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Michael with me today is Marsh Hello and Alice and so there's a thing that autistic people get okay and I don't know if Alice gets this on I I will find out over the course of this conversation, but I don't have an inner

monologue. We've talked about this on the show that I don't have an analog. Alice I think you don't have an

an informal one. I can turn it on or off, it's like subtitles on the

telly. I only have it. If I'm writing words, I might think about the words that I want to

write. Right. Yeah, yeah, but what I do get is a phenomenon that you can think of as a form of echolalia. So echolalia is where you involuntarily repeat words and phrases that are said to you.

Yes, yeah. And that's something that I've done for a lot of my life, but not even necessarily words and phrases, but like the supermarket checkout I'll impersonate it. You know, like I do it with both thing and it'll go beep and I'll go beep and I'll go beep and I'll spend the rest of the time going

beep for the next hour yeah I do it as but it's entirely voluntary if I hear

at any animal noise I'll make the animal noise back at it as if I'm in

conversation and occasionally the bird will answer and it'll just have it back and forth

yeah about bird getting increasingly piss conversation and occasionally the bird will answer and he'll just have a back and forth.

Yeah, and that bird's getting increasingly pissed off

because it's gone, hello, and you've gone, hello, and it's gone,

hello, hello, hello.

That's fucking. Yeah, just wind it right up. Winding the birds up. Yeah.

Flapp a little bastard. That's all right, you know, because they used to be dinosaurs,

used to rule the world. Now look at them. Yeah, they're being you know,

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