Autism and accent

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record your speech and then listen to it

My voice seems to changed based off of my surroundings. I seem to mimic others and display a tone of speech that I see fit for the surrounding. At my full time job I speak with more fluency due to my job being a leadership roll. At my job as a cashier I seem to have a British accent. I live in Iowa, USA. While with family I talk with more of a local accent. I try and fit into my rolls in life. But no matter what type of speech I display it seems to come out slow and does not flow naturally. I tend to stop in the middle of sentences and pause and then start talking again. People usually think I'm done talking and begin to speak at the same time I start talking again.

Whenever I listen to recordings of my own voice, it often sounds like a whiny monotone of some sort, which is quite annoying as it sounds nothing like it does in my head.

I don't think I know enough about linguistics to be able to compare the Cockney, South ("Sarf") London and Estuary English accents. They sound pretty similar to me.

When I was growing up kids often adopted one of these accents from popular TV shows of the day to sound tough/cool. I tried too (because you basically had to) but the results must have been quite comical. I was glad when I grew up a bit and felt freer to speak as I wanted.

"Chav" is a more recent term and I don't know if it has a particular associated accent. It's probably similar to one of the above, maybe with some influences from black popular culture.

I have a southern accent after being in texas a while

What accent do you think Gordon Ramsey speaks in? Sometimes, I wonder if he speaks in "curse."

That's also the same as me. I've never faked my accent.

My accent is a mix of a southern slur and a Japanese accent. I watch so much anime and listen to Japanese music so I make sounds and tones that's more exclusive to them. Its a strange mix to say the least since it makes my "R" sounds really inconsistent and strange because sometimes it gets lost or other times I might flap the R like the Japanese.

I tend to speak in a higher pitch (could be considered to be a slight "deaf accent") and it is monotone. However, I can hear my voice with my new hearing aids but I do not know how to add emotion to my voice.

Most people from the southern US don't think that I have any kind of a Southern accent, but people from other parts of the country pick up on it occasionally. I throw in phrases from various dialects into my speech for comic effect, so they reflect what I've been exposed to.

I think that people often pick up dialects in order to fit in, so some autists will have a dialect and some won't. Most of us try to fit in in some ways, to varying degrees.

Thanks, everyone! (I had already forgotten that I'd started this thread...)

I've lived in Michigan for most of my life, though I spent a little time in Indiana and Pennsylvania. People assume that I'm from either the southeast or southwest of the United States; I don't know if this means that my accent isn't always consistent, or if they're just guessing.

I find it interesting that so many seem to adopt the accent of whomever they're conversing with. I tend to do this to some extent. Funny story: I went to a family reunion in Oklahoma and was just accidentally speaking more like them. A sophisticated nerd cousin was explaining some of the contents of his nerdy shelves and he mentioned the Lord of the Rings movies. I said, "I love Tolkein!" BUT this came out with a severe southern twang (Towllllkeeen...)

He said, balefully, "Its Toll-kin."

I said, "Ah knayew thaht."

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I like that...maybe brlbfl-ese for short?

i have a "drawling tone" as it is described...by those that describe it.
some people think i sound haughty or arrogant.
http://www.soundclick.com/player/single ... 34956&q=hi

a classmate of mine commented how my accent is undescribable...it has mixture of american and australian accent (i'm not australian or american though) but at the same time, not really

my accent is a little bit strong but a the same time soft

it's just plain....

I sound like I'm straight out of Gone With The Wind.

Hey, the topic I just posted is really similar to this.

I have an unusual voice. It doesn't sound at all like any of my family or the people around me.

Also, sometimes I slip into this strange, unidentifiable accent. It's sudden and doesn't really occur in a reliable pattern. I've seen a couple of posts on other websites and there are a few aspies who share this trait, I know.