echolalic swearing | Autism PDD

Thanks for all the stories. I feel much better about it all from your lighthearted, been-there responses. I guess it happens to us all.

You can bet your you-know-what, we'll be a lot more careful of what we say from now on in this house [QUOTE=IBGECKO]This is a very funny thread. And do you all realize that what we are
experiencing here is NT behavior? ALL kids do this! [/QUOTE]

this is so true! i remember when my niece was 2, she came waddling into the kitchen with a pacifier in her mouth, looked at me and said "B*TCH!" up until that point, i thought i was her favorite aunt! or when she used to "talk" to people on a toy cell phone. one day she picked it up and started yelling "F***ING A!" into the phone! it was definitely something she picked up from her mother, who had a cell phone practically glued to her ear at the time.

and then the time when my nephew was 4, he was sitting at my table coloring a picture, and started saying "a**hole, a**hole, a**hole."
OMG! Now I don't feel so bad! LOL My cute sweet angelic BRAT daughter says dammit. She heard me say it and even though I apologized and tried to let her know that it was an ugly word, it still slips from her every now and then. The funny part is she uses it CORRECTLY! She will say such things as, "I broke the damn doll house." Or, "I closed the damn door." And when Julian gets mad he yells "STUPID STUPID STUPID!!" and screams. I sometimes wish he would just say dammit! I think I hate stupid much worse...LOL

My DS has a passion for "shutup". Which he repeated and used frequently for awhile, even after the "that is not a nice word speech".

Now when he says it and knows I heard it, he quickly jumps ups and says "smile mommy".

My son needed lots of therapy to use new words but of course when I let out a s*** in traffic one day of course he learnt that straight away. So I started using the term "You turkey". Well he picked that up as well. A few months later as his language improved he started calling people turkey. I explained we couldn't do that as it was a naughty word.

Later that day he was walking around the house saying "Chicken, chicken, chicken".

I asked him what he was doing, he said "Saying naughty words".

Unfortunately he has learnt lots of lovely words at school now so we have them repeated around the house.

My dd just started saying "goddammit" as part of her echolalia. It started Sat. when she was just playing with toys and doing her basic recitating/rambling when all of a sudden she says "goddammit" and then keeps going on with her ramblings. At the time it was pretty funny but made us wonder WHERE she heard that (no doubt one of us!) but we just ignored. Well today she did it again, only she said it two or three times in a row. Again, I ignored it and of course it's not so funny now. I wonder if this is a case of delayed echolalia (I don't think we've used that word lately, well maybe my DH while driving

Tammy

Lol, I don't know if your daughter would respond the same way, but this also happened with my son, very unfortunately with a much worse word - the big F, that he also heard my husband say one day in traffic. (We live in a no-cursing household now :) So my son said it one day, when I was braking a little harder than usual in the car, and I could have died. I told him, "That's not a nice word. I don't want you to say that." He said it here and there for probably a month or two, thankfully not where anyone else heard it, and I said the same thing to him every time with a very serious look on my face, while not making too big a deal as to give him a bunch of attention for it. He eventually stopped, thank goodness, and I haven't heard it since.

This also worked with a chunk of dialogue he liked to recite from Bugs Life, that starts with, "Do I look stupid to you?" So after a few times of him going up to people and saying that, I told him that stupid wasn't a nice word...same thing. And after enough times of saying that, he also eventually stopped.

Now I don't know if he stopped because I was telling him those things, or because he just picked up newer favorites to repeat, but eventually he did stop.

Good luck!

Rachel

last year, i went to pick up my daughter from school and her teacher came up to me and told me that my daughter had been teaching the other students a new phrase. of course i got excited and was like "oooh! what did she say?!" the teacher looked at me and said "f*** you." i swear, my heart dropped. i was speechless. she told me that my daughter had been prancing around the classroom all day repeating that phrase. i felt horrible! and then i got confused because the "f" word is something that is NOT said in our house!!! then i remembered that a few months prior, my brother and his girlfriend were living with me and were having a lot of problems in their relationship, so that phrase was thrown around between the two of them a lot. i had told them to not talk like that when little ears are around, but during a passionate argument they didnt seem to care who was in earshot. it was "f*** you!" and "f*** this!" and "f*** that!"

lucky for me, my daughter only said that phrase for a few days. our in-home provider claims that she's heard other nasty words come out of my daughter's mouth, but i just dont think she understands my child's verbalizing very well. i have never heard anything else bad. we have all changed our "angry" phrases since my daughter is picking up on more words. my mom and i have replaced "oh sh**" with "oh man!" and tonight when i put my daughter to bed, i was listening to her babble through the baby monitor and she kept yelling "OH MAN! OH MAN! OH MAN!" it was hilarious!

OMG I am laughing. We had the same thing happen here. My Daughter in law says a "certain phrase" when someone cuts her off, or she has to break fast and low and behold my grandson started saying it too. But here is the kick. She never knew he was saying it. He would say it with my son in a similar situation. He is more easy going and I guess my grandson thought it needed saying when he hit the breaks. He wasnt saying it with my daughter in law because she said it so he didnt need too. Of course no one encouraged him to continue but I am not the only one that was amused that he filled in for his mother when she wasnt there to add those "words". Now we ALL know how careful we have to be with our words around him

the big F, that he also heard my husband say one day in traffic. (We live in a no-cursing household now :) So my son said it one day, when I was braking a little harder than usual in the car, and I could have died. I told him, "That's not a nice word. I don't want you to say that."

awagner38580.9081365741This is a very funny thread. And do you all realize that what we are
experiencing here is NT behavior? ALL kids do this! The difference is
that once they know better, our kids have more difficulty controlling their
impulse to use a scripted swear phrase. My DS (almost 11) knows he
shouldn't swear, and we try to be good around him. One of his favorite
shows is "Futurama" and anyone who has ever seen it knows that Bender,
the robot can be pretty crass. This past weekend, DS was over at a
friends house. The two boys had a disagreement, and low and behold, DS
tells his friend to "bite my shiny metal ass". The friend told me about this
when I picked up DS. DS was mortified and terrified that he would be in
serious trouble. He's such a stickler for rules, that he views any violation
on his part as grounds for corporal punishment. I wasn't mad, and
explained to him that what he said was not nice, and he shouldn't use
that word or speak to his friends that way. He knows right from wrong,
but controlling those impulses is another story...

I'm with you. I was waiting for Paul in OT and when he can out the ot said, all excitedly. "He cheated today. OMG. He cheated. Othe mothers congratualted me. We were all so excited and then just cracked up at what a warped world we live.

pat

ROFLOL

Haha! Too funny ! Ds is extremely dramatic when he is saying those "forbidden" phases". His teacher recently complained how he reacts even to the smallest change with his hands on his face in a loud voice yelling "Holy Shomoly ! Not again !!"

And he attends a christian preschool.

Better than what he used to say...which was "Oh crap!"

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This thread is cracking me up. I can totally relate to the above post. I would also like to add that I was thrilled the first time I caught my oldest son lying to me.
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