Autism and speech-link to apraxia

Thanks for the reply.

When you say ‘selective’ do you mean you physically couldn’t speak to certain people?

I've only got my mother's word to go on.  But I doubt it would have been because I physically couldn't.

She says that I learned to speak by staring at people's mouths and silently copying over and over.  Every word, when it finally came, was then perfect at it's first utterance and sounded 'grown up'; that I never spoke unless I had something to say and didn't ever chat for the sake of it.  Most kids do.  Also, I that I did just withdraw quite a bit.

I was bullied at school for sounding "posh", even though I am very much a working class lass.  I never had the strong accent of other village children or my migrant Geordie parents.  In fact, my speech can't be placed anywhere socially or geographically.  And knowing what I know about language, that is odd.  Only recently did I come across a blog by a lad with ASD explaining the phenomena in relation to his own speech, which he says comes from learning by copying more from the TV and such than anything else - WOW! OK.  I'll keep and open mind.

But as to couldn't/wouldn't - dunno!  I know, there are circumstances when I'm upset and when asked a question, I can't answer straight away - too much going on in the grey matter, I suppose.  Maybe I was in my own world, maybe I just didn't like the doctor or something about the surgery, maybe I just didn't want to 'perform', who knows?  I wasn't shy, really... I wish I could remember.

I've only got my mother's word to go on.  But I doubt it would have been because I physically couldn't.

She says that I learned to speak by staring at people's mouths and silently copying over and over.  Every word, when it finally came, was then perfect at it's first utterance and sounded 'grown up'; that I never spoke unless I had something to say and didn't ever chat for the sake of it.  Most kids do.  Also, I that I did just withdraw quite a bit.

I was bullied at school for sounding "posh", even though I am very much a working class lass.  I never had the strong accent of other village children or my migrant Geordie parents.  In fact, my speech can't be placed anywhere socially or geographically.  And knowing what I know about language, that is odd.  Only recently did I come across a blog by a lad with ASD explaining the phenomena in relation to his own speech, which he says comes from learning by copying more from the TV and such than anything else - WOW! OK.  I'll keep and open mind.

But as to couldn't/wouldn't - dunno!  I know, there are circumstances when I'm upset and when asked a question, I can't answer straight away - too much going on in the grey matter, I suppose.  Maybe I was in my own world, maybe I just didn't like the doctor or something about the surgery, maybe I just didn't want to 'perform', who knows?  I wasn't shy, really... I wish I could remember.