asperger's and accents

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I was told, as a child, that I had an East Anglian accent (many on my dad's side of the family originate from East Anglia so it vaguely made sense). Now I seem to have a broadly West Midlands accent, kind of a diluted version of Brummie (Birmingham).

My accent is a complete mish-mash that no-one ever identifies as local. I have family from Scotland, Sussex, Notts, and West London; and I've lived in the East Midlands, Essex, and for the longest time, West Yorkshire. I involuntarily mimic other people's accents when I'm speaking to them as well, and my fascination with language means that I've always "collected" idioms, figures of speech, and local slang. My folks only really pick up on the Yorkshire twang, and that's fairly strong now, but every true Tyke can tell that I'm an "offcumden" after just a few words.

As a kid, I grew up in western New York State -- "Upstate New York," people often call it. Nowhere near the city of New York.

At age 5, I became a big ice hockey fan, and was lucky to be able to watch the hockey games on TV or listen to them on the radio. All of the announcers were Canadian, even the ones on the American broadcasts. I tuned in to so many hockey games in my early years, I picked up the announcers' accents and speech cadences, and seemed to have made them my own. Some people thought it was odd that a little American kid would go around talking like a Canadian adult just from following hockey When I was 27, I met my future wife, and during either our 2nd or 3rd date, she told me I sounded like I had a Canadian accent, so I guess I never truly lost it.

I think it is an Aspergers thing for me. There were times as an older kid where I'd spend time at my aunt and uncle's house in North Carolina. After a few hours listening to their neighbors and their kids talk, at least the ones who grew up there, I unintentionally started to adapt their speech patterns and sound more like them. When I'd go back home, I'd go back to speaking how I normally would.

I'm from a little place in thee UK called Saddleworth, its on the border of Yorkshire and Lancashire, so my accent was already a bit of a mush mash. I went to boarding school in Billinge which is between Liverpool, Wigan and St. Helens. Its no wonder my accents all over the place. A southern friend always ribs me calling me a 'posh northerner' because I technically have no accent. On the plus side, its served me well on stage as I can mimic other accents.

^^^^greetings, Tickle welcome to WP

Figured I'd dump this here for kick and giggles xD

I've found out in recent months that my accent isn't exactly Cockney or British for that matter.

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Many Canadians will insist to their dying breath that there is no such thing as a Canadian accent. Given that premise, your wife must have quite an active imagination!

She does have an active imagination, but on this subject, I don't think she and I are alone

According to my cousin who grew up and lives in Canada, there are at least two Canadian accents: the one he has, which from growing up in Toronto, Ontario is a more "stereotypical Canadian" accent, and then there's a much different one from those people that grew up in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. I admit I haven't spoke to him in great detail regarding this particular subject, but he, having grown up in Ontario, poked fun at how those "Newfies" talked and how different they sounded from other Canadians.

Some old man once said to me, "You don't sound British and you don't sound Canadian, so where did you get your accent?" I answered, "I don't know."

It is hard for me to tell my accent and I am going to guess its a combination of an Midwest/Eastern American, French, and French Canadian accent with some autism in it.

parlez vous francais?

It varies. When speaking to strangers, mine is generally a plain, enunciated urban 'American' accent in a mellow baritone. When I am around people I am well aquainted with, if I become angry/excited, or when I have a buzz (I've been told), it glides into a distinctive old New Orleans 'y'at' accent, which is most comprable to that of the Brooklyn, Queens, and Hoboken areas (of New York City, it's the Irish and German immigrant influence). Funnily enough, I live around 400 miles Northeast of New Orleans now, and the southerners usually think I'm from up North. I love saying that I'm from further south than them, they hate hearing that. Though I don't have a southern accent, I can imitate them quite well. And for what it's worth, oui, je parle francais un peu!

^^^can you imitate justin wilson?

'Ah gua-RON-tee, mon ami!

I have actually considered a Youtube showcase of simple recipes presented in a kitchen setting so as to make one's friends think that they're a gourmet chef. Throw in some simple banter 'en francois' (Il fait tres chaud, n'es pas?) for laughs and authenticity. Many of the Cajun and/or Creole recipes I know are deceptively simple (and frugal), as well as many from other schools of cooking I've picked up over the years. The hardest part is cleaning up the kitchen afterwards, lol.