Is delayed echolalia a giveaway sign of autism?

[Mark Smith]

I haven’t been formally diagnosed with autism, but behavior that my parents always talk about that I had as a toddler is how I would repeat things. For example, they said that I would always repeat the dialogue to several commercials—such as the Splenda television commercials as well as several TV openings. I even realized that I still do this behavior up until today. For example, whenever I watch YouTube or Netflix, I find myself repeatedly rewinding the video(usually about 4-5 times) to a specific line of dialogue that I liked. And speaking of YouTube, my “liked” videos playlist is pretty much made up of videos that had lines of dialogue that I like to go back to and hear again and repeat in my head in random times.

Is this a giveaway sign of autism?

 

[Mattymatt]

It's really hard to say if this could be a sign of Autism. It could just simply have been your method of learning when you were a toddler. It could have been your way of sounding out words and practicing their usage. Usually Autism has a range of signs and cannot be pinned down to one or two. It's usually a pattern (or spectrum) of behaviors.

 

[Progster]

It can be, but autism is never one symptom alone, it is a cluster of different symptoms or traits.