I’m French. I grew up with my parents’ English since age 5, American English. People often assume I myself live in America and grew up there. I do have citizenship there but I don’t really want to go due to recent political stuff. 😓

I am a bi transmasc as well so I’m scared.

  • @neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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    All the time for me. I work with in an international environment, so my accent is a bit hard to nail down.

    Especially in 2010 when my main coworkers were British, Canadian, and Texan. The Texans thought I was Canadian, the Canadians thought I was British, and the brit thought I was Texan.

    Nobody suspected that I was Norwegian unless I told them. It probably didn’t help that the home airport as published on the crew lists was first Dublin, then Brno via Prague.

    • kersploosh
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      Texans will appreciate that you refer to them as Texans rather then American.

      • @neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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        Yup, I’ve worked enough with Texans (and still do) to know that. Some are Texicans, some are Texericans, but first and foremost, they’re all Texans.