aspies with accents that are differnt

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I've noticed a hell of a lot that alot of people with autism/aspergers tend to have different accents for some reason. I used to be surrounded by aspies a lot of the time in my old school which was a school for autistic kids and i noted that many of them had american accents for some strange reason because this is all in scotland and more recentley i seen a kid with autism who spoke in an american accent. Does anyone know the reason behind this?

They dont socialise with local kids, just stay home and watch films and shows and series made in America would be logic to me....

Everyone has diffrent accents, you can identify a swede much easier than a dane and norwegian, because they still roll the "R" most of them, ansd they have that slow-talk

Slow talk is good, especially in English. It's easier to understand!

Yes, and it's easier for ME (us) to understand swedes instead of danes, because danes speak to fast

Yeah, people always ask me where I'm from, and when I say I was born and raised in Virginia, they are baffled and they think I am joking.

They say I have a wierd accent. I have a very clear, crisp voice and I use a somewhat advanced vocabulary and very little slang.
Alot of people where I live (which is still Virginia) tend to slur their words and use alot of slang and not too many "big words."

no, beside having non local accents, some a.s people- i do it- really pick up and unwittingly use/mimic accents.
its quite embaressing.

Some guy last week thought I had a French-Canadian accent. This was probably because I was playing tunes from that region and he couldn't place my accent, rather than it actually sounding like quebecois.

But I don't think it's uncommon at all. I have always been a good audio mimic, and I think it has a lot to do with that (for me, at least).

I can sorta emulate native accents when I speak other languages but I talk normal in English besides the fact that i use big words.

I've been told I have a strange accent, but I don't know if this is connected with AS or because I lived in many different areas up until the age of 9 and therefore did not pick up any one particular accent, or developed one that was a mixture of many different ones.

I have lived in the same area since that age, though, and I think you would have expected me to develop some degree of the local accent, but I have not at all.

I think xalepax may have a point in that people subconsciously adopt accents from others around them, but that may not happen to those who don't socialize very much. I know I have picked up expressions from the TV - maybe I have accents too.

People are sometimes surprised to find out I'm from Virginia because they expect all Virginians to have Southern accents. I'm from Northern VA, and no one here has a Southern accent. We are not the South!

Most of what you hear on TV is the flat American Mid Western accent. They say Aspies speak with little inflection so maybe that's why they sound American to your ears. I notice Dutch has that same flatness and American English has a big Dutch influence.

For as long as I have ever had to deal with people...as in in work situations and whatnot...people have always commented on my strange accent. My vocal coach said I had a definite Northeast US tinge to it. People have asked me if I was from Europe or Canada...People have accused me of talking the way I do on purpose...Ever since I have been goofing around with Puppetrina, it has been hard to stop talking with her affected Southern twang..and then all the (ASish)people who hang around me and play with Puppetrina too have also started talking that way.
I just think that for some of us, our accents, for whatever reason, don't develop automatically like they might with people who are more neurotypical...or something....

Also..I do have issues with subconsciously absorbing the accents and mannerisms of people that I talk to... la lee la...

This is exactly what happened to me. I'm in Montreal Canada - born here, but people always asked where I was from. So I made a project of learning to speak like my sister-in-law, who made casual grammatical errors when speaking and small stuff like that. I learned it and nobody's asked me where I'm from since then. But I have to remember to switch back again when I attend English classes.

When I moved to Pennsylvania some people would sometimes ask where I came from
and I would say Long Island (Lawn-Guyland) and they would say I thought so....
Most Pennsylvanians say Lancaster with equal emphasis on all three syllables whereas
I was saying Lann-CASTer and everyone would wince in horror.....

Wow, Scotland... I'm from there, as you can see from my location, and I too have encountered people thinking I had an American accent, or was American.

One other guy with Asperger's living here (who actually isn't Scottish, but English) says he is always mistaken for American, and picked the accent up because he hardly ever interacted at an early age, but watched a lot of TV which had a lot of American accents. I don't think this was the case for me though.

Another guy said there was "not a big jump" between me and an American accent, especially as another big influence on the American accent is Ulster Scots, so it is not different for Scots to sound American should their accent be a bit "different".

In fact, I have just got back from two weeks in America. And while most people correctly guessed my accent was Scottish, I did have one guy who definitely thought it was a New Orleans accent.