APA Dictionary of Psychology

pronoun reversal

Updated on 11/15/2023
a speech phenomenon observed in children with autism spectrum disorder, in which the child refers to themself in the second or third person (e.g., you, him, she, they) while identifying others by first-person pronouns (e.g., me). Also called pronominal reversal.
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