#When I speak to my team or educate the overall department I fucking erase any hint of my accent out of reflex

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Love that my little cousin (little...shes turning 16 next year.... HA..) grew up in my hometown but no one "corrected" her accent and she speaks so comfortably sounding like our home 🥺 My earliest memories were getting chided for sounding too country but it was so confusing to be born into southern culture and then reprimanded for acting or sounding like it. :/

Idk, I have two accents as an adult: a work accent (no dialect, very bland) and a family accent (appalachian, baby!!! Woohoo!!!!). When I come back from visiting home, I bring the appalachian with me and it shocks a lot of people who only know my work voice.

IDK!! I know it was good intentioned to split my dialect at a young age so people wouldn't prejudge my intelligence, but after taking college placement exams 6 years before my peers, finishing all college english course before graduating high school, student teaching art to the high school and the middle school across the street my senior year, tutoring trigonometry and advanced honors chemistry, enrolling in the honors college on a full academic merit scholarship....GOD how much do you have to do before you're allowed to sound like your home without people assuming you're an idiot