Hi, thank you for taking the time to read this post. My autistic 14 year old son has very poor communication and social skills, which we are very lucky to have help with at school and home but he constantly self talks. From the moment he wakes till he goes to sleep, he doesn’t or simply can’t stop talking. His speech is completely random and unrelated to the situation, it is unrelated and very confusing to the listener. He will also demand the listening repeat what he has just said on cue and failure to do so will provoke upset on his part. We try our best to ignore this but when we (my partner and I) are on the car - for example - we will talk over us and if we ask him for a moment of quiet time he will react in a negative manner.
his constant self talk is limiting his social skills even further and I can’t see a way to stop or even limit this to a more correct socially acceptable level? Can anyone help? Fingers crossed. Thank you for listening
