Are strange accents part of Asperger's?

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I know, right? I'm like OMG.

People have been asking me if I'm english since elementary school. Once I was asked "What part of germany are you from?". Someone else asked if I didn't have a palate (I do). By the way I'm american.

Yes! People always tell me I sound like I'm from Minnesota or Wisconsin, but I've been to neither in my life. I've also been told I sound Canadian, but I'm from Florida!

I'm English, yet I get told many times that my accent sounds Japanese. I've studied Japanese since I was 12..

Minnesota eh?

I've been told I sound as if I come from the West Country -

I don't - and only been there once .....

I think Aspies have an "accent" because they do not absorb the local accent as easily as someone more socially wired. I used to speak with greater diction than everyone else, and loads of people thought I was English. I now have the ability to mimic those around me. Now, I apparently speak with a more pronounced accent than even most locals, although I can switch to General American when I need to.

I don't have an unusual accent, mine's the same as other cockneys. I know a bus-driver who has an unusual accent, but she really is from Essex like me and so are her parents and rest of the family, but I think she has traits of an ASD, or if not, some other disorder.

Don't a lot of people from the Midwest retire in Florida, or are you not from that part?

My accent is very different to others in the East Midlands, UK. I’ve been told I don’t really have a regional accent and come across as posh. But I’ve always put this down to my mother coming from Sussex and my father from Ireland; didn’t think it was necessarily an aspie thing; might have to reconsider.

My voice has always been weird. I'm DXed NVLD, not Aspergers, I probably fit the qualifications for AS, but whatever. For some reason, people say my voice sounds British. Huh? I think it's because I try to speak properly at all times. Monotone is a complaint I get constantly, too. I've told the story on this board, how a Pakistani guy didn't even think I was American, and I was born here. So I don't know, possible, but yeah, I don't know. Still, it was odd being told I had a British accent. I think I'm just excessively formal in normal conversation speech, and I basically talk in real life as I type on this board, so if you met a person like that, yeah.

I grew up in the South, but I don't always have a Southern accent. If I am talking to strangers, I have no identifiable accent. People will often ask me where I'm from. I am also usually anxious talking to strangers. At home with my partner I have a particular type of Southern accent, similar to that of where I live. When I went to Texas with her (where she lived for many years) I quickly developed a Texan accent, particularly a San Antonio one. When I am with my parents I have a west Tennessee accent, which is where they are from. It's almost like I unconsciously think of the different accents more as different dialects or languages, and shift into the appropriate one without thinking about it.

Everyone thinks I am from Australia...

One of the Psychologists that I work with says that there is this ASD prgmatic thing. I keep saying that this topic would be a dissertaion worthy one.

Hm... there are a lot of retired northerners in Florida. My dad is from New Jersey, but we still pronounce things differently. I did grow up watching some Canadian shows, so maybe I picked it up from them...

I'm Dutch but go to an English-spoken university. I speak fluent English, about 95% self-taught since I was 8. When I was very young I spoke with an American accent because television was my main source of information, but since my grandmother is English I decided to start speaking with a British accent a few years ago. Non-native English speakers praise me for my nice, natural-sounding accent but native English speakers have frequently told me I have a slight French accent (I speak French, not very fluently though). One even thought I was from South-Africa after hearing me speak.

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Eastern Canada, right?