Annoying voices

Are you irritated by some accents/voice intonations? I think I have posted before about this, but I have an extreme aversion to 'up-talk' or the high-rise terminal (HRT). Teenagers, particularly girls, speak like this a lot, but so do many 20 and 30 somethings now. Every statement is spoken as if it were a question, giving off an air of uncertainty, as if they expect you to disagree with them. As someone with Aspergers, I like certainty and formal speech, but up-talk leaves me feeling confused and unclear. I get stressed when people talk like this, and end up not believing what they say, because it is so vague. I understand that language and accents change, but I can't help opposing up-talk. It goes against the way my brain is wired: certainty is replaced by endless questions, which are not meant to be questions.

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  • sorry if anyone is insulted by my personal description of how I experience different accents, theres no insult intended to anyone, I just don't like/understand why people communicate verbally in certain ways that to me seem unnecessary/exagerrated/contrived - such as raising your voice, shouting, speaking fast.

    Welsh does not mean the language or the people - it just means the way Welsh people verbally talk, I don't like the way the tone goes up and up and up the longer a sentence goes on...

    Someone Welsh said - "I went to the supermarket to buy some milk but when I got there it was closed so I had to walk all the way to the corner shop" -  every word got louder and higher - by the time they got to the words 'corner shop' it sounded to me like they were almost shrieking - it just feels so unneccessary. I want to avoid it, as other accents as well - simply because Ifeel like people are arguing/in a panic or a hurry or there is a problem, it makes me feel anxious thats all, I want to avoid anxiety so therefore I want to get away from the accent.

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  • sorry if anyone is insulted by my personal description of how I experience different accents, theres no insult intended to anyone, I just don't like/understand why people communicate verbally in certain ways that to me seem unnecessary/exagerrated/contrived - such as raising your voice, shouting, speaking fast.

    Welsh does not mean the language or the people - it just means the way Welsh people verbally talk, I don't like the way the tone goes up and up and up the longer a sentence goes on...

    Someone Welsh said - "I went to the supermarket to buy some milk but when I got there it was closed so I had to walk all the way to the corner shop" -  every word got louder and higher - by the time they got to the words 'corner shop' it sounded to me like they were almost shrieking - it just feels so unneccessary. I want to avoid it, as other accents as well - simply because Ifeel like people are arguing/in a panic or a hurry or there is a problem, it makes me feel anxious thats all, I want to avoid anxiety so therefore I want to get away from the accent.

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