Accents

[chinaberry]

What's your accent? And what's your voice like? Lots of Aspies have a strange voice, like it's garbled or you have a completely different way of talking to the rest of your family.

I don't know how I got my accent. I have a strangeish voice, it's quite deep and I don't know, there's just something weird to it. Accent is southern toffee public school, my mum has an unmistakeable French accent, my dad's is RP+Dutch. I used to roughen it up at school because people were getting at me for being 'posh'. Silly people. I'd rather talk properly. I'm sillier for trying to change how I talked for them. But sometimes you just want a respite...

 

[chinaberry]

quoted by mistake!

 

[smithgirl656]

there is a lot of words that i say differently than the rest of my family and i tend to use bigger words. also there are a lot of word i find disgusting so i won't say them

 

[chinaberry]

I was the quintessential little professor when I was little, but I toned it down because of school and stuff. Besides my parents use 'big words' too, so yeah.

 

[chinaberry]

And I completely get what you say about some words being disgusting.

 

[alyssa_j_c]

The most noticeable characteristic about the way I talk is that I'm monotone. I don't put much inflection in anything I say, even when I'm excited, angry, etc. Also, I accent certain words that most people from my region don't. Generally, when I use an accent on a word, it's a southern drawl. I have no idea why I do it. I've kind of taken more notice since people would point it out, so I don't do that one quite as much as I used to. The monotone, however, is permanent.

 

[superboyian]

I can't stand my accent, i well and truly can't but at the same time love it and i sound so different from a lot of people i know, its just weird.
I seem to sound good enough to fit in Eastenders in that case. :lol:

 

[Calvert]

@Chair from that voice clip you posted, I would say you sound American to me. You're accent is cool.

@superboyian I think you're accent is good.

As for myself, I'm not sure if I like my accent or not. Although I think it's more to do with the fact that my voice is deep and I can have problems speaking clearly.

 

[umbrellabeach]

I just have a boring old American accent. I don't know if my voice is strange but it's definitely soft; people have told me so before. I do talk differently from the rest of my family too, because I'm always careful to use proper grammar (which very few people around here use, much to my annoyance) and I finish my sentences instead of trailing off in the middle of them like some people tend to do.

 

[krisi]

I speak with a midwstern American dialect--you can tell where I'm from by some of the words I use, for example: soda and bubbler. Some of my idiosyncratic forms are "shiny" for cool, and "can I keep you" for "I love you". I tend to have inappropriate prosody that doesn't always match my emotions or just how you're supposed to say things--but I tend to have too much inflection rather than monotony.

 

[Sofi]

I am from Scotland but I definitely don't have a Scottish accent. I am told I talk in a monotone, emotionless voice and high pitched which is inappropriate sometimes I guess. I also talk slow and sometimes I have delayed response - if someone asks me question I might not verbally reply until maybe 15 minutes later. Also i have been told i'm hard to understand sometimes.

 

[Sean2222]

People have always had problems hearing me. And will always say "what what what" as if they are deaf when they aren't. I can't talk any louder or it will hurt my ears or mes sup my voice so sometimes you have to get closer to them so they will hear you. But it is frustrating.
And I've heard it's because of my audio processing issues that I don't modulate voice properly, but yet I can hear myself just fine

-sean-