To be so fed up of this?

[Rainfull091]

I have always had an odd accent. My sister does as well and my mother and gran to some extent. Either get told we sound either kiwi or Australian but also get Northern as well.
People say that I have the strongest accent though and yet there are others who dont think so but the majority do. Anyway, I am sick of people commenting on it all the time. As in 'You're definitely not from round here are you ?" I respond saying I was born in the UK and never left and its met with a series of exclamations and utter shock which really embarrasses me.
People also mimic me. I end sentences with a lilt or question mark apparently so when I say things like the name Ellie, people will respond with laughter and say 'Ell-eh!' It's really impacting on my confidence and always so conscious of speaking to anyone especially new people but even people I have known a while. As for the phone, I just hate it as it gets commented on more than ever there.
Aibu to say this bothers me and to look into speech therapy or changing my voice somehow?

YANBU. I have an accent from outside of the UK and people always ask. So tiresome!

I feel for you when you're actually born and bred here. It gets tedious enough when you do have an accent, being from parts faraway!

@Desperado40 Are you from another country though?

We had a nurse with an accent like yours OP. We eventually asked where she was from as we were on friendly terms and I was curious. Amazed it was Nottingham. We were curious about where she'd moved from to study nursing etc, and certainly wouldn't have mimicked her or taken the piss.

so I think, people asking when they meet you for the first time, as part of polite getting to know you chat, I think you just have to deal with graciously.

People taking the piss, tell them it's rude. People who know you commenting, tell them it's rude. You don't have to put up with bad manners.

If you are saying Elleh, I'm guessing you are from (west) Yorkshire?

And yes, it's very rude of people to make fun of the way someone else speaks!

No, I'm from Kent. That's what embarrasses me. I shouldn't even sound like this.

You need some standard responses to stop this

"That's a bit mean" smile
"It's embarrassing to be called out on my accent all the time"
Sort of thing

(Or "f**k off" 🤣)

It's the mimicking that's extremely rude for me. I also have an accent and the amount of people who think it's OK to copy what I just said in a recreation of my accent pisses me off. If you like my accent, just say "I love your accent. Where are you from?". And if you don't like it, don't say anything. This thing comes from people who don't know you usually, OP- at least I've found that anyway. It's rude and screams immaturity imo. STFU if you've got the manners of swamp rat and can't say anything nice.

Yeh I get this as well. I was born in the North, with northern parents but my.mum is very well spoken and although I grew up in a rough area of the North, with northern friends in a northern school it was drummed into me to speak "properly".
I was bullied at school for being, in the words of my bullies "posh" but also ridiculed at home for not speaking properly!! I'd try to speak like my friends at school, adopting various slang and regional words, then switch it off at home and speak like my mum wanted.
I then moved to the south as an adult where I lived for many years and got a southern husband.
I've always been super self conscious about what my accent is actually supposed to be.
So now my accent is totally fucked. If any particular word comes out very northern or very southern someone, somewhere takes the piss.
I was once asked at work if I'm South African, by a very very rude manager and it honestly made me so embarrassed. People should just mind there business.

Yes, I wish they would just mind their own business.
It's bad enough being asked 'Where are you from?' and the awkwardness that comes from that as well as someone asking me in a round about way. Like 'Have you always lived here or somewhere else?
'Oh. You have?
'So are your parents also born here or somewhere else?
'Oh. OK.'
Then they sit there looking baffled and you can tell they really want to say 'So why the hell do you have such a weird voice ?' But they don't want to be rude.
It really does massively impact on my self confidence. I would do anything to just have a normal voice.

I’d look upset when someone points it out yet again if the way they do it seems rude and say something like, “Yeah, I wish I could stop people always going on about it. It does get annoying.” That will shut them right up.