Mimicking: Echolalia

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I have seen several people mention mimicking. It is a large part of what I go

through too. Much more when I was a young child and it got me in a ton of

trouble with my (violent) parents.

I have become a lay-researcher just because for years no one else has been doing

it and I think some of our issues lie in the fact that our neural impulses are

flying around in our brains (that's the scientific terminology - grin) and

activating " wrong " parts. Kind of like synaesthesia does. Or an autistic brain

which has too many neurons overall.

Our similarities are striking: not just the age of onset and trigger sounds

coming from anything repetitive (that normals consider just background noise)

but the emotions-as-reflexes from stimulus-response. We feel

rage/anger/panic/fear/(some feel arousal) which indicates to me that the

primitive limbic brain is being activated. We also fee kinda' assaulted/put

upon/everyone is rude/a pig/a slob. That indicates right temporal lobe

activation. So the mimicking is a way for me to " get back " at the piggish

offender. Footsteps, teeth sucking, throat clearing, sighing, I can do 'em all

and I don't care. I used to do it with a vengeance, now I just do it to get it

done because the rage won't leave me until I " do it back " .

I may be all wrong here. But it's where I am right now.

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adah, i ve been doing the same thing since childhood too... it pisses alot of people off.. you may be on to something there....makes sense

Subject: Mimicking: EcholaliaTo: Soundsensitivity Date: Saturday, May 19, 2012, 6:19 PM

I have seen several people mention mimicking. It is a large part of what I go through too. Much more when I was a young child and it got me in a ton of trouble with my (violent) parents.I have become a lay-researcher just because for years no one else has been doing it and I think some of our issues lie in the fact that our neural impulses are flying around in our brains (that's the scientific terminology - grin) and activating "wrong" parts. Kind of like synaesthesia does. Or an autistic brain which has too many neurons overall.Our similarities are striking: not just the age of onset and trigger sounds coming from anything repetitive (that normals consider just background noise) but the emotions-as-reflexes from stimulus-response. We feel rage/anger/panic/fear/(some feel arousal) which indicates to me that the primitive limbic brain is being activated. We also fee kinda' assaulted/put upon/everyone is rude/a pig/a slob. That indicates right

temporal lobe activation. So the mimicking is a way for me to "get back" at the piggish offender. Footsteps, teeth sucking, throat clearing, sighing, I can do 'em all and I don't care. I used to do it with a vengeance, now I just do it to get it done because the rage won't leave me until I "do it back". I may be all wrong here. But it's where I am right now.