daughter has an american accent - we're not from US

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I've heard of this in relation to Aspies before.

A few years ago, a TV programme in the UK about giving Autistic people the chance to perform live music called "Autistic Superstars" featured a girl called Carly Ryan, who, at times, spoke in accents she'd heard from people on TV.

From a fairly young age, I've spoken in a very formal accent, although this may have had more to do with rebellion and appearing to be more intelligent than anything else.

By the way, for those from the UK who know who Guy Martin (the motorcycle racer) is, of everyone I've heard speak English, I find he is one of the toughest to understand.

Here's a sample:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVXc29ZgutI[/youtube]

Is that a common accent in some parts of England?

People think I am from New York or from Australia.

It's from the north of England don't know if it's Yorkshire or Lancashire maybe. I can just about make him out but I think the speed at which he talks is part of the problem.

Well, as long as your daughter doesn't try to drive on the other side of the road, drink ice-cold lager and eat Big Macs for breakfast, you'll not have much to worry about.

New York

or Australia??????????????

Those two dialects dont sound remotely alike.

You must hang with deaf people.

People are always asking me or my best friend if I'm from London. I'm a third generation Canadian.

Always assumed you were british because of your screen name.

So apparently you talk like Micheal Caine ( who really is a Cockney from the streets of London) but you're not really a "Cockney" ( rebel, or otherwise) and have never been near London in your life! But folks label as a 'cockney' just because how you speak?

Okay.

Whatever.

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No one eats Big Macs for breakfast. Breakfast is Egg Mc Muffin. Lunch/Dinner is Big Macs.

I drive on any side of the road. There's not a whole lot of traffic around here. I just got back from a memorial service for someone I have known since we were kids. In the twenty miles to the church just before 2 pm on a Saturday afternoon, I saw only one moving vehicle, including in town. In the twenty miles back, I saw only three moving vehicles, two of them in town. So sometimes I drive on the left. Sometimes I drive on the right. But usually I drive right down the middle.

I drink cold lager, but mainly because I drink so little I figure it is more likely to go bad if I don't keep it refrigerated. Right now I have some Guinness in the refrigerator. I'll take it out and let it warm up a while before I drink it, but I don't usually start in time to let it warm up to room temperature. Of course, our room temperature around here is probably considerably warmer than room temperature in Ireland, especially in the summertime.

As for Big Macs, I've only eaten two of them in my whole life. The first one made me quite sick and so I've never been tempted to eat another. The only time I did was when I was at a job site and someone went out to get hamburgers for us to eat. I had no idea they where they were going until they got back.

Hi

I found your post via a Google search. I wonder how this worked out for you? We're from Northern Ireland too and my daughter speaks in a southern English accent. Her dad and his folks are English but from the north and she doesn't watch s massive amount of TV to have picked it up from there. She hasn't picked up our local accent despite being in nursery a year now. I'm starting to wonder about ASD due to this and some other issues.

I got seriously thrown off the last time someone asked me "what's happening?" I knew they were trying to ask "How are you?" but my brain got scrambled trying to process the odd phrase they'd used, and come up with an appropriate response. I ended up saying, "We're at a party..." explaining exactly "what was happening" at that moment, which I felt really stupid for afterwards! It was okay though because it was a party being thrown by my social skills group, so the attendees all knew we were autistic and prone to saying weird stuff!

I sound British but I have never been there.