Does anyone else imitate accents and other forms of speech?

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I often do it quite subconciously, which can be embarrassing when talking to someone with an accent. Also if I am relating back something that someone said (with an accent) I will repeat their spoken words in their accent.

When I worked at Greek restaurants I would pick up a Greek accent, completely involuntarily. People thought I was making fun of them.

Yes. When I watch something from England, I imitate the accent, sometimes not knowing I'm doing it.

I tend to imitate ways of speaking more than accents, but they're both pretty easy for me to do. Favourites of mine include Dr Cox (elongated words, sarcasm), Eddie Izzard (erm), and Mark Hamill's Joker (jolly psycho). The only thing about my voice that folks copied was the monotone.

Accents are one of my favorite things to imitate and I do it both consciously and unconsciously. I am especially awful after an extended run of The Simpsons as I'll imitate Willy, Henry Kissenger, Rainier Wolfcastle, Richard Nixon, Rabbi Krustofski, and Mayor Quimby in quick succession and do their accents for hours afterwards. When I was in elementary school, I'd unconsciously have a thick British accent when I had to speak in front of the class.

only I mimic a lot by accident - afraid people think I am making fun of them.

I'm not sure if I do anymore, but I definitely did this when I was younger. Could be embarrassing, because I wouldn't realize it at first. My mom does or did this too.

I couldn't pick either poll option, because I don't always do it, but probably still might in the right situation.



I think they can-at least to someone from the U.S. I've heard some who sound "American" (midwestern U.S.), and some who sound very British to me-although maybe more of them are starting to sound like us? Or maybe it depends on where they're from? And of course some of them sound French too.

I am so bad about this, that it can make people uncomfortable or annoyed. I have to make a mental effort not to mimic accents or phrases, otherwise people get creeped out by it.

I swear I should become a character voice actor.

I do, and it's gotten me in trouble at times.

Once, an English guy came up to me and asked me a question. I answered him in an English accent, and he looked at me all offended, like I was making fun of him intentionally, then he stormed off.

I think that this might be fairly common among people on the spectrum as a manifestation of echolalia (which is usually the repetition of what other people have said, but I don't see why it wouldn't carry over into how they've said it as well).

I do, often. Very often in fact. Different kinds of accents I like to mimick. I used to be good at doing a former UK HoC Speaker's voice. I do all different kinds, sometimes just to take the mick out of a dialect I hate.

My mom's said that a million times over the years. I don't know that I'm as good as I was, since I don't practice and obviously have never had any training, but I used to do tons of voices, used to be able to imitate them, etc. I think I've gone downhill though.

I probably actually would be really, really good at that, if someone wants to magically scoop me up and hire me as a voice actor

Sometimes after I've watched a movie or a TV show for a long period of time, I talk like one of the characters for a little while afterward.

Always. Since i was a child. And it was always very therapeutic for me too. I used to talk very strangely as a child. I would talk like a valley girl, and throw the word "like" before everything i said, and it caused me a lot of ostracization as a child. I then started talking like Billy Connolly from "Head of the Class", and it helped me clear my speech pathology tics and make new sentence formations. It's sort of funny now, sometimes when i talk, i accendently stumble on some of my old accents from childhood. People always laugh. Goodtimes. Yeah.