[stavros]

> It was the first time it occurred to me that I had an accent.

As a non-native speaker, it's funny to me that some people think they don't have an accent. An accent is just the way you talk, if you speak, you have an accent.

What everyone seems to think an accent is, is "this person has a different accent from mine, therefore they have an accent".

It's like seeing a blond person for the first time in your life and saying "it never occurred to me I had a hair color".