Why do a lot of us have strange accents?

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Pseudeos, I know exactly what you mean about accents.
I'm a kiwi, but I ALWAYS have people ask things like "which part of America are you from?" and "do you watch heaps of American TV?" (which I don't)
I think it is an aspie tendancy, you know, like trying to copy what people do socially, and in it, involving accents.
My mother gets extremely annoyed at my accent, though.

Well people think I have an accent and I'm not on the spectrum or anything. I think I just have an unusual voice or something. I'm from San Francisco so I just say it's a native San Franciscan accent.

I don't have a welsh accent even though I "should" -- after all, I spent all of my childhood there, except my first 3 years.

It's quite common for people on the spectrum to have an accent that's different to the one they were brought up with. While typical people adopt the accent of their peers (more or less), it's my bet that we're more likely to copy our parents or even people on TV, because as kids, we spent less time socialising with our peers than typical children.

I have a little bit of a Jamaican accent but I'm american

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I was always very thoughtful about how to pronounce a word. I tended to choose pronunciations that rolled off the tongue more easily and didn't emphasize syllables. Between that and my formal speaking style, I've had more than one person ask if I'm British. It usually isn't the smartest people who ask that though (to be brutally honest … though maybe it's a politeness thing?) … most people know I have a standard midwest accent.

I speak mainly American Standard English, though the most that you would be able to tell about my origins is my country of birth.

! !! ! I was so excited when I saw this. I have always been asked where I was from, or assumed to be from England. At least that's the top bet. There have also been guesses of American or Canadian (I live in New Zealand as I always have) I have been to a speech therapist a few times as a speech impediment that developed fairly randomly, affecting my "Ls" "Ths" and "R's though the L is the real kicker, being the most noticeable. I'm kind of amazed to realize it's part of my aspergers rather than my simply mislearning when I was a kid.

My problem with accents is that when I'm talking to someone with an accent, I start to mimic it. I have to be really vigilant because I don't want them to think I'm taking to piss and because I'm so focused on not mimicking I come across as distracted. I can't win.

Until the age of about 16, I spoke with a way more "RP" dialect- but not accent- than most local people. Then I made an attempt to sound more "local", and it's been a success.

I have a stilted, unnatural speech style. I have exaggerated pronunciation and monotonous, robotic intonation. I struggle with controlling my voice volume.

My voice wildly varies from monotonous tones that creeps others out, to.. Well, too 'cheerful' and pitchy enough to mistook my voice for a 12 year old! My volume had much on either too soft or too loud, and barely had any in between.

Accent? I unintentionally, randomly pick up accents. Sometimes I didn't knew I did. The source could be from anywhere, in any speech I heard.
It kinda helps that encountering different accents from various regions are commonplace from where I live. That's mostly why I get away with it.

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I wasn't aware that aspies had strange accents. But my guess is that the speech of aspies is more influenced by the speech of their parents, and that NT children gets more influenced by their peers. So in a family of transplants from one region of a country to another the NT siblings would assimilate to the local dialect more, and the aspie sibling would retain more of the dialect of the region that the parents grew up in.