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I speak different than people in my city, I've read many box and my non official language became mix between city dialect and literal. Many people think that becuase my language and becuase i don't go often in city, whole time at home, that i come from another city.
Is using own language asperger characteristic?

I grew up in the South and the Midwest US, but I speak with a West Coast accent, because both my parents do, and I picked it up from them when I was learning to speak. I speak with the accent native to my family, not necessarily native to my location.

i find this interesting

all my life (i am now 45) I have
lived in London and people meeting me for
the 1st time always think I am
from Australia or something.

I'm Australian and I speak like Daniel Jackson from Stargate SG1. I've been involuntarily picking up accents for years.

I think we're just really good at mimicking people. People in a conversation would copy each other but with me I pick up the accent, dress style, and even mannerisms for many months to a year or more.

I know I consciously defied my parents' and grandparents' dialects. It annoyed me when my father would say "warsh" instead of "wash" and my maternal grandmother would say "Mondee" instead of "Monday."

I don't think my dialect is really off for my region (Pacific Northwest), although when I take dialect tests they say I talk like a midwesterner from Fargo, which I do not.

I did go through a phase where I imitated accents constantly, but I stopped doing it sometime around 16-18.

I speak with a strange accent that isn't from anywhere.

I live in the southeast US and people think I talk like I'm from England.

In relation with my dialect, problem have my 2 kids, i really like they "copy" my husband in behavior, but they "copy" my language and behavior, beside they going in school and meet other kids, cousins and other people. My contact with them is reduced, becuase older son visit school, going out with friend, my younger son is whole time in play school and visit logopedian, and again .. they speak like me. They absolutely haven't asperger, both, but coping of my behavior have made problem with them development.

As a kid, I was told I spoke with something of a German accent. If true, I suppose it was because I had picked it up from my Mom, who had in turn picked up from her parents. I think I sound like a regular west coast guy these days.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I don't really know what to call my accent. I live in the south...I always have. People that hear me speak stop and stare...ask me if I am from either "up north??", "New York??", or "Britain". They don't believe me when I tell them that I have lived in this state my entire life. It is odd. My accent sounds nothing like that of my parent, siblings, or grandparents. That said, only ONE of my siblings has a southern accent. The rest all sound different...just not in the same way that I do. I have been told that I put inflection in weird places on occasion...

I've heard that it's common in Aspies. I've also heard that the reason might be that we don't socialise much, we get a lot of our spoken word input from other sources, so for example I still have a slight Liverpool accent because I used to be obsessed about the Beatles and other Merseybeat bands.

Yes, this is extremely common for Aspies. Interesting that it happens as much in Macedonia as much as in English speaking countries, though I'd expect this phenomenon anywhere. I constantly have people say I'm from another city or even another area of the world. Many non-American Aspies come across as American. Recently, I could have got hurt at the hands of an idiot in the street, because I couldn't convince him I wasn't an immigrant.