How would YOU classify my accent? ( a much better example)

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My goal is to live long enough (I feel like not living a lot, not related to AS directly, I have chronic depression) to be rid of it entirely. Just to shake the dirt of the South off my shoes so to speak.

People don't notice mine. It's just not that obvious anymore. They hear a bit of Eastern seaboard. And when I say Maryland they always agree. I think either people are stupid or....I'm just about ready to slit my throat.

When people hear an accent they are not familiar with, they will say that you have none (unless it is REALLY heavy). The Eastern seaboard is actually very close to accent neutral too. So people, if familiar with it, can pick it out, but the rest will not be able to. It is a hit or miss thing here.

And yes, people are stupid.

Yeah, whatever. I'm really sorry I EVER asked. I'm to the point where I'd rather not speak ever again.

In a perfect world there'd be no variance in accent to embarrass, we'd all sound like we were from Lansing.

Accents are not bad. They are also not that embarrasing. Sure people might ask you where you are from, but that gives you a question to ask them. That can lead into a conversation! Then that conversation can lead to a friend! But some people find people with accents to be more attractive than people with them.

Maybe for you. Mine is an embarrassing link to a past that I don't want to have had and really don't want to talk about. I'd far rather talk about my time in Indiana or my life now than anything that came before. I was severely abused for most of my life and my abuser is a native of the South and well, we lived there. I watch children here and they are leading the kind of life I would have liked to have had. I've had many conversations that had nothing to do with that place and made friends who had no idea where I was coming from (I do mention MD because it was my birthplace and the home of my beloved grandmother and I occasionally let a 'warsh' slip). Part of reducing my pain has been my assimilation into a culture that I understand, I was never a real Southerner...I picked up the accent that was it. I consider myself a Michigander.