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Copying accents

Pheobebuffay

I have this really annoying habit. I feel like I don’t have my own accent, I just copy the accent of whoever I’m speaking to at the time. I am conscious of myself doing it and I try to stop myself but I just can’t! Does anyone else do this? Is it an autism thing? 

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  • I enjoy speaking in other accents.  I acknowledge my Yorkshire accent, but always think other accents sound better, especially a Liverpool or Birmingham accent.  I think for me it goes a little further, and it's almost acting out a character, so I'll often link the accent with a film or tv character, or sportsperson and I'll constantly repeat the lines from a film or show, in the accent that I've heard them say.

    I think I use it as comfort, and also as escapism, (possibly from myself).  When I have a speech to do, which fortunately is quite rare, I contemplate doing it in a different accent.  I haven't taken it to that stage yet.

    It also neatly aligns with repetition, which I seem to need, and I'll constantly repeat a phrase in an accent on an ongoing basis.  I've not repeated an accent in front of someone, i.e. played their accent back to them, but clearly a similar, if not the same kind of activity going on.

    I usually do this when at home and I'm comfortable to be me, (i.e. in front of my wife).  I wouldn't do it in the outside world, but of course that's the arena where I then struggle. 

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  • I enjoy speaking in other accents.  I acknowledge my Yorkshire accent, but always think other accents sound better, especially a Liverpool or Birmingham accent.  I think for me it goes a little further, and it's almost acting out a character, so I'll often link the accent with a film or tv character, or sportsperson and I'll constantly repeat the lines from a film or show, in the accent that I've heard them say.

    I think I use it as comfort, and also as escapism, (possibly from myself).  When I have a speech to do, which fortunately is quite rare, I contemplate doing it in a different accent.  I haven't taken it to that stage yet.

    It also neatly aligns with repetition, which I seem to need, and I'll constantly repeat a phrase in an accent on an ongoing basis.  I've not repeated an accent in front of someone, i.e. played their accent back to them, but clearly a similar, if not the same kind of activity going on.

    I usually do this when at home and I'm comfortable to be me, (i.e. in front of my wife).  I wouldn't do it in the outside world, but of course that's the arena where I then struggle. 

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