I ain't country

Being from the south, it is a norm to have that southern accent. While most are usually small, and you can barely tell they are there, mine was not. I was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina. That is about as hick as you can get in South Carolina. I lived in the south for 5 years and then I moved to North Carolina. I had the worst country accent. My accent was so strong that most people couldn't understand me. When I moved up here, I enrolled in a private school. I was sitting in class one day and the teacher asked me to read. Being an outgoing student, I gladly accepted. I remember the sentence to this day. It was , "Molly sat by the red door." When I read this out loud, the class listened until I got to the word red. When I read that word, the class bursted out laughing. I couldn't understand what I did or what was wrong. Apparently, my accent was so strong that I made red a two syllable word. I pronounced it "ra-ed". So form that day forward, I decided to cover up my accent. I have successfully changed it and I have also successfully become afraid of speaking in front of large crowds from the incodent. The only time it comes back without my control is when I'm around real country people. I don't know why, but it just comes back. I don't have my accent because most people think a country accent makes them dumb, which of course isn't true. I had a chance at an early age to change it, so I did. With that being said though, when people have country accents, and then get judged by them it does make me mad because that's like my origin of tongue.