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I know people with aspergers

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I know poeple with aspergers and rather than aske them as I know they get upset easily, I thought I would ask on this forum, 'why do some people with aspergers sound american when they are not american'?

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  • People can pick up accents & odd vocabulary from all sorts of places, maybe the ones you know just watched far too much American television.

    I'm from Lancashire, but my accent/vocabulary has always had bits of everything. When I was a kid (in the 1970s), I definitely watched far too much television, but most of it was British & I was particularly fond of science programs like Horizon. Since then I have been to University in Scotland & moved around the UK quite a bit for work, so my accent is now even more cryptic than ever.

    I have noticed that accent/vocabulary often seems to be a tribal thing within certain groups of people (e.g that awful obession with saying 'innit' at the end of every sentence), but since many of us have never really felt a part of any particular 'Tribe', maybe people on the spectrum just don't feel as much need to sound like everybody else & choose their own individual accents.

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  • People can pick up accents & odd vocabulary from all sorts of places, maybe the ones you know just watched far too much American television.

    I'm from Lancashire, but my accent/vocabulary has always had bits of everything. When I was a kid (in the 1970s), I definitely watched far too much television, but most of it was British & I was particularly fond of science programs like Horizon. Since then I have been to University in Scotland & moved around the UK quite a bit for work, so my accent is now even more cryptic than ever.

    I have noticed that accent/vocabulary often seems to be a tribal thing within certain groups of people (e.g that awful obession with saying 'innit' at the end of every sentence), but since many of us have never really felt a part of any particular 'Tribe', maybe people on the spectrum just don't feel as much need to sound like everybody else & choose their own individual accents.

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