Do people make fun of the way you talk?

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People have always made fun of the way I talk, my whole life. Today even, I took my baby to the doctor, and a nurse said we were done and asked if I was ready to go home. And I said, "Yes." and then he mimicked me saying yes and sort of giggled. I ignored it, but I wasn't trying to be funny. This happens to me all the time.

When I was a kid they did. In elementary school.

Today I said to one of my coworkers "Dude, you should invest in Starbuck's" (because she drinks it every single day). She went off on me for the word 'dude'. I picked it up from my kids, I guess. I need to remove it from my vocabulary, apparently.

Yes, people say my accent is rather posh.

I prefer strange wording. I can NOT do it, but like to do it. Instead of "I'm going home", I say "I will be tripping homewardsly." What was really funny is, way back, some of the chicks that hung around started talking like me. Cool, but creepy too.
But made fun of, no not really.

WOW! Spokane girl I was picked on in school due to the way I talked. I tend to say the wrong thing and my whole family cracks up laughing.

Is it the way you talk or your accent that people make fun of? If you moved to a region you did not grow up in then its pretty common to have people make fun of your different accent. I'm not saying its right. But I get made mocked from time to time in the west because of my southern accent. However, I notice some autistics, particularly those with Rhett's tend to speak incorrectly as in placing emphasis on the incorrect syllables and makes them sound like they are talking silly on purpose.

As for the "dude" topic. Its a terrible habit for any adult to get into especially if you work in a business environment as it makes one look very unprofessional. It also sounds nasty coming out of the mouth of women. And it sounds stupid calling females "dudes" though I hear the younger set speak this way all the time. Believe me it makes you instantly loose respect in the eyes of other adults if you are older than 25 and talk that way. Don't get in the habit because its hard to break. I do not spend time around people with bad grammar. Call me bad if you want, but I just know for myself its not good to be around those that speak terribly because as an autistic I tend to mimic things without even intending to.

No.

I have had a real problem and people would comment all the time about how I appear to have an accent. Speech nuances really don't work for me, but I am verbal. Maybe I am better alone, or around people I know well, I don't know. I certainly can understand the point of view of those who can talk but prefer another means of communication, especially writing.

I hope not.

people used to

I guess you can be happy you don't live in India or an Arabic speaking country. THERE, the idea of "I" has GENDER! So a girl can't imitate the father and a boy can't imitate the mother, lest they be met with social ridicule.

It may seem sexist, but there IS a reality to "separate but equal". Frankly, I like it. The human race wouldn't exist without either sex, and probably wouldn't be as nice anyway. But language is just another indicator. To emphasize man or brother as in:

OH MAN/BROTHER do YOU have it wrong.

is a polite way, at least in the 70s of emphasizing like people do today with swearing.

The idea of calling women DUDE or SIR though, yuck... I bring up sir because more military and scifi movies use sir for women. DUMB! I guess next they will use maam for men.

No, not really. Except when we moved to England, they made fun of my American accent. I picked up an English accent too well and couldn't do an American accent well anymore. Then when we moved back to the states for a few months staying in Tennessee with Mama and Papa while dad was getting some training, I was made fun of for my English accent in school this time. Got my American accent back, and now I can't do a very good English accent

In general people don't seem to hear me when I talk, or they have a hard time understanding me.

Though every once in a while I will mispronounce a word and people will laugh about it.

Wow, I never knew people got so upset about stuff like this. I'm from Australia so we're really laid-back about the way we talk. The only people I know who get upset about improper use of language are teachers, and even still, half the teachers don't care about improper use of words. Language is always changing, so saying a word is "wrong" is meaningless to me. I also make no distinction between formal and informal speech, because I think that can easily lead to the idea of inequality.