Copying accents

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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  • When I've been abroad and come back home I always seem to have a 'twang' of an accent.

    Slightly 'off piste' but when I was at drama school (not studying acting) I had a friend studying acting. He showed me some amazing large pieces of paper with lots of lipstick prints on it. They'd been having seminars about accents, all given a lipstick and then shown basic vowel lip shapes of varying accents and had to 'kiss' the paper whilst making these shapes. It was quite fascinating seeing the difference in mouth shapes from region to region.

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  • When I've been abroad and come back home I always seem to have a 'twang' of an accent.

    Slightly 'off piste' but when I was at drama school (not studying acting) I had a friend studying acting. He showed me some amazing large pieces of paper with lots of lipstick prints on it. They'd been having seminars about accents, all given a lipstick and then shown basic vowel lip shapes of varying accents and had to 'kiss' the paper whilst making these shapes. It was quite fascinating seeing the difference in mouth shapes from region to region.

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