in my case i have a very strong internal echolalia, as in i get stuck with a phrase or a specific thought, song, word, ecc... which i find very annoying, though I dont know about external echolalia, I never noticed

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[–] 33 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Snippets of songs. They go round and around in my head.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Constant loop. Usually a song I like and then it gets ruined by the repetition. Thanks brain.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Same. I often wake up with random songs going through my head in the middle of the night. Sometimes it’s not the same one that was looping when I went to sleep.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Oh. I thought this was just me. I tend to repeat phrases or meaningless collections of syllables in my head, but I also got warrant’s cherry pie stuck in my head for several months once , which was awful

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    If I'm not listening to music or hyperfocusing really hard there's a constant looping snippet of some random song playing almost all the time, usually just a few seconds long. Changing it requires to listen to something else. I don't really mind it (as long as the song doesn't suck!), seems like my brain just needs a constant rhythm throughout the day. I always thought that it's normal for everyone until I learned about neuro divergence a year ago.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Bad enough that I cannot handle music with lyrics, with a few exceptions. Genres like post-rock are all I listen to.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    instrumental music is so good. Bands like Chon (math rock/math metal) or casiopea (80s j-fusion) are among my favorites. If you like post-rock theres an italian band called massimo volume (means maximum volume) though they have lyrics so i don't know if you'd like ir

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    It basically does not stop

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Eenie-meanie-cippolini-oom-pop-pop-a-leaney-hotchie-kotchi-Liberace-I-love-you.

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    Non-stop, unless I'm listening to, or singing something. If something gets stuck, I have to listen to that stick specifically and read the lyrics while the song is playing... Then it goes away

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It used to be awful, I'd end up repeating the last thing I said in my head over and over 'til there was something else I needed to process verbally.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I'd say moderate. I keep repeating song lyrics and quotes.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I've got about 10 seconds of an incubus song I don't even know the name of circling in my head since I woke up. I can't remember the last time I actually heard it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I get this pretty bad from time to time. Usually, I'm spelling a word over and over again. Sometimes, the chorus of a song.

    When I consciously recognize I'm doing it, I can usually force myself to switch from one word to another, and after three or four times, I lose interest in it.

    Worst is waking up in the middle of the night doing it. I try to avoid it by keeping video playing overnight.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    It depends. Sometimes it hits hard and others I can just ignore it. My daughter and I do like to try to get songs stuck in each other's heads though, so we'll constantly quote lyrics to each other and try to pass them off as regular conversation

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I call them my word/phrase/song of the day. Same as you, internal is strong AF, but unsure about external.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I had "dragon cum" stuck in my head for years (I think I picked it up from bad dragon) and now "gay homosexual women" has been stuck in my head for a few months now.

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