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03 Sep 2006, 4:27 pm

OMG sounds like me. NT's criticize my normal voice as being monotone, so i would try to use more inflection, but it would'nt sound right because I was trying too hard. People would complain they couldn't hear me so i would try to speak louder but then they would get mad cause they thought I was yelling at them. It is so discouraging at times.



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03 Sep 2006, 8:09 pm

DirtDawg wrote:
Now see, here we go again.
I'm the exact opposite, but to another total extreme. I have often been accused of "using sing song speech" or over exaggerating tones and inflections. (Yes, I scare people.)

I've read that this could be another form of echolalic behavior, although adaptive and advanced over the first 'learning to speak' echoing attempts that some of us do, involuntarily. I'm no longer echoing just words, but I'm echoing moods and tones from other conversations I've had or heard. However, the control, intensity and correct use of those "moods" is lacking, or at least a bit 'off'. The result is a cartoonish sounding, bouncy caricature of what I'm trying to express, almost like I'm doing melodrama. I've heard myself recorded on tape, before ... it would be embarrassing, if I really cared.


Sometimes I'm like this, sometimes I'm not. It depends on how excited I am by something. As I've become older I've tended to mellow out a bit, so it hasn't been as much of a problem these days.



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05 Sep 2006, 11:37 pm

On my personal experience, no, flat affect is not necessarily correlated with limited emotional range. I am very good at identifying my emotions and can be strongly affected by the rightt things, but my voice tends to remain flat as does my facial expression. I am working on expressing nonverbally the emotions I feel inside because that helps NTs "get" me.



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06 Sep 2006, 3:52 am

It really is a bizarre thing....Cannot hear how odd my voice sounds normally - Only when I hear it recorded :? - That's when I realise how low & dreary sounding it is.



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06 Sep 2006, 12:07 pm

I do not think that my emotional range is limited however I somtimes have difficulties matching the responce to the situation. The lack of inflection and tone is natural for me I have offten been told that my voice sounds dead. I usually remember to try to vary the tone and add inflection but if I am tied of depressed I forget.


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