Is it my AS, or my personality, or a past life experience?

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I've spoken with an accent and loved Routemasters for my whole entire life. The only other people that I can think of, who are this way, would be Londoners. Cockneys, to be more specific, being that I have a Cockney accent. This doesn't really bother me, as I enjoy being different. I was just wondering if this difference was caused by my AS, personality or a past life.

I'm guessing from your post that you weren't raised in London or around people who spoke with Cockney accents. That it's something you adopted on purpose. I don't believe in past lives (other than the general information that we inherited via DNA) so that leaves AS vs. personality. I think it's part of your personality because sometimes NT people do it too. Madonna, most famously, who made herself over as a Londoner and adopted an English accent when she married Guy Ritchie- and she's undeniably NT.

I do remember seeing various footage of London on TV and saying to my strictly Canadian parents, "Wow! I want to be like that, when I grow up!" Both of my parents appeared to be shocked. A year later, I got to explore the inside of a Routemaster with my preschool class, in Victoria BC.

As a result, my parents never did get around to telling me what it means to be Canadian, because they could see that I've already made my mind up. They did tell my little sister, and I did listen, but my mind was made up.

It sounds like it was more of a choice you made rather than something you instinctually picked up, which to me would suggest personality. I live in oxford, yet i have more of cockney accent. I never purposelly decided to talk like a londoner, i just do, which i've always attributed to my autism.

I think it's probably due to an obsession with the english accent. Which is probably because of AS. Madonnna did adopt an English accent, but only after she actually moved to England, which makes a little more sense. You've done it just because you wanted to.

AS and personality both. They interact. AS has a big impact on your personality and your personality regulates how your AS expresses itself. It's not like you've got two brains, one for each, right?

You've all expressed some interesting points. One thing that I didn't mention is that there were a handful of Londoners who were born into my great grandmother's family, on my dad's side of the family, in the 1800s. I look forward to reading more of what everybody makes of this. :O)

I've also started speaking fluently, at the age of 2 and a half. It happened to be 1977 at the time when punk was big, around the world. I've found the accents of the British bands to be more pleasing to my ears, than the harsh yelling Canadian voices, of the adults who always seemed to be yelling at me. Like most 2 year olds, I was getting into my fair amount of trouble.