Mirroring accents in autism - Unmasking my autism
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- As I learn more about what I do when I mask my autism, I am learning that I can't help myself but mirror accents!
Thank you for watching and commenting! This is a shorter and less intense video for a change!
Lol, I totally do this too.
Yay You for sharing, thank you!🙏🏼💖 I'm late identified/diagnosed & worked as a speech therapist. I completely relate to what you're saying. Sometimes it's hard for me to not reproduce sounds in words that ppl say uniquely & I just realized that's masking! I do it freely at home but I never do it in public. Thanks for the insight.💓
I wonder if it is a bit of stim as well. It feels nice sometimes to mimic a word or accent.
I’ve always done this and I’m 69 now. Not so bad when I lived in Glesca but more than a bit embarrassing when I was working in Birmingham with black people with West Indian accents. I don’t know I’m doing it until I’ve been doing it for 15 minutes or so. Even if I stop it soon creeps back. I never do it disrespectfully or to mock or even deliberately. I just love accents
By contrast I make a deliberate effort not to mimic (even though I'm tempted), as there aren't many pronounced regional dialects in my area so there is no impulse or opportunity for immersion.
That said, I still practice my second language exercises daily and do feel immediately compelled to reciprocate the dialect of any spoken material.
Very interesting Gina. I don't mirror accents now; at least I don't think I do. I do remember one incident over 40 years ago however when I was in a very distant state in the United States. I was surrounded by people with an accent that was very different from my own and I found myself mirroring that accent when I was socially overwhelmed. It was really embarrassing and I didn't understand why I did it. Do you think that it is related to echolalia or something? I do echolalia with my wife but she is pretty used to it. One time many years ago when I was in another state about 1000 miles from my home I had someone tell me what state I was from based only on my accent. Until that time I didn't realize that I even had an accent. Your video will have me thinking about accents all the rest of the day now.
That's really interesting, I've not considered it being related to echolalia, but I could see a connection there.
Maybe I'm getting confirmation bias because the subject draws attention to it, but you sounded much more Scottish than usual in this recording.
I can't tell you if I adapt my accent to people around me - if I do, I'm not aware of it. Nobody can place my accent beyond northern-ish England. Sometimes people think I sound posh. I'm not posh. I like to hear different accents and dialects and ways of speaking, and it gets me tilted when people disparage others' native speech as wrong or lesser than their own.
Haha! Maybe I am inadvertently doing a more Scottish accent! If I am, then I didn't even realise.
I pick up accents and phrases they say often as well. I get so embarrassed.
Oh yes, its incredibly cringeworthy when people realise you are mimicking them!