Learning to talk as a child

[Acrogamnon]

For the INTPs who know from their relatives or other people, how and when you initially started talking in childhood, can you post it?

E.g. "started talking early", "started talking early but using words you made up yourself", "started talking late, but almost immediately talked well", "started talking late and had problems learning", etc.


The reason for the question is a theory (please post your answer if you know it before reading)

Spoiler

With the learning pattern typical for INTPs, a common situation will be starting to talk later than most children, but quickly grasping the language after this, possibly even having a coherent word combination as your "first word"

 

[EvilScientist Trainee]

I learned to talk before walking, at an early age.

Had a good grasp on language, not using baby talk instead of the right words.

(For the records, it's not confirmed that I'm INTP)

 

[Fukyo]

If my mother is to be believed, I uttered my first word at 6 months old.

I had keenly developed verbal abilities as a child(and I think it's still my strongest form of "intelligence"); I also had a vocabulary of my own for things which I could observe but didn't know the names of, and an affinity for foreign languages, such as english which I started learning spontaneously at kindergarten age via exposure to television.

 

[Vodhgarm]

I started talking relatively early (around 9 months old (that is to say .. I spoke my first word) And then at 11 I was speaking in sentences .. or something). I only mispronounced certain words, but only until around 2 yrs old, otherwise my diction was almost perfect (or so may parents say).

As for your theory, I doubt that personality has anything to do with this, seeing as how one doesn't have a personality (or at least not a well defined one) at such an early age.

 

[Taniwha]

I talked, but not in English. It was strange, I remember when I was three and trying to communicate with my father (INTP). I could think of the words in English but they never came out in the way how I wanted to. Everyone thought I was speaking Russian.

I didn't start communicating in English until I was four. I have no idea if Aspergers contributed to it or not. I have family home videos that my father filmed of me talking, he thought it was funny, me, well, I found it frustrating that my father wouldn't let me film.

 

[Cognisant]

My first word was fuck.

I was riding around on one of those little car things (the type you straddle like a horse and push around with your feet) when I crashed into the kitchen cupboard, exclaimed "fuck" for all to hear, and as the story goes my mother hastily explained to my horrified grandmother that I was trying to say "fire truck".

She didn't buy it Sorry Mum.

 

[Stoic Beverage]

I didn't talk until I was 4, before that I would simply point at things and say "Ug". My sister could apparently translate whatever I wanted. After she left for kindergarten, (and this is as my mom tells it,) I pointed to the door and said "Unh". My mom said "I don't know what you mean...." I then shook my head and said "I want to go outside...Please?"

After that I spoke in complete sentences.

 

[Dormouse]

I only began talking at nine months. Apparently I liked it and wouldn't shut up. I also hummed a lot, if that's relevant.

 

[Bird]

Sometimes I feel so left
out that I can't participate.


Then I think it's probably
for the best.

 

[James Black]

I started speaking rather late, I believe, and when I did speak initially, it was slurred as if with a lisp, and mostly spoken at speeds so fast I was often asked to slow down. However, this is apparently due to me having an ear infection (and as such partial deafness) at a young age... So maybe I'm not the best example.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I don't know anything about how I started talking except that my first word was "döda" (Swedish for "kill").

 

[teleforce]

my parents say my first word was "egg". that's dumb. i don't believe it.

 

[ApostateAbe]

I began to talk much later than my brothers and sisters, enough that my parents were worried that I had some sort of disability. Just my generally quiet nature, I am guessing. I don't talk unless I have something to say that someone else needs to hear.

 

[dark]

Well if you can take my fathers word for it (ESFP) I started talking at 8 months and was forming sentences at the time. He said my first time talking was a question. Figures. I think that is also why he would teach me advanced things at an early age. But because I became ill around 3ish I was blinded(right eye) and my brain was damaged slightly I think, which is why I am only above average now, various doctors told me the illness usually damages both, so I can only assume I am running on half of each, which makes me wonder how smart I would be now if it wasn't for the illness, would most likely still be lazy though. This is my explanation for the stories. I seemed to always have an affinity for learning, can just absorb it endlessly, but I have a problem with certain mental things, like understanding basic grammar rules etc. Even though I have tried to learn things like that I still can't understand things like adverbs, I know very sad. Or maybe I just can't understand rules, I should get that diagnosed then I would have a reason for breaking the law.

 

[Solitaire U.]

"First word, 'car', at 9 months. Apparently liked first word so much that everything became 'car' until 12 months. Speaking and responding in rudimentary but coherent sentences at 14 months."

So sayeth my "Baby's Growth and Development" journal.

 

[CoryJames]

My first words were apparently at a very very young age, according to my mother (I can't remember the actual age but I think around 1.5 years), and were an amusing foreshadowing of my personality and nature later in life.

"What's that?"

 

[tziporah]

My mother had two other kids before me, so she didn't really notice my first words, or even my child behavior. She only said that i was very good at pronouncing any words, long or not, before the age of 2.

 

[Deridaburi]

I'm told that at 18 months I was asking why I couldn't drive the car.

 

[SQ_Minion]

I barely talked until I was about four. My parents were starting to get a little worried, but I didn't seem to have any other signs of anything wrong, so they didn't get too worried. When I was four, though, I apparently started talking and didn't shut up for two years.

My sister, an ISTJ, started talking very early. Between 18 months and 2 years she would be carrying on conversations with my mother in the grocery store. Around age three she apparently picked up a book and started reading it in a very matter-of-fact way. My mother was shocked.

 

[Jchazard]

I started talking at talking at 9 months, walking at 11, and by the age of 4 I was able to count down from 100.

 

[walfin]

Supposedly learned to talk at < 1 year (that's supposed to be early I think).

Not sure if the first word was English, but I probably spoke a mixture of English and some Asian languages (like everyone else where I am).

Lots of baby talk (probably not the same as English baby talk though) because my family always talked baby talk to me. Probably made me stupider.

 

[lucyintheskies]

Not sure when I started talking - my brother is just 12 mos younger than me and highly extroverted. He probably didn't give me a chance to say anything.

Quality of speech varies widely among children. Some toddlers are very expressive but not terribly articulate. Typical cute-sy kid speak. They can communicate with their parents but not so well with adults outside of the family.

Uber-involved parents may train a child to repeat certain sounds (kind of like a trained parrot) so that they can impress their friends with the superiority of their DNA. I don't put these kids in same category as those who spontaneously develop sophisticated verbal skills.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

If my mother is to be believed, I uttered my first word at 6 months old.

I had keenly developed verbal abilities as a child(and I think it's still my strongest form of "intelligence"); I also had a vocabulary of my own for things which I could observe but didn't know the names of, and an affinity for foreign languages, such as english which I started learning spontaneously at kindergarten age via exposure to television.

This. Exactly this. I'd also call my parents collectively 'mapa', instead of papa or mama, because I didn't know which one to choose. (According to my mother)

 

[myexplodingcat]

Not sure when I learned to talk--I think my mom said it was fairly early-- but was using my own language. I could talk in English, but wouldn't call a shoe a shoe--I'd have some nonsense word to use for it. Like how the elephants are heffalumps in Winnie the Pooh. It used to drive my mom nuts, and a few of the words I made up are still being joked about.

I learned to read really quickly, too, and spent a lot of time doing that, if I wasn't watching Rugrats or Fairy OddParents or some other cartoon. But that's off-topic.

As for now, I seem to have a talent for foreign languages. French would be my easiest class if my Computer Apps class wasn't still trying to teach us how to copy and paste. *bangs head on desk*

 

[Cavallier]

Keep in mind that my mother is one of those wonderful individuals who isn't even remotely sentimental. So she doesn't really remember my first word. All she remembers is that I was easily frustrated as an infant. If I couldn't communicate what I wanted I'd squirm on the floor and scream for hours. So, she waited until I was old enough to talk before she toilet trained me. I was 1 and 1/2 years old when she did this so I must have been able to communicate in some sort of rudimentary manner.

Anyway, my father insists my first words were "Uh Oh!" and that hearing my tiny voice uttering those words would strike fear into his fatherly heart. (It's sort of like the infant version of "Oh shit!")

I've always had a good vocabulary. I think this is because I didn't really play with any children until I was 6 and in Kindergarten.

 

[cheese]

Love Cog's story.

I don't have any clue, and am amazed you people are so informed. I *do* know I couldn't pronounce "yes" though, and said "wes" instead - and my parents used to use the same word in an effort to communicate with me. I just got frustrated though: "No, not wes! WES! Not wes, WES! Aaaargh!"