Autism and Hyper talking

[Bpeep]

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My child is in the waiting list for asd diagnosis, he will be four in few months. Most of the asd signs he showed are gone except toewalking and lining up toys. His speech has developed massively, he can now express himself through words very well, talking in 3 to 8 word sentences. Answers simple questions. I can see he has become hyper talkative, won't say chatty. Somewhere I feel he would get Asperger's/hfa diagonises. The good thing is he keeps commenting on things around him, repeatedly asking us questions, same question though. No How and When questions so far and no w
Why(curiosity type questions), will use why like "why are you standing here"
Can anyone relate this behaviour, autism and hyper talking, from your experience. What were your challenges and how did you deal with them. How were they as a child and how are they now?
Thank you.

*Worried moms of toddlers who are not speaking by two years.
This was the same child who did not say any words till 26 months. His speech came up slowly and gradually, now he is hyper verbal.

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Anyone with similar experience? I understand each child on the spectrum is different. Is hyper talking and asd unusual or rare?

What do you mean by ‘hyper talking’? It sounds like he’s just talking.

My ds has always been very verbal, though his social communication was not at the level of his peers. It still isn’t but is improving all the time. When he was younger he had a lot of echolalia and delayed echolalia alongside his spontaneous speech but that reduced massively over time. He also didn’t ask a direct question until he was nearly four, he would do it in a roundabout way. He started with ‘what is that’ and then gradually all the other W words came, why being the last.

@Bpeep are you saying that you're worried that he won't get a diagnosis because his language has come on? Or are you more wondering what the future will look like for your child based on their current age and level of speech? What exactly does "hyper talking" mean to you?

Autism symptoms do change a lot as they get older, some things become easier and some things become harder, but I think it's really hard to predict what will happen with any child.

I'm struggling to understand what behaviour you're asking us to relate to, I suppose. By "hyper talking" do you just mean he is repeating the same question over and over? Does he react to your answers?

My memory (and it might be a bit selective) is that our autistic child didn't do abstract words like how/why and he never had a "why" phase. He learned to speak but he didn't frame questions about the world around him. He has a cousin who did lots of toe walking but he was also much more engaged in the world around him, full of imaginary friends, drawing. They both lined up toys but that's just a detail. If you watched them both for a whole day, his cousin's play was much richer and more varied (to my NT eyes) than DS's and more child led. DS would push things into my hand and wait for me to do stuff with them, then copy. I'm not sure if that helps.

When my ds started talking a lot I think it could be described as hyper. I remember I found it exhausting. He would repeat the same thing over and over again and he also wanted me to repeat my answer over and over again. That was maybe when he was 4 years old. He is 12 now and he talks when he wants to. It depends how relaxed he is.

He does not ask questions very often. That is something we really need to work on.

He has never pointed and can't follow someone else's pointing. That has not changed.