asperger's and accents

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People will ask me if I'm from England, Australia, or Canada all the time, but I live in the US! XD But if I speak Japanese for a few minutes, then speak English again, I'll have a Japanese accent for a few seconds. It's weird.

as a foreigner living in England, it all depends on my anxiety level. If I'm relaxed, many people think I'm British, although they cannot locate from where. When I'm in a stressfull situation, my language deteriorates immensely... Many then think I'm German (which I'm not).

My accent is a very common western american accent (as in the one most Americans speak with. Do not interpret West as "wild west" or Texas), and it's no different from anyone else's. I do however say "Muh" when i'm supposed to pronounce "Ma", and almost always say Mum and not Mom when I address my mother.

I have a sort of robotic voice. I guess I would call it an Aspie accent! lol I sound almost British because I am much more articulate than the average American. But it is obviously not a British accent. You may have a similar voice to me, as a robotic voice is a sign of Asperger's, so people may find your voice sort of like they find mine.

I noticed that when i speak norwegian, after my italian pronunce improves a bit for few minutes.

I naturally have a Manchester accent that 's kind of rough but a lot less filthy than the way the scallies I grew up with speak. My normal accent isn't different from the way my parents speak.

I have messed around with bits of other accents because I liked people who had them. I don't do it consciously. I just end up talking like people I like.

i've always been told i have a slightly posher accent than people from the same place as me. even when i was younger and have never lived anywhere else, so i have no idea where it caame from:/
of course when i did live somewhere else they thought i was common as muck. can't win!

The member of my family who has ASD is always being asked where she comes from. Usually it's "Are you from Australia?" or "Are you from Canada?" She is from Yorkshire!! She is often singled out as being posh which annoys her!

I have Asperger's Syndrome, and I'm Canadian, but I speak in a New York (Manhattan)-Californian American Accent. And I speak and write in American English rather than my homeland. Due to watching American Channels as a child, when learning English.

Well, accents...

For the longest time my accent was more or less generic Canadian, but over the years, I've been reading about various countries, centred around Northern Europe, Russia, and the British Isles, and have talked similar to that. Like lately I've noticed I've been talking kinda a cross between native Irish and my Canadian, and in the past I've talked like a scouser. But earlier on, I could talk more Nordic, close to Finnish or Estonian, and other times I've talked more Dutch, sometimes Swedish, sometimes German, sometimes Russian. All of this and I never left Canada in my life! This is all from watching TV, movies and YouTube videos from those countries and listening to their music. I also find that I pronounce French words with an accent because of my background from Northern Ontario, even though I was rarely raised around it. A good chunk of my family speaks it, but I've never had to use it in communication too much, and whenever I had to when I visited my family in Quebec, non-family would wonder whether I was a tourist or not and were shocked that I had family up there.

In 2003, my wife and I took the train to Moosonee from Cochrane.

My accent is pure Woody Allen New Yawk.

Ah, get out of town! That's the area of Northern Ontario that I'm from originally! I was born in Timmins but I have family all over that part of Ontario, and some in the neighbouring region of Quebec that's closer to Timmins than it is to Montreal (Rouyn-Noranda, Val-D'Or, Amos, La Sarre area). And yeah, I've taken that train before, in fact I've grown up around the "ONR" as we call it locally for my whole life and still know people there who jockey steering wheels for a living.

I remember back when I lived in the North, I often talked like a New Yorker and sometimes Jersey, due to the fact I watched so much Die Hard, Third Watch, Seinfeld, and other shows as a kid, and played GTA. I even called people "jagowffs" like Ofc. Bosco used to in Third Watch. After I moved to Barrie in Southern Ontario though I started using European accents when I started watching stuff from that part of the world, also from knowing people from that part of the world.

Val D'or is relatively south--but I see it get down to Minus 40 Celsius on a fairly regular basis.

Sorry to get persnickety: The "Jersey" accent is actually a New York City accent--as spoken in nearby parts of New Jersey like Hoboken, Bayonne, and Jersey City. Most people in New Jersey, to me, actually speak like Bruce Springsteen, who comes from Freehold, NJ, which is in central Jersey.

Sometimes, people from south New Jersey seem like they talk like New Yorkers--when, in actuality, they speak like Philadelphians. Philadelphians, to the untrained ear, sound quite similar to New Yorkers.

We stayed in a bed-and breakfast owned by an older French couple in Cochrane. We stayed at the Polar Bear Inn in Moosonee.

Ah, no worries. I kinda figured the two accents were related and/or the same due to the enormous amount of relations across the Hudson bridges, but wasn't accurately sure, better to doubt it and be unsure then to be wrong and get called for it. I guess it's kinda like how different British accents that border eachother sound similar to the bordering dialects and the further north you get from London you start to notice that you hear more Celtic-like accents once you get closer to Liverpool and get further north into Scotland or across the Irish Sea into Ireland?

I have Aspergers/PDD-NOS, and a lot of people think that I'm British or even Swedish although I am a born and raised Mainer. I've also gone through a couple years of Speech Therapy since I couldn't pronounce my L's or R's. Now I still can't pronounce my R's and sometimes will switch around a W for an R. Plus I tend to mumble or speak too fast too quietly for anyone to hear. However as I never knew my biological parents I can't say if it is just myself or if it's inherited (my adoptive mother is insistent that I'm part Irish, but I'm not sure I believe her.)

I'm Australian and I have a very distinct Australian accent in some situations, a normal Australian accent in others, and my family seems to think I sound "posh-English" when I say certain things.