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Autism and regional accents

MM

Hi,

Has anyone else noticed that people with Autism seem not to have strong regional accents?

  • Hi I find this thread extremely intreasting I have autism I was born bread and live still in Liverpool I don't have an accent really at all my family have very broad Liverpool Scouse accents especially my mum and sister but no I can't do accents lol

  • I'm curious about this. I know people who do copy accents, I do it a little myself but not losing my own underlying regional.  But it must be a critical issue whether it is just accents or mannerisms. Perhaps attention to spoken detail helps pick up the accent. Poor non-verbal recognition means we shouldn't pick up mannerisms? Or maybe we do in the process of learning how to present non-verbal, by a bit of acting.

    Hence I might venture to suggest there might be an interesting experiment here - whether people who copy accents copy mannerisms too? Or whether mannerisms are entirely separate?

    Or am I making no sense? ......... again

  • i'm the same, my friend has a very northern accent n i always pick it up from her even after a day with her (she goes away from where i live alot) i know this because other people at my work have noticed and pointed it out to me. i even speak like it in front of her sometimes, she doesnt mind but i do apologise coz i feel i'm copying her essentially but un-intentionally.

  • I have a tendency to pick up the accents of people I'm with as well, much to the embarassment of my parents when I was a child.

  • i should have developed a strong bristolian accent, but i didn't. also i enjoy imitating accents and used to practice them, i have accent skills but cannot do impressions.

    i have been complimented on the clarity of my english speech by many people from overseas, deaf people and others with communication difficulties.

    immitating gave me a very good singing voice

    i do not enjoy using my voice for talking

  • lol my brother has AS an he grew up in Liverpool. When the family upped sticks to Whitby, North Yorkshire, he immediately developed a strong Yorkshire twang!

  • I have 'Wandering Accent Syndrome' myself, meaning that I pick up the accent of whoever I'm talking to. A little embarrassing sometimes as it can seem like I'm mocking them when I'm really not at all. It also tends to mean that people think I'm American when I'm out and about with my American partner, although I'm actually a London girl living in the South West.

    On the flip side, a good friend of mine with more prominent AS than I have actually has an extremely strong and unwavering Bristol accent.