Do you lack a "regional accent" because of A.S

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This is really fascinating. I know of Aspies such as many on this board who speak in a dialect foreign to their region. I can think of one I met two weeks ago in particular. (Poor fellow, he clearly had no idea how Aspie-ish he was -- poor eye-contact and a total conversational boor....) Anyway, then there are others such as myself who can "act" and who can fit into any dialect in which they live. I've lived in 10 states including the deep South, and I've always been able to pass for a local.

yes Im from Oregon,but I have a ''southern'' like accent.

Interesting. It was a discussion about my lack of regional accent that led someone to point me toward this site, and started me along the path to realization...

People have had trouble placing where I'm from just by my accent.

I have what I call a 'news man' accent, in that I copied it from watching the news with my parents on tv when I was young.
It's fairly generic American.

I'm not sure if that's a result of AS or just me being me.
Frankly it's such part of how I perceive and interact with the world it's as much a part of me as anything else, I suppose.

These days it's probably fairly easy to tell I'm from Cali if you talk to me enough because I've picked up some of the local idiom since I've been living here a long time.

My mom has a German accent, my dad has a.... idk, not southern, but maybe a Georgia accent? He's Alabamian though, but it's not southern like redneck southern. Mine is just......... "flat?" maybe, I suppose.

Oh my...... I just realize this. My sisters' voices sound like my dad's voice a little bit, but I don't sound southern like the people around me, I don't sound German like my mom, and I don't sound like my dad.

I never noticed this before. Do you think it is because of Asperger's??? How

I was born and lived for five years in England, and when I was young I used to have a very thick London accent. My family moved to the US when I was five or six and I had lost the accent by the time I was seven. I sound entirely American now, which I find disappointing as I'm proud of my European heritage, but no one can tell it from the way I speak.

The accents in the UK vary much more quickly than those in North America. Indeed as Salkin says there is noticeably higher not lower variation in accents within European countries relative to US and Canada.

I've been told that I use received pronounciation, or that I have a "cut glass" or "BBC English" accent, rather than speaking with a regional accent. This isn't something I've deliberately cultivated (although people have accused me of trying to sound posh).

I find it very hard to vary my voice, in order to "put on" an accent or do an impression.

Although I can only speak English fluently, whenever I have tried to speak French native speakers tell me I have a PERFECT accent and that would explain why I had such a hard job convincing everyone in Quebec my French was so poor. I used to live in Newfoundland and had a much smaller Newfoundland accent than most (for Europeans, it's very similar to an Irish accent).

Be thankful lol, that's the industry standard of speaking. People will actually go and take speech classes to get that type of GA type accent if they're working in the entertainment industry.

When I was ten my family moved to Montgomery, Alabama. 1952 that was... 61 years ago. People's accents were very strong back then because there was no TV... people didn't often get to even hear people's accents from other parts of the country. I was in the 4th grade, everyone despised me because I was a "Yankee." Three years later we moved to Denver, Colorado and I went to a downtown school. This was the 7th grade. Not only did people despise me because I was a Southerner with a Southern drawl. I was also in a fight almost everyday. I was thrown off the school bus, and had to take the city bus to and from school. And I was really tormented (beat up) waiting for the bus after school. Back then getting bullied and into fights was "a part of growing up."

It certainly is different now. At least where I am, getting beat up in school does not seem to be very common at all. Bullies aren't the same as what I see on TV shows from times other than now. It's less directly physical, and it is very strange. Another thing that does not ever seem to happen that I see on TV shows from times other than now is kids chanting something such as "She has glasses, she has glasses." I never hear anybody chanting anything ever. I never see people steal people's lunch money, and I really don't ever witness anything like it. It's so different.
My mom always questions me about if certain kids are doing things like that to me, and it has never happened to me or anything like it. It's different stuff.

Back in those days... it was right after WW2, the world thought that bullying was a part of life. It never occurred to me to tell my parents that I was getting beaten up. They would have said, "Why?" Plus, my father was a career military. He was so disappointed in me... he gave me plenty of licks himself... until I was 19 he was thumping me.

agree with this. far more accents in the UK and the variation in them can be quite extreme to the point that people at one end of the country find it pretty hard to understand people from the other

When you factor in the size and population of the U.S I really don't see you having many accents at all really compared to most countries

Within one county (Yorkshire has quite a number) or one city there can be a fair few different ones.

Scotland has a lot of different and varying accents

Yes, and Australia has hardly any regional variation in accent. In general I cannot pick the state of other Australians by their accent - not even Western Australia (3000 KM away).

My accent is pretty neutral and somehow that makes me well spoken. I don't know how that's defined but that used to be one of those things that adults found endearing when I was a child but is probably annoying now. I used to frequently be mistaken for being English as my sentence structure can be quite formal at times. I think the combination of the way I speak with how I sound leads to something closer to RP than anything else. But it's not RP! It sounds nothing like either of my parents' accents or the accent in the area where I went to school.
It's confusing. I wish I knew someone who is interested in real life because I would love to have a conversation about this sometime.