{"id":2909,"date":"2013-07-04T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njcts.org\/teens4ts\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2013-07-04T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T17:00:50","slug":"a-look-back-at-childhood-echolalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njcts.org\/teens4ts\/a-look-back-at-childhood-echolalia\/","title":{"rendered":"A look back at childhood echolalia"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hey everyone. So I just got some old home videos converted into DVDs so that I could watch them. Click here<\/strong><\/a> to view part of one of the home videos that my mom filmed when I was around 4 years old. The video starts at around 4 seconds.<\/p>\n This is a video of my echolalia as a kid. In this video, I started telling my mom to look at something in the book was looking at and then just kept repeating the word “look” over and over again, which is a kind of vocal tic called echolalia where you repeat a word or phrase that either you have said or that another person has said.<\/p>\n As I’ve said before, it always amazes me to see a little 3- or 4-year-old me ticcing! It also amazes me looking back on these videos that my parents really thought I just had bad habits that they needed to force me to break and never took me to a doctor or psychologist as a kid.<\/p>\n I kept ticcing throughout my childhood though and still of course tic today a lot, regardless of my parents telling me to stop ticcing. Telling a child to stop ticcing does not help! It only makes things worse for the child! Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disorder and cannot be stopped by pure will.<\/p>\n I know my mom recognized I was doing something out of the ordinary because once she realizes what I am doing she quickly turns off the camera and the video switches to a video of my brother as a baby.<\/p>\n I had echolalia throughout my childhood where I would repeat my own words and the words or phrases of others and still have it today, although it doesn’t happen as frequently now as it used to when I was younger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey everyone. So I just got some old home videos converted into DVDs so that I could watch them. Click here to view part of one of the home videos that my mom filmed when I was around 4 years… Continue Reading