Nice accent... is that real??

I think that this accent thing is really just part and parcel of the disorder. Cluster Bs notoriously mirror those who provide supply while they are idealizing them. It also is part of their shallowness or inner emptiness. They don't really have a "self" and they assume the external trappings of the people who they feed off of to not only fit in with the crowd but to define themselves. My ExN was born and raised in the Midwest. He moved to Boston when he went to college. He purposely set out to lose his Midwesternness including his "accent". BTW he was from the state who has an "accent" that newscasters learn because it is so "generic". At any rate - he didn't purposely adopt a Beantown accent but more of a southern New England accent (I'm from CT and he now says words like me). I found that to be a little odd when he told me the story. I would never consciously try to adopt the accent of somewhere else. It was one of those little red flags that I felt but ignored. Then, he told me another weird one that I should have paid a little more attention to. He said that after he dumped his fiance, he purposely devised a new persona. He grew a ponytail in, what he called, a "sociological experiment." Because he said before he had it, he was bland. And that people treated him differently, more respectfully, after he had a ponytail, started dressing in all black, and wearing a heavy silver chain bracelet and necklace. He said that the New England accent and new style of dressing gave him power and made people pay attention to him. Weird. I mean, I get devising your own style and all that. But to do it consciously, as an experiment to see how others will treat you as opposed to doing it because it was your way of expressing yourself, seems a bit odd. And, too bad for him because - it's one thing to be 25 with thick hair and a ponytail, dressed in black, with chains and a ciggie hanging out of your mouth. There's a little scary sexiness there I guess. But when you're 37 and have a pretty distinct receding hairline (the further back the hairline goes, the longer the ponytail in back gets ... ewwww), the bad-boy look is not only sophmoric but pretty laughable. Anyway - this accent changing crap doesn't surprise me at all. It's all part and parcel of the inner void these jerks have.

The ex-Psych professor was born in Berkeley... but he moved to Massachusetts when he was 7. He had a weird accent. He didn't really sound like a New Englander. (I've heard the Bostonian accent in Boston, thanks to my sister living there) He could be very low, or sound very effeminate. The only person whose accent remotely like his was my former Narc boss, who had a lisp and definitely sounded effeminate. I could've mistaken the two on the phone. The ex-P sounded very girly. Some speculated he was aping me... no wonder he D&D'd me for a butch girlfriend.

Oh dear lord I think I'm a narc! I have a good friend that is south american and when I'm around her I start taking on her accent LOL! I have no idea why I do it!

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My very pathetic N suddenly would turn into "eminem" around the hood;) Stupid, plain stupid. It had to be the drugs? :) I witnessed this 2 times and that was 2 times too many!

My Narc would take on (badly) the accent of whoever he was talking to. It was SO embarrassing. Often, he'd talk slowly and as if the person with the accent also lacked basic intelligence. He didn't do it every time, but he'did it often enough.

Yeah, whatever suits them at the moment! I don't think they understand that there is continuity in others' thinking. I found all of this funny, for some reason. I sorta like rednecks and dudes in trucks can be alright if the truck isn't too chromey and pimped out (those can be Ns, in my experience). I also heard chatter in the radio about an interview w/ Keanu Reeves where he just sort of morphed into an accent in the middle of it and was suddenly British. It just made me laugh!