How old were you when you first spoke?

[Mr Allen]

Me? As I recall I was just turned 3 (circa mid April 1979) I was a late talker.

And then for a few years I had to have speech therapy as I spoke with a lisp, couldn't pronounce my S's.

How about you lot?

 

[Graphin]

I think it was when I was 4, not even properly at that and the german had some russian mixed in.

 

[Pats]

6 or 7 - whatever age I would have been in second grade. My family says before that I just made sounds like "uh uh uh", but I remember thinking I was saying the words. Speech therapy to learn how to talk. I still mostly didn't like to talk.

 

[Progster]

I don't know exactly. I'm told that I didn't have a speech delay, but had advanced vocabulary for my age and learned to read very early.

 

[Judge]

Didn't speak in full sentences until around four years of age.

I guess I just didn't have anything to say until then.

 

[Stardust Parade]

Probably around 1-2 years of age.

 

[tducey]

Not sure. I do know I went to see a speech pathologist at age 8 but was speaking before that.

 

[GrownupGirl]

I was probably around the same age most kids are when they start to speak. In fact, I developed pretty normally as a baby.

 

[Ezra]

I started saying single syllable words when I was 8.

 

[NothingToSeeHere]

First word at 9 months, first sentence at 13 months.

 

[SusanLR]

I don't know exactly, except my Mom always said I spoke earlier than most kids she had seen.
Less than a year old probably. First word was Kitty.
Had some difficulty with pronouncing certain letters and words though.
My Grandmother had me scared to death I remember, because she kept telling my parents I was
tongue tied and would need to have the underside of my tongue clipped!
Thankfully NO!

 

[Suzanne]

I think around 3. I have a very vague memory of being able to say a few sentances.

However, I was told that I did not learn to crawl until late, but no age was given.

My issue was not being able to explain myself. I know that I went through a phrase of feeling absolutely wretched at seeing white. I remember the panic and turning my head away from the white walls, but not being able to say anything, other than: I feel horribly sick.

Other instances had to have been me being verbal, due to the circumstances, but never being able to explain the emotion.

 

[Southern Discomfort]

4. I spoke adult words by 5 with the help of a special and language unit I went to and a speech therapist for a few years after starting mainstream school. Speaking at 4 makes me feel close to someone like Einstein despite clearly having an intellectually inferior mind. But I'm okay with that.

 

[StephF]

I really don't remember as I was a baby

 

[LearnedCoward]

Right around the time I started elementary school, I went from being nonverbal to speaking in complete sentences. So, I'm not sure if I couldn't speak or if I just didn't speak.

I could read at 3 years old and knew my multiplication tables up to 12x12 by 4.

 

[Mr Allen]

I spoke full swear words by the age of about 9 or 10

 

[disconnected]

I’m not sure.

 

[Khendra]

My parents insist I spoke by the age of two months. I find this hard to believe, but I did develop language abilities early, nonetheless. This is why I was very opposed to the clinical merging of classic autism with Aspergers. They are not the exact same thing, and even EEG studies in 2013 confirmed this.

 

[Myway]

When I spoke for the first time, it was when I was 4 or 5. I remember starting kindergarten and not talking a lot. My communication was also terrible. So I went to homeschooling and went back to school for HS.

 

[Siobhan]

I started talking on schedule, then went almost silent from 12-15 months, then skipped to complex sentences with at least one dependent claise.