ASD people who sound really weird

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Have you met people like this?

I met this chap the other night (who clearly hadn't had a bath/shower in a while, so I didn't get too close to him) and he droned on and on and on. The thing that I remember about him though was his accent. The intonation and his voice and pacing was really odd and monotone and I actually thought he was German or perhaps a stronger Danish accent. Turned out he was from a nearby village and was obsessed with American TV, but sounded absolutely nothing like any American voice I've ever heard before and there was no local accent in his voice of any kind. Creeped me out a bit.

Ever met people like that?

tequila,
having a plain voice is a common trait across the whole spectrum,am guessing it is part of the mirror neuron issue; we lack these to varying degrees;these are what makes a person mirror the social behaviors of other humans but without these we woudnt be influenced by the local accents around us.
am only verbal for half the day;which is purely echolalic speech,and then the brain turns it off [visible under EEG] but the accent itself is said to be southern,plummy- am from manchester,and grew up around both the manc and the chav accent and mum and dad have a hardcore tipperary accent and the other a donegal accent yet have had people suggest have got that disorder; foreign accent syndrome because of having such a smooth plain accent.
have lived with many other severe and verbal profound autistics who are exactly the same.

now am not sure how this lancastrian guy has got a dutch accent,am not even sure what that sounds like but its possible it coud be lack of mirror neuron theory, or even foreign accent syndrome.
have personaly never heard someone else on the spectrum speak in a foreign accent though unless theyre from that country.

I've been told I have a combo English and Canadian accent. I'm from he westcoast of the US. I tend to unconsciously mimic accents of people I am talking to if it's strong especially. I don't do it on purpose and it's not as if I pick up any of their social cues or mirror any of their other behaviors. If I'm nervous I can drone on in a monotone voice.

I don't know if he was autistic but one time on the bus there was a guy whose voice reminded me of Stephen Hawking.

People tell me that I have no local accent, and no other accent (exept a few people that in the past have asked me if I were French or Spanish).

I speak very fast sometimes and also monotonic, so it may be because of that? I don't know.

My mother says that my voice has no accent, either.