Ds echoes my voice when I answer him

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I have noticed this a lot lately ds will call and say something like how are you and I’ll say fine thank you or something and he’ll echo back to me fine thank you in a voice meant to sound like me.
I find this quite intimidating, is it meant to be?
It’s quite difficult to explain and the rest of the call may be ok but I do notice he echoes answers to questions back in a quiet inferior voice which I find really strange.
I don’t mean mimicking like a child might as he’s an adult and it’s more subtle like just repeating my answer quietly in my voice which makes me feel like it was a silly answer or something and I’m not sure how to react or if it’s meant to mock me.

How old is he?
It sounds like echolalia

Have you tried asking him why he does that? It may be a strange habit or something he's doing without realising.

He’s 24

Is he autistic?

Hey now come on, not all us autistics do this.

OP he sounds weird and immature, but I wouldn’t necessarily say this is threatening. He is taking the piss though, which I wouldn’t like

ask him why he’s doing it rather than posting on here

I think it just reminds me of when I met my ex’s dad who really didn’t like me and he had a habit of asking me questions and repeating what I replied and I found it quite intimidating especially knowing he didn’t like me and was deliberately trying to belittle me but I’m not sure ds is doing it to be nasty or maybe it makes him feel superior. He is autistic but he hasn’t always done this and I’m sure it’s deliberate.

I’m not going to ask him, he doesn’t do confrontations so he’d deny it or say he didn’t notice.

Is it something that he does on person, or just on the phone?

If you can’t be honest and open with him it’s probably not a good relationship

Echolalia - Google it.

Quite common in autistic people.

When he does it you could repeat the last word he said over and over slowly fading it like an actual echo.
He will either have to acknowledge he is doing something mean then, as he will become annoyed because it takes all the power away from what he is doing and makes him the butt of the humour.
Or
He will not have realised he is doing it and this would be a gentle nudge to show how often he does it and make it a point open to discussion.

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Is he extra stressed? DC's echolalia is worse when stressed.

You're going to have to insist to him he's doing it, and tell him the next time he does it you're putting the phone down. Tell him you don't let people treat you badly.

That’s very interesting about echolalia! A very good friend of mine will echo the ends of people’s sentencing - definitely involuntarily and not meant unkindly.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if said friend has ASD - huge numbers of the people whose company I most enjoy seem to have ASD or ADHD - so this makes a lot of sense.

If your DS is voluntarily calling you and then asking how you are I don’t think it can be malicious or undermining.

I think it’s probably a habit and he may not even realise he is doing it.

Genuinely not taking the piss,could it be a problem with his phone?And it actually is your voice echoing?

Not all of those on the spectrum do this but some of them most definitely do.

No it’s not that all autistic people do this but echolalia is something found more in the autistic community and it’s nothing to do with piss taking or being rude

He’s not diagnosed with echolocation

Also auditory processing, a large percentage of people have trouble understanding words are you pronouncing properly? Is it generally when you call upstairs or all the time? Admittedly if it's a new thing he could just be annoying...

It's a trait of autism is with many other things

It could also be the sign of something else I'm not sure why you are being so defensive?

Just because you're not currently diagnosed with something doesn't mean you don't have it. Echolalia isn't a diagnosis anyway.

Echolalia* is very much a diagnosed condition. No idea where you got the info it wasn’t from.

Echolalia is a symptom, not a diagnosis.

you can still very much be diagnosed with it though, which may be helpful for OP’s partner if he wishes to access support