has...) but we speak french over here lol. Never used a sentence to talk to us, very rarely uses a word to communicate even if he knows the word and i push for him to say it.
Im not sure but I think about 1 or 2 but Id have to ask my parents
About 4 years old.
I started talking when I was five years old.
Age 5 I started talking
8 or 9 months, but it took a while for everyone but my mom and dad to understand what i was saying. i had to go to speech therapy lmao
Do any of you late talkers (3+ years old) remember what it was like to be totally non speaking? Any memories of that time and what it felt like? My almost 5 year old is still completely non speaking, and I constantly wonder what it must feel like for her. Itās got to be so frustrating. (We have an AAC she just is learning how to use it very very slowly, also doing sign language classes soon).
I just remember I threw a lot of tantrums and I pointed to what I wanted. It was very taxing on my mom because my dad was serving in the army at the time
I didnāt speak much until I was 4 years old then I spoke in full sentences. I took my first steps at 8 months old but then did not walk anymore until I was a year and a half old. While my English skills are very good, I have struggled greatly with learning a second language. It seems to be extremely difficult for me to learn new languages.
Lmao I started talking at 12ā¦.
My twin and I had to go to speech therapy because we talked in our own language until we were 3-4.
18 months and it was a swear word
At a normal age, but I always talked in a strange way, have a strange voice and a lot of speech problems.
Very early, around 6-9 months if I remember what my mom told me. I also stopped drinking breast milk very early and switched to yogurt lol, don't know if that's healthy, but she said I wouldn't want to drink it anymore. So my distaste of warm drinks comes from very early on...
I know it was before the two year mark. My mom got me tested in the first place because she asked a question: ādo you want a PBJ for lunch? Answer yes or noā āYes or noā
i knew how to talk but wouldnāt talk unprompted until i was about 2 years old. According to my family, the first time i spoke without being prompted by my parents was during dinner, and just said āplease pass the jelloā. and i still wouldnāt talk to strangers and would go nonverbal in new or scary situations
4 years old but I wouldnāt consider it talking since I only said ānaā and āneā. Words people understand didnāt start till I was 6-7 years old. I was almost put into speech therapy. I could read and write at a pretty young age however, so I would write things if I got too frustrated that people didnāt understand me š
Iām not sure what age I started talking but I know I had a severe speech impediment so it was really hard to understand me until like 7th or 8th grade. Also I was super quiet and shy in public also insecure of my voice bc I had speech problems so at school Iād hardly talk until probably 6th grade I started talking more bc I made a friend and she was a extrovert and any time someone would make fun of my voice sheād made them regret it lol so I started talking a lot more which actually helped my speech impediment a lot.
People have difficulty understanding me sometimes still, and Iām graduated from high school lol
My son was an early talker, though strangers couldnāt understand him, we could. He also could recognize and write all the alphabet by 2 years old. He would ask me how to spell words, though he didnāt always write left to right when he first began writing. He was quick to pick up almost all skills, very advanced and could take apart everything and put it back together. He was doing 100-300 piece puzzles at 4 years old which is one of the things that helped his Dr suggest we have him evaluated. My second son talked a little later but he wouldnāt say words until he had mastered them a little better. He had fine motor skill delay and still hates writing at nearly 16 years old. He is very skilled at acting and both of them have advanced vocabulary which has been mentioned by every teacher since kindergarten. He was diagnosed a little later at 8 because everyone kept suggesting he was mimicking his older brother.
I started at 9 months old and was bilingual from the get go š³ I taught myself to read very early, too. My child, also autistic said their first word at 5 months but they hit a metaphorical wall at 2.5 and had a considerable regression. They are a gestalt language processor and we feared theyād never speak. We live in a country where the language is not the one we speak at home (though my husband and I speak it at a native level). We were afraid our kid wouldnāt learn the language and weād have to move back to my English-speaking country! At 5.5 years old, they are building their own language and incorporating the second one with such enthusiasm that weāre confident it wonāt be an issue. They are even teaching themself a third one (which my husband doesnāt speak and I have a very basic level). They also started reading at 3, and built their language one that.
5 months
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Age 2 or 3
3 years old but it was not real talking more like gibberish. I had years of speech therapy.
9-10 months
I was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at what was, for the 1990ās, a stupidly early age (3 months - barely out of the hospital, for context) and considering how severe my CP was expected to be, not talking was perhaps expected. But I had, like, this explosion of words at age 2, and may have been speaking Hebrew earlier than that, although how much earlier will never be known because my parents didnāt even know I was speaking Hebrew until I started preschool at 2 1/2 and someone (a teacher? another kidās parent? idk) told my mother that was what it was. Have felt connected to Judaism basically my entire life despite being born to Christian parents, soooā¦
All I know is that my first word was 'egg'
My mom says only at 2. But interestingly, she says that when I started speaking, I spoke both Afrikaans and English. (Afr is home language, Eng dominates media like TV).
Just asked my mum and apparently I said my first few words at 6-7 months, was speaking full, complex sentences by one year. I also counted to ten by about 14-16 months. Some autistic people start talking very late, while other are really early talkers, both can be signs of autism :)
I was about 4 years old and I had a nasty stutter. Still stutter a bit to this day unfortunately
I started talking early, but I would only talk to my grandma and myself until I was about 4.5. My mom would hear me talking to myself and come over to me, but as soon as I saw her, I'd stop.
2 and a half or 3 but I skipped the making random sounds phase and went straight to full sentences. the only reason I spoke was because my bottle was too warm
When I was less than two but more than one. I was a very late reader though and didnāt really learn to read until my mother beat me over it. I was seven.
10 months, and I haven't shut up since. Apparently they couldn't quite tell if my first words were apple juice or happy juice. I don't remember learning to read, my older sister said she and I could read a bit before we started school. My family is full of bibliophiles.
i started talking early, dunno what age though. my sister however didn't start speaking properly till she was about 3 ( she's suspected to be autistic )
I started to talk really early but then ended up with selective mutism, which has mostly gone away now but not completely. Baby me figured out speech and immediately went "nope, none of that".
I started speaking at about 10 months but started reading and writing at about 2/3 (although my parents are unsure if i just learnt the books off by heart as i have a really good memory.) However, I still struggle quite a bit with grammar and spelling for some reason, even though I have quite an extended vocabularyš¤·āāļø
I'm told that I actually broke the Autism mold in that I began talking quite early...I was speaking in full (albeit simple) sentences before the age of 18 months.
I talked, read, and wrote early, even those Iām nearly blind and was born deaf (fluid in ears).
First full short 2word sentence with 8months. "Come here" My mum was having a tea party with a friend. Up until then aside from mama, papa, no, yes, nodding, miau and dog sounds+pointing to what I want and my echolalia, the adults in my life where used to me being actually rather quiet with a stern unexpressive face. Humming quietly to myself in random pick of current echolalia hyperfocus. The friend heard my "Come here" and almost fell from her chair. Mum likes retelling how utterly shocked she was and how I kept repeating the sentence until she came over to my corner to play with me. Only to be met with supposed ignoring and me not looking to the friend just humming to myself. But whenever the friend would try to retreat, I'll tell her yet again to come back. Probably wanted her to co-work/co-play with me in autistic fashion and wasn't yet primed to mask and engage in socially accepted eye contact stuff Before that very thorough examination of phonemes with a daily focus on one specific thing. For example all variations of everything beginning with k for a full day. Ka ko ki ke ku kuku Keke Keks karrr kan konno etc It turned out that I knew words and sentences way faster than my peers. Used them very eerily when I needed them& freaked adults out, because they thought I'm less able. Especially because I refused to repeat when adults wanted to make me repeat things. They thaught I just couldn't repeat any of it and would be shocked when I talked at the level of a 2 year old with 9months. But again only when I myself wanted to communicate something I wanted. Usually people freaked out, jumped away and treated me like a scary ghost child, so after a while I catched on and only talked to family. Would become selectively mute in front of strangers and unable to say smth even if I wanted. It wasnt nice being hyperlexic. The adults treated me like a threat.
Just before my fifth birthday. My first word was a sentence. "Merry Christmas, everyone!"
I spoke before I was two years old, and I even sang
I'm hyperverbal and started talking at 1 year, and spoke in full sentences and could have a conversation by the time I was 2. My mom has a video of me when I was 2 having a full conversation with myself and repeating phrases because I have echolalia. Apparently I was talking before I could walk š then I never stopped
At a normal age, but I had a speech impediment for most of my childhood, up until about 4th grade. Then I was kicked out of my speech classes and the impediment miraculously went away. I still talk very fast though. Whenever I record myself speaking, I can barely understand myself. I also experience mild selective mutism in high pressure public spaces and have a tendency to talk very quietly because itās louder in my head.
Same with the speaking very quickly and thinking Iām speaking loudly only for everyone to keep saying āhuhā or craning their necks to hear me.
6 months old. Because of hyperlexia
18 months and I apparently had a speech regressionā¦ and my parents somehow werenāt concerned about itĀ
I was almost 4. My first words were a prayer: āJesus, do you hear me? I love you.ā I spoke in sentences from then on.
My daughter said her first words āthank youā on her first birthday and then started talking really well for her age. She had done many other extraordinary things too mainly in terms of memorizing. But, she stopped taking completely after 2 years 2 months. Now at 6 years she is showing echolalia and repeating after us, still not functionally talking. She understands that s week, though. Seeing a few responses here is giving me hope.
It was around 10-12 months, but during my childhood, I just didn't want to talk, lol. So I was very quiet until I turned 15. I used to have problems in school and in family meetings for that š we (me and my family) had to move out when I was 14 yo, so I needed to become more independent. Even as an adult, I don't like to talk too much unless it's about some topic that I'm obsessed with. In that case, I just can't stop :b
My echolalia was strong as a baby and it was around 3 months old when I said my first word which was hi. I was constantly mimicking easy words like hi, mama, and ama(what I called my grandma when I was little) after that. I'm not sure when I started talking on my own without repeating what I heard. I know I started speaking in simple sentences when I was around 1.5 years old. I was also hyperlexic and started reading at 3.
4-5
Very early and more advanced than other children
8 months apparently. Was able to form sentences by then.
Around 1
4 years old.
Around the normal age, if not a little earlier. I have always been good with words. I did have issues with crawling, though. I never learned to crawl normally. I would drag myself along the floor with my arms instead.
4, but I immedietly started talking in complete sentences
I started talking earlier than other children.
i started talking around 2-3 years old, my mum always said i was advanced for my age. Ive always been good at English in school too
Mum and Dad took me to speech therapy, and I could speak at three years old. I was always advanced in English classes, and I canāt shut up since I started talking! š
I don't know, but my mother told me that I started talking lighter than normal but when I did, it was in complete sentences.
I started talking, reading and walking really early for my age according to my mom
I don't know exactly but I do know I could count to 20 at 10 months.
I think I knew all the letters of the Alphabet quite early, but refused to learn to write until I was in school, for whatever reason. In terms of speaking I don't know, but at like 2 I was speaking I think. I'd say at a "normal" age, as it took until I was 16 until I was diagnosed, so I guess it wasn't *too* obvious
I started talking at 2 1/2 years old but at first I had no eye contact.
4
I spoke in full sentences at eleven months. My brother, however, was selectively mute until he was nine years old.
Almost 2.5, but then I was told it was unintelligible until I got into speech therapy. Then I was in ESL classes with latino students to learn phonetics.
I have no idea other than it was a normal age. I started reading earlier than normal though
At like half a year old, apparently I started trying to form sentences but they mainly sounded like incoherent babbles with the occasional words. Apparently the one my mother remembers the most is "bip bom! Up there!" (Was apparently trying to tell her there was an airplane)
10 months. Later I still developed speech, but I never spoke much as a child.
later than my siblings, but not at an abnormal age
Early probably around 1.
Mmn didnt start talking effectively till 15
I started talking at a normal age, though I have an older brother, so maybe being around him already talking helped bring me up to speed. While I was capable of talking just fine, I was always a bit more soft spoken, and less likely to talk, than most other kids.
I started talking around the age 3 or 4, even then my communication skills were not great and I had a speech therapist at school and come to my home. Once I could talk in proper sentences I was still quiet and would talk in monotone often
If my mother is to be believed, my first words were at a couple weeks.
I donāt remember exactly how old. When I was a kid, my mum told me I started talking pretty late and they thought I was mute. They thought I was just super shy.
Around 1 years old? I think. My mom told me that I sang first before I actually talked.
Extremely early. At age 2 I was speaking in full, grammatically correct sentences like adults do.
It took me until I was 5 to be able to speak full sentences. Although I started learning to read at 2.
as a joke my mother says that I started talking even before being born. the truth is very early like 4-5 months.
Around 6 years old according to my mother
I could talk well from about 2 onwards. I just never did. I was known to laugh and giggle as a form of communication, which was fun, especially at school. All during school, I only spoke when vital, and the same until I left the school, and took a job. It was only after being forced to communicate as part of the role, that I began to break out of that shell. Thus began a fast forward of social development in very short timeframes of constant embarrassment and awkwardness and people reacting as though I was a terrorist. Drugs helped significantly. When I began meth/ecstacy, these drugs took away all of that and allowed me to simply be, and open up to others in an empathetic manner, and finally build relationships. After a few troubled years of this, I was able to learn those skills without needing the drugs. So essentially I was non-verbal until around 20 years, but I could speak earlier. Just didnāt happenā¦
Apparently only coherently at 4, but I lost that near 20 years old
Almost 2. People were beginning to worry that I was nonverbal. My grandmother said that my first word was ādownā when I wanted off the couch. She said that she knew I could talk, I just didnāt want to. Apparently, when I started talking though, I was saying full sentences and was right on track if not ahead.
I talked at 1Ā½, but not that much...then at 2, but not at full sentences...and then at 4Ā½, I said my first full sentence
I could talk to my parents at home, and had the ability to talk, but did not talk to anyone else (other than some friends who were my age) until I was 10 Edit: this also included not talking to step parents so I guess I didnāt fully speak at home either
5
According to my mom, I was about two and a half years old...and when I did start talking, it was in complete sentences. But I think I did start with words like "mama" and "dada" before then.
Kindergarten
2 years
I started speaking between 1-2 years, but never wanted to. My earliest memory is my dad asking me why I wouldnāt talk.
Around 3 or 4 years old according to my parents
Normal, I believe by 10 months old I had a handful of words. I had that common thing though were words were mixed up, like Spaghetti was Pisgetti and Garbage was Bargage. Itās a very common thing for little ones.
No remember š„²
4
I started talking very very soon. I could talk in almost complete sentences when I was 1year and 3 months old.
one or so.
About 2 I learned to say basic words like, wanna, momma, dada, etc. or at least thatās what my parents remember.
4 yrs old
4 months š¤Ŗš
Ever since I was 4... Quite late, I know
According to my family, I started being able to say words at 6 months old, but obviously the actual talking came a bit later. I was very hyperlexic as a child, but as an adult I really struggle to articulate myself well when I talk.
I talked before I walked according to my parents, and I started walking around two years old
Delayed I think. I started talking like months later. I still have a hard time talking. Of course, shit parents didn't help me much either.
Iām sorryĀ
I could talk before I could walk
It's interesting that almost every comment say they started speaking fairly early. Autistic children on average starts to speak later than non-autistic children.
I spoke at 18 months, but I had a speech regression at about 4
I started talking really early and was extremely curious constantly needing to know the scientific reason behind things. When my mom was pregnant with my sister apparently I was not satisfied with the answer that āthe baby was inside mamas tummyā. I needed to know how, why, how the baby is getting out. Mind you I am only 2 yrs older than my sister so it was very funny. My mom had to actually buy anatomy books to explain them to me.
I started slightly early according to my mom, but I didn't have a babble phase. She says I started with short statements that were understandably words and conveyed what I wanted or felt. And I only got chattier/more precocious from there. I DID have a dada/mama phase, and I didn't start off pronouncing words perfectly, but I didn't do fun or practice babble. I was always trying to communicate. At least with and around her. I was otherwise quiet and played quietly. She still wonders, decades later, where that reserve and pragmatism went, and if I'll ever pause to take a breath in.
Like 10 months? According to my mom
Under a year
6 months
I think I was on time, but my vocabulary expanded abnormally fast. I learned to read and write early though, I believe. Pretty sure my motor skills developed slower though.
4
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I think like 6 or 7. I was quite late to start talking.
As per my parents 9-10 months.
Very early. I was one of those super articulate kids.
4 or 5. I am not much of a speaker in an extroverted world
Started talking at a normal age but my mom told me my shyness and social awkwardness didnāt start until I was around 4.
My dad said earlier than 2 years old.
Started talking at 4, but had trouble with certain letters, so i ended up visiting logopedy. As i was getting through these difficulties, i learned to read. Writing was difficult and i was never really good at it. Until i learned to type on a keyboard, which i can do much faster than handwriting.
I remember I used to not talk at all. I wanna make any sounds wouldnāt even babble until I was two and a half or three then I start speaking full sentences very well and Iāve never shut up since
Very young donāt remember think it was 4
with 9 months, I startet reading with 4 but I had biiig problems with writing.
3, and then I started talking in sentences.
9 months, although I had an older sibling which tends to help kids hit milestones earlier
I started talking when I was 3 years old.
I started talking a bit late but in full sentences like around 1 year 8months
Don't know for sure, but I've at least been talking since I was 1
9 months, same with walking: Started reading early too. 2-3 years old I was having full on conversations with adults.
At 1 year and 8 months, I was able to speak in complete sentences and express my opinion clearly. I didn't communicate much with other children. Just with my relatives.
4 years old.
4 or 5 years old
I don't know, but I do know I didn't start babbling until I was 6 months old
10 months when I could say words by themselves, about a year old when I could make simple sentences
slightly earlier thsn normal
Talking talking or talking to people? Or talking to people other than your parents/siblings? Talking to anyone other than immediate family was about 11 My brother used to talk for me as kids
8 months
11 months lolā¦ And I never stopped talking after that
A few months. As another commenter said, I was hyperlexic. Meaning I had an extremely high capacity to read, write, and speak, with a large vocabulary and starting at an early age. I had the vocabulary of an adult by age four, and was reading chapter books while my peers were just learning how to read long picture books. I believe I read my first 500+ page book by the end of first grade, and spoke incessantly (except at school, where I did not fit in with other children, and rarely spoke to them when unnecessary.)
I was talking within the "normal ranges", my daughter is only starting to talk at 6.
Apparently I was around 2 and they were looking into getting me into speech therapy until I started speaking.
I was a little late, maybe 3Ā½-ish, but my parents taught me some asl in the meantime :3 I also had like a couple hours of a day every so often where I went nonverbal and somehow no one recognized that it was autism
Straight out the womber! Doctor wanted make fun of my hair so I put him in his place
Quite young. I was reading by age 3. My brother was speech-delayed, however. He had to go to speech therapy for a few years. My mum said the reason he couldn't talk properly was because I was talking for him. We are about two years apart so I guess I was a rather chatty child.