Echolalia

From an autistic point of view Time can be a matter of The Moment. There’s Chronos and then Kairos. 

the Time between Christmas break and society resuming as normal is often talked of as the Holiday or Christmas period. The days perform like an ongoing Saturday. It might  be helpful to envision the Metaphorical understanding of a day of the week to possibly help connect to how he’s experiencing days. 

this would be why he accepts one element and not another. 

but maybe help him create a new way to feel heard.  We resort to yelling when we feel unheard. The overwhelming feeling of not being understood is isolating at worst.  Walk with him through his understanding of a thing and perhaps it may ease his frustration. 

https://youtu.be/ome-95iHtB0

This video shows how echolalia can be used a form of communication. 

To me, it sounds luke your son is feeling confused and out of sorts because he's not in school (something that usually happens on a Saturday) and is missing playing with his friend.  It might be good to set them up with a play date.

Ah okay, with context this makes more sense and is easier to draw a more accurate conclusion. I hope that didn't come over as dismissive as I also wanted to help allay some worry as there is often multiple things that could be happening either instead or concurrently. And I didn't want to just say yes without also giving other viable explanaitions to explore and asking a few more questions.

I do think if it is this less common form of echolalia it could be driven by a comfort need, as equally for fun as well as calm in small kids, and the questions may not be a genuine enquiry but a round-about way of expressing some emotion, need, or want.

Mine used to do something in a similar vein (which was relating specifically to questions) and that was rather than ask "can I have a ______? / Can I go/do/play with _____?" he would say "That looks tasty." or "That looks fun" quite a few times in a row until we realised he wasn't just making an observation but was dropping hints that he wanted us to give him permission, it took him a while to get out of it we had to remind him it was okay to ask for things (I think he developed some anxiety at some point which had triggered it to start with). But it is difficult to say whether or not that could have been echolalic, as it was many years ago now so the memory is somewhat blurry.

Thank you for the link I will take a look 

I looked it up, it says in dictionary 

1. repetition of speech by a child learning to talk. 

2. Meaningless repetition of words just spoken by another person. 

I did think it describes what he is doing to an extent.

I’m not sure if he’s looking for his repeated questions to be answered by anyone. Maybe he’s repeatedly saying it as it is echolalia and Possibly when I answer that’s why he’s doing a short scream. 

I wanted to know if I was approaching it in a correct way.

Yes he was diagnosed at 3 years of age and he turned 5 at the beginning of December. 

He is in primary one in an ASN school.

If it is an Autism thing then it MAYBE echolalia but it is not a common form of it.
Here is a resource that I hope is of some help. https://www.playgroupnsw.org.au/ASD-play/playing-with-children-with-ASD/Excessive-questioning

Thanks Ben :) 

Nah sounds like he just really wants it to be a non-school day and xmas because kids love those things. He also probably wants to play with his friend and is fustrated he can't only do the fun stuff in life. Mine is the same, would eat cake for breakfast and nothing but sweets all day if you let him... and have no teeth in his head by 18. This is just a kid needs to learn to manage reality disapointment with resilience and optimism thing.

Echolalia is something else entirely, in fact you could have looked it up and realised that this doesn't fit the typical expression of echolalia with no nead to consult us.

How old is your son anyway (the one you are talking about in this post as I read you have 2) ? Sounds like he has some anger but depending on his age that kind of emotional irregulation could just be very typical and not even an autism thing.

(I removed a line as I found the answer in your profile bio, also accidentally prematurely posted this when I went to look for the link, I have since added the end of this reply and the link in a reply below instead.)

Lau. 

I once worked with a man I presume had echolalia. I don't know if it presents in the same way with others, but my colleague frequently  repeated the last three or four words of whatever I had just said to him. It felt as if he was looking for confirmation that he had heard me correctly, but he always had; he was not hard of hearing.  Unlike your son, he only repeated things once.

It was a bit annoying at first but then I just got used to it; he was a nice guy to work with.

Ben