Does your Voice Change?

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Yeah it changes depending on who I am talking to, mostly if I am trying to conect with them. Though if I am not wanting to be exposed to them so to speak I tend to have a sort of boring tone, sort of a mysterous style often thorwing a lot of sarcastic things in that confuse, or sometime anger people. And at times when I want to leave myself exposed often to a group I will pick up a more like able speech paterns and voice that is more inteligent and careing.

My family are the only people who've heard my "real" voice.

Everyone else gets monotone, with weird rises at the end of sentences.

Not only do I mimick people, But I have several different voices that I use...like my serious voice and my baby voice...I do not make these affectations of purpose..it seems to just happen automaticly.....

Pretty much same here.

I see you are a Halo fan too, I think the next line is "but I followed with all the ships in my fleet"

Totally -- I think it's like echolalia and/or trying to just connect with the other person on their own level.

My voice changes all the time, which can be a little disconcerting, because sometimes I do it *too* well -- like yesterday, when I was talking to someone who grew up in the same god-forsaken corner of the world I did, which I never want to go back to, and by the end of our conversation, he was convinced that I was homesick and pining for "home". Uh... not.

Once I was talking to someone, and she made some comment that was totally off base, and I used my "real" voice to correct her, which sounded very, very different from the voice I had been using to talk to her. I ended up sounding like some weird-ass multi-personality freak -- like Linda Blair channeling demons in The Exorcist -- which startled both me and her.

It was really embarrassing!

I still haven't recovered.

This would be how my AS son is. Well, except for the choice of dialects, lol. He has created his own. But I can most definitely tell my son's overall sense of stress by the voice he is using.

I can't answer specifically, but your observation reminds me of a conversation I once had on another AS website. It had suddenly struck me as interesting how my AS son, who can't stand changes in routine at home, can be such a good traveller. And he is. As are many AS. One theory someone posted was that when travelling, especially in another culture, you are freed of all your expectations and "rules." Really liberating for an Aspie.

I can agree with that, actually. I went off to America by myself (having never before travelled outwith the EU) to attend the wedding of a friend I met on the internet, and also went on to visit friends in another state afterwards. I had the time of my life, but my dad gets really frustrated because he can't understand how I can do that but can't deal with other relatively insignificant things.

I think that theory you said makes a lot of sense, actually - I felt that nobody thought of me as somebody they knew, just an interesting stranger (with a cute Scottish accent). I didn't even have to try to be interesting, I just needed to speak a bit. You people are suckers for an accent, you know that, right?