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W.O.F. -> RE: Does anyone's child repeat their own words? (5/31/2008 7:13:58 AM)
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repeating one's words to oneself and constantly repeating oneself are two very VERY different things.
I have a friend whose son DOES have asperger's...he is 9 days older than my son and they played together weekly from the time they were about 1 year old...but he did repeat himself. Not once or twice, but constantly the same words....for hours on end....until you distracted him to say something else.
The big key is...does he connect with other people well? Can he answer "why" questions? (even if the answer is silly.....)
does he fixate on one topic for the day and only ask one or two questions about it all day long?
If he did have asperger's....you would be seeing OTHER signs not just one.
As with anything, symptoms in and of themselves do NOT a syndrome make.....it requires a combination of things and at the EXTREME level to even make it a possibility.
A fever alone does not mean you have Ebola.
Talking to yourself on occasion (or even daily) does not mean you are schizophrenic.
Vomiting alone does not mean you have the gastroenteritis.
What you are describing does not actually fit the description of Palilalia:
Palilalia is the repetition or echoing of one's own spoken words, and may sound like stuttering. It is a complex tic, like echolalia and coprolalia. All can be symptoms of Tourette syndrome,Asperger syndrome,or autism.
Palilalia comes from the Greek πάλιν (pálin) meaning "again"[6] and λαλιά (laliá) meaning "babbling, meaningless talk"[7] (from the verb λαλείν (laleín) meaning "to talk").
Another definition puts it this way:
palilalia n. A speech abnormality symptomatic of some forms of tic disorder and other mental disorders, characterized by repetition of words or speech fragments with a characteristic acceleration during each cluster of repeated speech.[From Greek palin back or again + lalia speech]
© A Dictionary of Psychology 2001, originally published by Oxford University Press 2001.
Someone who actually has palilalia does not repeat to themselves...it is more like I ask you
"how are you" and you say "okay, okay okay"...generally faster each time.
again...if you are truly concerned about it...get him evaluated....
And contrary to popular belief.....kids with aspergers are not retarded or unintelligent...in fact the opposite is generally more true. They are usually off the charts in intelligence, and most live their lives without any complications from the syndrome.
In fact, many researchers feel that both Newton and Einstein probably did have asperger's......and that many of our "super-intelligent' scientist may have "suffered" from this syndrome.
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