My baby sisters first words sounded like "pro-seat-ah ka-sha". We came to learn that she was mimicking Captain Picard saying "proceed with caution". Lol
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My granddad taught me to say "Skål", the Swedish word for cheers, much to the amusement of my parents.
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My son spoke late, as I recall. ( I'm old AF- 71) So, a little slack here, please. Chris had a rubbery face that was amazingly expressive. With glances gestures or points, he communicated perfectly. He would speak words but preferred not to. I think he was a year and a half old when I was carrying him in a store he used amazing cleverness in avoiding speech. We walked past a fountain as we entered the store and he was obviously amazed by it, but I ignored his eager pointing and leaning towards the fountain in an attempt at drawing out some words. Frustrated, Chris grabbed both sides of my head stared right into my eyes and yanked my head around to point me at the fountain. I laughed so hard I almost dropped the little bugger. ( Yes, he could walk, but letting a child walk through a gift shop is reckless insanity.) Yes, he could talk at that point but only chose to use single words and gestures at most. In his chosen silence we later discovered he had been accumulating an immense vocabulary and impressive insights on how things worked and sounded. A year later he had impressively mastered replicating the sounds of kitchen appliances and the various woodworking tools I used to remodel our house. Very bright, quite odd and funny child.
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Apparently mine was "clock", supposedly because we had a chiming clock, and if I was in the room and reacted to it when it chimed, adults would say "clock" probably several times, until one day I said it myself in reaction to the chime.
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My dad told me i was nonverbal until the age of 2, when i suddenly started speaking full sentences. My first words were "i dont like you Michael", directed at his roommate, Michael, who i guess I didn't like lol. Apparently being nonverbal and then skipping to full sentences is fairly common for autistic children, even if I didn't realize i was on the spectrum till i was 19 its fun to think about and notice those details that shouldve made the autism much more obvious when i was a kid, but alas it wasnt diagnosed while i was a child because i was a girl and my mom refused to believe that there was anything different about me other than me just being "gifted" and refused to take me to a psychologist to have me assed while i was a kid. At age 19 life had gotten hard enough that the differences and challenges of autism were noticable enough for me to finally get said diagnosis, and now all those various weird stories from my childhood, like saying nothing until i was 2 and then just speaking in full sentences like it was normal, make a lot more sense.
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According to mum, my first words were a rather demanding sentence; “new food!”. I now work as a registered dietitian and nutritionist, so it’s clear to see that my interests haven’t changed an awful lot!
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My twin sister's was "stop" mine was "no". I think you can figure out who was annoying who
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When my elder daughter was born we lived in Tanzania. Her first word was "kuku" which is the kiswahili word for hen or chicken. That was what she saw when she looked out of the window 😊
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My late mother said my first word was “moo.” I was lying on my back pointing at the sky. Took her a minute to realize that I wasn’t trying to suggest that there was a cow in the sky but rather I was trying to say “moon.” 😂
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My three first words were apparently "mama", "papa" and "tiger". I really liked tigers for some reason 😅
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My daughter’s were ‘oh dear!’ because that’s what I said whenever she dropped anything which the dog then ate (everything). She would later drop food on purpose for the dog calling ‘oh dear!’. 🐶
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One of mine was only about 6 months old when she pointed at my soda can and said, "dodder bebber!" (I drank a lot of Doctor Pepper in those days.) She didn't say another word for several months, and then started with the usual "dada," then "mama." We were shocked
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My middle son's first word was "guitaaa". Unsurprisingly, he's been learning how to play one since the age of four. My youngest's first word was "paradise" (it was a beautiful autumn day at a local park). He still adores being out in the nature. My eldest used to say "dada" loong before anything else (as a matter of fact, due to severe autism he couldn't talk until the age of just under six), his next coherent phrase years later was "Mommy I love you, may I have the computer, please". ) And my daughter's first word was, unsurprisingly, "Mama". Except she said it over the shoulder of an anaesthesiologist as she was being carried off to a very complicated open-heart surgery. She is ten and doing great now, but her first word will be lodged in my memory for as long as I am alive.
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My kids and I were all mundane things like momma and dada. But my grandfather... He was a little toot. My great grandma did everything she could to get him to talk, but he just wouldn't. He communicated, but wouldn't speak. Included in her plan was reading to him on a regular basis. He was SIX years old when he looked at some mail my great grandma was reading and said, "Why is that person asking how I'm doing?" Yep. First words were a whole, clear sentence based on what he had READ. The little toot.
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Dada for me and my son. My husband’s baby book says Dada. My daughter used Mmm to mean me, before she could say Mama. Her 3yr old brother would come get me and say “She’s humming for you.”❤
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I don't know mine, but I know my dad's. It was the 1960s and a big shopping centre near his house was underconstruction. Its name was on the radio constantly. So my dad's first word was Yorkdale. I know an autistic woman who didn't have a first word. She had a first sentence when she was 4. "The baby wants milk." And nobody remembers why she was the only one who noticed.
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1st child ... dada 2nd child ... good 3rd child ... bobba (bottle) 4th child ... mama
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RobWords
Has anyone ever told you what your first word was?
Can you remember the first words of your children?
If so, I'd be fascinated to hear from you – even if it was something apparently mundane like "mama" or "papa". Drop me a comment below.
Words in other languages are also welcome.
Cheers,
Rob
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