Anyway, so a little backdrop - I've posted a lot about echolalia and Bitty's slow progress with learning to speak by repeating what we say.
This means he speaks with his "you" and "I / me" pronouns reversed.
"Yoo-wah chwocka miwk?" means "I want chocolate milk."
"Why yoo cwy-een?" means he's upset and looking for some comforting.
And so on.
We've been trying to work on it, modeling what it should sound like but so far with no luck. Until this morning, that is.
Out of the blue, Bitty told me, "Ah nee hep!" (I need help, said in his cute southern drawl).
Not "yoo nee hep?"
Not "yoo nee-ta-put yoh undu-wea-uh on?"
He actually spoke in the first person as he held out his Thomas underwear to me. He can put them on himself, but if they're inside out from the laundry he needs help to straighten them out first, which was the case this morning.
I asked dh (who was still in bed but might have been awake enough to hear) excitedly if he heard that. He mumbled, and Bitty told me, "Da-ee's sweepee."
Yeah, I know he's sleeping :) (how sweet, not to mention observant of Bitty) But that was too cool not to share!
As with most things, it's not like he's just made the switch to speaking in the first person all the time. Just now he told me, "yoo cween-up da daw-ter sooss" which was meant to tell me that he just cleaned up his Dr. Seuss (Cat in the Hat game).
But now that he's used the term "I" instead of "you" appropriately once, I know we'll see it again sooner or later. :)
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As another aside (just one of those random things I don't want to forget) he's pronouncing Dr. Seuss correctly now but first read it as, "Dr. Sauce" lol :).
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so awesome! I thought he was asking to clean up tarter sauce! ha! I'm glad you provided the translation for me too!
SOOOOOOOO awesome for two reasons:
1. He used pronoun correctly and
2. He asked for help :)
Yay for Bitty! Such a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing this experience with us!
Martha
TOTALLY COOL! I remember Josh used to come up to me (at almost three) with a diaper in his hand and say, "You wet? I change you? Eee bopper." eee bopper was either need diaper or here's a diaper.