Do you have a regional accent?

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Okay, so I've heard that sometimes Aspies don't take on their native dialect. This seems to be the case for me. I'm from East Tennessee, which is prime hillbilly country, and I've lived there my whole life. My family, particularly my father's side, have very heavy accents. In school, most of the other kids had Southern accents. So, you would logically assume that I would adopt this way of speaking, but I haven't. Occasionally, I will lapse into a little bit of a drawl, but usually I just sound like a generic American, albeit more monotone. Someone actually once asked me if I was from Minnesota when they heard my voice, which I thought was rather strange.

Is this really an AS thing or is it just an idiosyncrasy of mine? Anyone else like this? Just curious. I think it's a rather interesting thing.

i have a typical western PA (where i'm from) bright vowels dialect. when i lived in cinci, i sometimes spoke in a southern accent to people with a southern accent.

Nah. It is the rest of y'all speaking strangely.

Hehe. Actually, I have had people who aren't from Utah say that I do have a "mountain" accent.

Don't think I do either. A couple of weeks ago I met someone local, and they asked me where I was from because apparently I have an accent other than the local one.

I live in Birmingham, UK. We have the "Brumie" accent. It's absolutely awful. But I've been told by many people from other locations that I don't have an accent ... thankfully.

I have a heavy accent which is native to many people in my area. However, I can adopt any accent I want. I know a few. Right now, I'm trying to switch over to General American.

Ummm, I was born and brought up in the Boston area, and moved back here 9 years ago. Need you ask?

Born and raised in Kansas. I've been told by my parents that I had quite the Suhthun accent when I was yunguh, yunnerstand, but it's faded with age.

And yet when I lived in Minnesota for about a year, every damn person was commenting on my "southern twang" and asking me where I was from.

I think I have a generic North American accent.

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I did not pick up the regional accent of my childhood town (which is an Eastern Noord-Brabant accent), but that might also be because my mother does not speak with the accent. I've always spoken in a neutral Standard Dutch accent. I can't even properly mimic Brabant speech, it always sounds fake when I try it.

Even tho I've been in the Atlanta area for a while I still have a New Jersey/New York accent which amazes friends and family whom are still in Jersey because they somehow expect me to speak with a southern drawl when I call/talk with them.

I had speech therapy when I was eight and they wisely made me talk like a tof. When I got back to the council estate I was getting bullied because everyone thought I was a snob.

My accent tends to change a lot because it adapts to whomever I am speaking to or if I am watching a movie or listening to music. I tend to pick up whatever I hear and imitate it.

I'm from Oregon and I don't speak with an accent.