Aspergers isn't a disorder.

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I'd be interested in seeing the study too, if you can link to it.

I have observed this linguistic style in people, adults and children, who I know are diagnosed with Asperger's and autism. There is an unusual precision of speech, an almost literary way of using vocabulary, and they don't have a local accent - often their speech is almost accent less or they have a slightly American or English accent. I have also noticed this linguistic style in people whose diagnostic status I don't know but who show other signs of autism.

Very interesting.

This is further proof that we view society through NTs standards, to consider that being well-spoken and over-rational is somehow a "disease".

I relate anyway, I choose my words carefully when I speak and I don't speak with the local accent (in French, I live in a city with a peculiar local accent), but I think it stems from the fact I'm scared to death of being misunderstood.

Detail: I have a thick tongue, I speak with a flat intonation and I tend to have a slurred speech as if I had a stroke (it's apparent when I record my voice)

Could you perhaps elucidate a bit as to what the intended meaning of "accentless" is? It is my understanding that everything's a dialect. How can one lack a dialect?

What you wrote does resonate, however. In my case it would bother me when I heard people omit particular letters or insert other letters into words (like saying "Wednesdee" instead of "Wednesday" or "warsh" instead of "wash") and tried to avoid any such alterations to my own pronunciation. I also, when I was younger, tried to avoid contractions because I felt they were improper and incorrect in some way. I also hated vernacular terms, but I've slowly adopted several over the years.

They may mean monotonous.

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Definitely not true for me.

My only language "oddities" are that I tend to say whatever is on my mind with a limited ability to judge it's appropriateness. It's a real PITA at work. And I stutter.

Other than that, I used "local" speech the same as anybody. Of course, "words" were a bit of a special interest and I tended to obsessively acquire more of them regardless of whether they were "proper." Slang delights me. Always has. Cowabunga!! !! ! Radical, dude! Dig it.

Where I come from, "creek" is "crick" and "tiger" is "tager."

Do you mean a monotone? That doesn't necessarily lack an accent.

I have a cockney accent, which most people have where I come from.