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Old Nov 03, 2014, 12:39 AM
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I sometimes repeat sentences other people say but deliberately change the order of the words in the sentence. I did it just now before writing this. My boyfriend said "don't make fun of me" and I straight away said "make of fun me don't". It mostly happens around people I'm relatively comfortable with and I'm not sure why I do it but I like it.

What do you think? Is it some kind of echolalia?
Yes. Its exactly echolalia, and is quite common in all along the autistic spectrum.

When you do it with vocalizations that you yourself have made its called palilalia.