Inner voice accent

[DogwoodTree]

My understanding is that this is fairly common among aspies, so hopefully no one will think I'm insane, lol.

I carry on conversations in my head with other people. I know these "voices" aren't real entities...just my own imagination. So it's not a schizophrenia kind of thing. But I have imaginary conversations with other people, or with myself.

So, getting to my question. Sometimes the voice that represents my thoughts takes on the foreign accent of someone I've listened to recently, like if I've been watching an Australian on YouTube or something, then I start hearing my voice with that accent, or even hearing the other person's voice (like...it could be a male voice or a really high-pitched female voice or something) whenever I think verbal thoughts. I'm not always thinking verbally--I think in pictures a lot. But the verbal thoughts are more like I'm mentally talking to myself.

Does this happen to anyone else? It's like that accent gets stuck in my head, and even my thoughts are affected. Does this make any sense at all?

 

[Beverly]

I take it one step further and think in foreign languages even though I mentally answer myself in English if I've been exposed to a language I speak recently. Most often I find myself thinking in Spanish but, sometimes other languages I know.

Get me chatting with my UK friends and, both my inner and audible voices will happily take on the prevailing accent of the day LOL, or two of them if I'm keeping mixed accent company. (I also picture the words spelled as the are in the UK rather than American when I pick up UK accents.)

 

[Progster]

I also have a mixture of images and thoughts in my head - first the picture comes, then the thought. I sometimes conduct dialogues - I think it's a way of preparing myself for an upcoming conversation, or processing and understanding a previous conversation. I'll have to analyse this a bit more, but I don't think my own inner voice has an accent, it just sounds how it does when I speak. I don't speak with an accent normally, but I do pick up other people's accents if I talk to them a lot. Other people's voices in my head have accents, though.

I take it one step further and think in foreign languages even though I mentally answer myself in English if I've been exposed to a language I speak recently. Most often I find myself thinking in Spanish but, sometimes other languages I know.

Get me chatting with my UK friends and, both my inner and audible voices will happily take on the prevailing accent of the day LOL, or two of them if I'm keeping mixed accent company. (I also picture the words spelled as the are in the UK rather than American when I pick up UK accents.)

I think in foreign languages, too. Which other languages do you know apart from Spanish?

 

[Beverly]

Spanish, Dutch, Salish, Chinese, German and, I'm currently learning Urdu and Arabic. Salish is a Native American language so not common but, I am half Salish and, very few of the tribe are doing anything to preserve the language and oral history of the tribe so, I wanted to learn what should have been my second mother tongue.

 

[Jimbo]

I love to hear the Cherokee and Lumbee Indians talk where I live. They have a very distinct accent.

Spanish, Dutch, Salish, Chinese, German and, I'm currently learning Urdu and Arabic. Salish is a Native American language so not common but, I am half Salish and, very few of the tribe are doing anything to preserve the language and oral history of the tribe so, I wanted to learn what should have been my second mother tongue.

 

[Southern Discomfort]

Yeah that voice can change temporarily for me depending on what I've been doing. I've had to change to the voice of Bill Bailey for a few hours once or twice. That was fun.

 

[On the Inside]

Yes, I don't think I do it consciously really, so I can't give any examples. But like you, I will pick up someone's manner of speaking or accent as the "other" in my dialogues with myself. Sometimes, "they" even have catch phrases, that I will spontaneously speak out loud.

 

[artfull dodger]

Since I like trains from the UK, along with being a major fan of Dr. Who, my inner voice speaks with a mostly British accent. Occasionaly I will shift to a Austian/German accent when I am on a German/Austrian train kick. Mike