I've recently asked my parents again to clarify when exactly I learned to talk vs. walk, and as it turns out what my Mum deemed "very early" wasn't *that* early after all...
Basically I started talking at around 14 months with the usual Mama and Dada type stuff, but didn't start to walk until I was 16 months or older. (By which time I used several words but it was still intelligible for the most part - my pronunciation was very strange until I got a bit older)
I could walk outdoors for short walks around 17 months but I hated it and was in the pram until ca. 3 y.o. When they tried to make me walk I kept asking random people to carry me, including my heavily pregnant auntie when I was 2 - apparently I stood in front of her, stretched my arms out and declared "[You] may carry [me] now". I used two-word phrases for a long time as well, my favourite being "Dea self" (i.e. I do that by myself, f-off).
I think I deffinitly walked before talked, but I'm not sure. At least I talked very little at the time I learned to walk. My parents tell me that I almost always slept.
I think I deffinitly walked before talked, but I'm not sure. At least I talked very little at the time I learned to walk. My parents tell me that I almost always slept.
Ah, a "good baby" then. I wasn't one of those... I cried my lungs out for the first few weeks, non-stop, they even locked me in the storage room in hospital because I wouldn't stop crying 
I did later end up sleeping through very noisy events like parades though 
I don't know whether I learnt to talk before I walked. I'll find out though.
I was a 'good baby'. I didn't always sleep but I rarely cried, instead I apparantly made a 'ning' type noise if I wanted something, so they used to call me 'the ninger' when I was a baby.
I really have no idea... I guess I should ask my mom.
My parents always told me how "extremely early" I started to speak, but going by a poll on another forum 14 months is pretty late, especially for a girl. Ah well...
I don't know whether I learnt to talk before I walked. I'll find out though.
I was a 'good baby'. I didn't always sleep but I rarely cried, instead I apparantly made a 'ning' type noise if I wanted something, so they used to call me 'the ninger' when I was a baby.
Bless, that sounds sweet, "ninger". I used to hum and sing to myself a lot long before starting to talk (and I do remember at least one occasion at ca. 3 y.o. where I was almost in a trance humming to myself and my Mum had a heck of a time snapping me out of it), going by how tone-deaf I am nowadays I pity my poor parents!
however, I still have a school report where the teacher blames it more on a reluctance to conform than anything else!
Hehe, anything to avoid possible accusations of being a rubbish teacher, eh?
Besides, mum also agrees that was most likely the case, given that as soon as I
wanted to read and write (...motivated by some daft educational computer game my parents bought me), I was more than able to.
Thus began my career as frustratingly stubborn geek.
LOL methinks you got suckered into reading by a game - not very rebellious 
I walked at 15 months and talked at 18 months and read at 4 years. This is probably part of the reason it would have been very hard to get a diagnosis at that age. I could say my alphabet at 3 because of having this naptime ritual of getting mum to go through all the blocks with me. It's possible I could have been hyperlexic and this caused some issues when I started school as I soon got bored with what I termed "baby books" which were what the rest of the class was studying.
I could read newspapers when I was 7 and Reader's Digests at 8 and the set readers at school were dull in comparison. Plus, even at age 6 I was wondering why the boys in the books got to do all the exciting activities whereas the girls were quiet and docile and always helping mummy in the house and playing with dolls.
I learnt (read my baby book) that I said my first word when I was 7 and a half months old, and that I learnt to crawl at 6 months but no success learning when I walked.
Talked at 7 months. I developed my speech and vocabulary very quickly, yet had (and still have) a slight speech impediment.
Didn't walk till 18 months, and even now, 24 years later I still have trouble putting one foot in front of the other.
LOL, I have no trouble getting one foot in front of another. The problem is they don't get out of the way when the other foot moves into its place :p
It is a very good job that we aren't ballroom dancing partners Noetic!
It would all end in a spectacular tangle of limbs....
LOL well the limbs aren't the problem for me, it's more that my feet sometimes don't obey (turn sideways for example, or don't lift off the floor properly).
Is shuffling your feet when you walk (dragging your feet as opposed to lifting them) an aspie trait? And feet turning sideways (especially when going up/down stairs)?
I've always done both, it just never occurred to me that it could be connected until you mentioned it.
Again, I'm way off topic, I am just very interested in Noetic's feet.
Oops sent that one too soon!
Is shuffling your feet when you walk (dragging your feet as opposed to lifting them) an aspie trait? And feet turning sideways (especially when going up/down stairs)?
I've always done both, it just never occurred to me that it could be connected until you mentioned it.
Not Aspie but I believe it is linked to loose joints, which are common on the Spectrum. Mine are weird that way they are not all bendy, and some are only loose 'sideways' rather than backwards (bending fingers backwards etc. I can't do, but they twist sideways and are bent from carrying shopping etc.).
Again, I'm way off topic, I am just very interested in Noetic's feet.
LOL don't be they're not very nice. Wide, flat and all my toes are bent. (Dad blames it on toe-walking. I blame it on hitting a ton of corners and doorframes all my life!)
PS: Talk about loose joints and clumsiness all you like, it's probably strongly linked with late walking anyway! (Loose joints at least definitely is, AFAIK) Plus it's my thread so talk about feet all you like