aspergers accent

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I have a Scottish accent, although people usually place my accent as a Highlands accent when in fact I am from Edinburgh. The Highlands accent is usually a little less harsh than the city one. I do use long words, but my accent means I'm not usually considered posh even though I do speak properly most of the time. I try and say 'don't' instead of 'dinnae' and 'can't' instead of 'cannae' for instance. Sometimes if I'm with someone from my home city I get really broad.

Sometimes when I'm around someone who speaks English as a second language, their accent rubs off on me and then I start to speak more with their accent. I stayed with my Thai friend for like two weeks and noticed it.

I have always been told I speak in a CD accent and that it is wierd because I had never in my childhood been exposed to that culture.

Generally speaking however I have a tendency to talk like the people around me do. Around a southerner I will have a southern drawl, around a seattlite I will talk quickly, jersey, jersey, etc, etc.

I even do that in spanish.

I've had people ask if I was a foreigner before, just because of the way I talk or act. I've also had people ask if I was British, apparently I have a slight Britishy sounding voice sometimes without knowing it. People overall said I have a good voice, though some people say I sound like a television announcer when talking. Yay.

Generally my interactions with people go something like this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oXCm4N3J_M[/youtube]

i don't have this Aspie accent. I have the common ''cockney'' accent.

People often ask me if I'm British. I tend to assume this has to do with having gone through so much speech therapy.

I have noticed that people who are more severely affected by aspergers than myself tend to have a typical "aspie accent". Well they do in England in my humble experiences anyway. There was a man who studies in my lectures who has a fascination with species and couldn't contain himself when ever a species would be shown on the lecture slides. His accent is very different to how most people would generally speak. I've also met other people who have AS and also have a very similar accent so I can definitely see what the OP is saying.
Do I have an accent? Not really an aspie accent. Although everyone always says my voice is extremely distinctive. I struggle to form words properly and tend to slur. I used to have speech therapy for it to no avail. Besides this I have a very scouse accent. I wish I didn't have any accent though. Or atleast a nice generic British posh accent rather than a regional northern accent. Generic posh accents are just lovely.

I used to spend most of my day every day speaking German (my work environment was 100% in German) - it did a lot to degrade my accent in English, at least for the time I had that job. I also worked with kids, and when they spoke to me in English I'd have to respond to them in German, so when I'd get off of work and have someone talk to me in English, I'd often respond in German.

I do have an "autist" accent though - just strange word emphasis, strange voice tones, and a decent amount of gibberish and words that, unless you know me well, have no meaning. There are also times where I say the same word over and over but have multiple meanings. Often it's nonsense words, for example "darp darp darp darp darp darp" or "dur dur dur dur dur dur" or something like that. I'll also roll R's and things like that with it sometimes, and hold the rolled R.

That's me, but I also throw in speaking fast and mumbling so I have to repeat everything I say!

I have always been told I sound like I'm on drugs. I've been told I sound like a drunk robot as well... but not like Bender from Futurama. In fact, that is how I came up with my user name (always being compared to a mechatronic entity).

Speech therapy as a child has resulted in my speaking with a drawl, and just a bit of a lisp, but at least I'm (mostly) comprehensible. Is an 'aspie accent' the result of a precise way of speaking? I'm not sure I understand what this means.

no i don't ,

whats speak and spell anyways

For a long while I was very monotone, possibly from birth until I got out of the Kevin and Perry teenage phase. Back home people cotton on that I'm "not from around here." I live in the Pennines and was born in Chester, and learnt to speak in a place near Slough (all English areas, fyi). By the time I came up here I probably had a fair cock-a-nee accent ("hiww" instead of "hill," etc). Now it's half-Yorkshire half-northern RP really. At university, where most people seem to have neutralised accents, I'm seen as some sort of Yorkshire ambassador. I'd love an undiluted local accent, but the easiest accent for any Brit to feign is the featureless estuary accent, and there's no point in trying to feign unique, timeless regional accents. Back home I often get "posh," but recently got "scouse" from someone. For all my efforts I struggle to even construct good sentences in real life though. I suppose it's a bit unique until I hear it back being recorded.

I have an accent. I have a New York accent even though I have never been to New York. My dad is from there though. My New York accent was so bad in the olden days (years ago during schooling) I had to take speech therapy because I couldn't make some sounds correctly. Especially my "R's" Now I am much better than then. Although I don't have a vocabulary as extensive as other people on the spectrum. In fact mine is well below what its supposed to be. Just remember I am 29 years young.

I have absolutely no smart people accent. If you want to know how I sound, you should call me. I don't promise that you can understand me but I bet you'll hang up the phone with a hankering for black eyed peas and fried cornbread.

I often get told I have a new zealander accent
Unless I'm talking about my special interest then I can get robot like