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Echolalia

Lau

Hello all,

My son is constantly repeating questions such as

Is it Saturday

Is it Christmas 

Where’s Kyle (a friend from school) 

He will repeat these questions all throughout the day. So many times that I loose count. 

If I say today is Thursday he will do a short scream and say no it’s Saturday. Until I agree with him. 

He will do the same with the Christmas question. Short scream and say it’s Christmas. He excepted on 26th that it was Boxing Day. 

He will except the answer regarding Kyle. I say Kyles at home in his own house.

How would you answer these questions? as he is getting frustrated with me and others who don’t answer with the answer he wants. 

Would I just agree yes it Saturday? Sounds a bit silly now that I’ve written it out but I’m just curious what others would say?

Is what he doing echolalia? 

Thanks 

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  • 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.)

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  • 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.)

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