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

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Not only do I not have a local accent (or at least not much of one), my lack thereof has played a major role in the number of times other people have accused me of being "uppity" or conceited. I have a cousin I grew up with who to this day believes I talk the way I do for that reason.

Locally, people think that I don't have an accent, or the less perceptive ones think I have an English accent. However, when I travel outside my home state, someone will occasionally pick up on my regional accent.

I don't see the connection between accents and ass, actually. The way you speak is more of an cultural thing i think. And you don't only get the influence on the people who raise you. So i don't think that when you don't speak with the same accent as your household/village/city/family or whatever, that it's ass related. I think it's more individual and sometimes based on experience. Like in the case of when you got speak-lessons as a child. My husband did when he was young (he's NT), and he speaks a little bit different than his parents. But i don't know its because he got those lessons, or because his parents came from the north of the country (The Netherlands) were they speak totally different than here in the south, but they moved before he was born, so he got the influences of the south and of his parents. I think he created his own kind of accent, because people of the south, consider him as a 'northie' because he speaks very general civilized Dutch. But people in the north mostly think he's speaking with a really south accent. You really can hear the difference when several people with all the accents that are here in our country speak. It depends on the place he is, and which people are surrounding him.

What i do think is maybe more ass related, is the fact that i think people with ass are maybe al little bit better and faster in copying different accents. Because copying people is what we mostly do, and we become good at it i guess. Maybe not for all the aspies out here, but if i look to myself, i sure do!

Contrary to most people on here, I seem to fit in with the regional accent, mostly because I don't really notice one and it's not outside my comfort zone as an aspie.

I've been told I "have no accent" by one person. Another person thought I was from New York, even though I've lived in California my entire life. Make of that what you will.

people tell me I talk like a pothead

i've been told I don't have a California accent even though I grew up there.

Sometimes I accidently talk like a little girl too.

I totally lack a regional accent, i'm a french speaker and I live in an area with a marked local accent; I always used "parisian slang" and expressions all my life without even realizing it.

I live in the southern U.S, and I've had people comment on my lack of an accent quite frequently.

I haven't experienced much of a difference between my accent and that of other people. Different inflection, sure. My accent is what they call a "mainstream" or "general" American accent (basically, the accent that you see/hear on TV and movies and that actors try to emulate), which I think is becoming more common overall throughout the US as it becomes less regionalized. Even when I went to college in the south, I didn't really run into a lot of people with southern accents.

I actually think that, at least in the U.S., that accents are becoming less and less pronounced with younger generations. This could be due to the fact that people move around so much between regions.

People frequently ask me where I'm from, and refuse to believe I've always lived in the state. Or if they do, they ask where my parents are from (both from the US, father from the state).

It's not infrequent to be asked if I'm from Europe, or from England in particular.

How I speak people can't figure out.

Apparently "speech impediment + a lot of speech therapy + being from Massachusetts = being from Europe"