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Random question: does it still count as echolalia if one repeats themselves multiple times? I find that, especially when upset, I'll repeat myself over and over and over...
Anonymous
I don’t think so. Echolalia seems to be more about echoing other people rather than just echoing yourself. But echolalia has never really been much of a symptom of mine, so I’m not as knowledgeable about it as some other autistics.
I will say that I can and do get into states where I do the same thing, particularly states of high stress or other emotional turmoil. I’m not exactly sure what causes the impulse, but I wouldn’t be surprised if other autistics experience it too.
If a child copies someone it can be annoying, but they normally stop when they see it's annoying. However an adult copping someone exactly isn't normal, I don't care if they're 'late' it's not normal and I would find it ridiculously annoying
Anonymous
Well, maybe you need to grow the fuck up then, you ableist asshole. You copy people too; you just don’t realize it.
so basically the idea of 'special interest' is a way of pathologicising (spellcheck says this isn't a word but you can too make a verb out of pathological) normal human behaviour and interest because the interest andor the person who has it is "different"?
Anonymous
For clarification, this is in regards to this post.
That's exactly it, and it’s done with a lot of behaviors you see in every child on the planet, regardless of whether they’re autistic or not. All children learn by mimicry (echolalia), for example, but autistic children may start this behavior much later than allistic children. Even if it goes away (whether it does or not is dependent upon the individual and circumstances) it’s still looked at as a symptom and as something “abnormal” when all it really is, is just a bit late.
(Incidentally, even if echolalia doesn’t go away in an autistic person, this isn’t anywhere near as strange as “experts” want to make it out to be, because it doesn’t technically go away fully in allistic people either. Although most of them never realize, they will continue to echo people who are around them constantly, picking up on said people’s mannerisms and speech patterns, throughout their entire lives. They’ll even do it at times with people they’ve just met: for example, it’s a perfectly normal (and instinctual) thing for someone to mimic the sitting position of someone they’re talking to if they’re interested in that person. Pfft to you, “experts.”)
So yeah, us being “different” makes people pathologize our behavior regardless of how actually normal it in truth is. I explained it to my husband like this:
If an allistic child shows a keen interest in serial killers, people will assume they have a future as a profiler for the FBI.
If an autistic child shows a keen interest in serial killers, people will assume they have a future as a serial killer.
That’s just utter bullshit, but it doesn’t stop people from treating us like it’s true.
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