Syd_Barrett_50_Cal t1_irta307 wrote on October 10, 2022 at 9:36 PM

Reply to comment by the-magnificunt in TIL about the foreign accent syndrome (FAS), which is a speech disorder that causes a sudden change to speech so that a native speaker is perceived to speak with a “foreign” accent. FAS is usually caused by damage to the brain from a traumatic injury or a stroke. by Imaginary_Emu3462

Oh god yeah I have ADHD and definitely do this. Back around 10 years ago I became internet friends with a bunch of British dudes and would play games with them pretty frequently, like 6+ hours a day throughout the summer. Eventually one of my non-British friends started playing with us and nearly died laughing when he first joined the Skype call. Apparently I had unconsciously started picking up their accents on several words. I still do it to this day with any accent that surrounds me, at this point I don’t even know what my “normal” accent is supposed to be. I’ve moved around so frequently and been around so many accents that it’s a combination of “generic American midwestern white guy”, “generic urban black dude”, “generic southern white guy”, “generic Ontario Canadian”, mixed with a hint of “generic Latino dude”. I need to stay put for a few years or else I’m gonna start sounding like Andrew Tate or Jared Diamond or something.