echolalia

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On a recent trip away with the Asperger society, my echolalia was picked up on.

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  1. noun Psychiatry The immediate and involuntary repetition of words or phrases just spoken by others, often a symptom of autism or some types of schizophrenia.
  2. noun An infant's repetition of the sounds made by others, a normal occurrence in childhood development.

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  • She had what Irv­ing called "echolalia": she frequently just repeated the last thing she heard. —  Sock
  • Heritable variation: the Lally is a stupid individual ape with a severe case of echolalia, most useful socially for performing menial tasks. —  Planet Atheism
  • In any case, the first of the two primary issues I had with the film -- and the blame for both falls squarely with writer Eric Roth -- has been cited in practically every review I've thus far read, so it's pointless to continue the critical echolalia. —  Bright Lights After Dark
  • As Bud got older and his echolalia became more sophisticated, he began mitigating scripts in his writing, swapping out details from the scripts with details from his life, so that the writing appeared to be original, but really wasn't. —  Autism Hub
  • People with autism will often repeat words or phrases they hear - an event called echolalia. —  Health News from Medical News Today
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  1. echo + Greek laliā, talk (from lalos, talkative).

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἠχώ, an echo, + λαλιά, babbling, from λαλεῑν, babble.
 

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/ɛkəˈleɪliə/
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