Does anyone ever comment on your VOICE?

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Only when I am 'mumbling' or talking too loudly. I seem to generally be one or the other, or talk too fast.

I speak too quietly. I don't think I could make myself scream even in an open empty space. I naturally suppress the volume of my voice. As far as how my voice sounds, I was once told I have a very deep voice.

I have had alot of commen ts on my voice. I have been told i speak very loudly but i never notice talking loud myself. Its just my regular way of speaking.

With regard to word choice, my words aren't really easy to pin down. When I went to a customer in IOWA, they asked me how I refered to soda. I was AGAST! I said....Pop, Soda, Soda Pop, Coke! I make no clear distinction. I may even SPELL words the british way. I don't know why. Maybe it is because I have been surrounded by different variants of english, and some west european languages, etc... during my life. Maybe it is because I have studied the dictionary, encyclopedias, etc... Maybe it is all I have seen. Who knows. I have heard the word interstate very few times. I may use freeway or highway. Heck, I hear some japanese and it sounds earily familiar and I almost wonder if I didn't speak it at some point. I have some cousins that are japanese, and their mother used to speak japanese around us. I once stayed with them for like a week. I was almost sad that I was their cousin, and so young. I never told her, but I kind of had a crush on one of my cousins. She was CUTE! There is just something about some amerasians. My blood uncle, boston irish, married my japanese aunt.

Don't you just love it? My whole life has been like a customers poster I once saw. It said something like "We spend half our lives wanting to be older, and the rest wanting to be younger.".

Rusty1981,

I don't know if you have the same problem I do. Sometimes my voice can go all over. It can be almost a whisper one minute, and thundering the next. It just HAPPENS. And it doesn't always happen, but sometimes it does. USUALLY when my attention is called to it, I notice. BTW I never yell, and I can't see how my voice can carry so but, sometimes.... YIKES!

Yes, I speak in a very loud tone! People are always telling me to lower my voice. I also speak very quickly w/ a monotone sound and tend to mumble. I am often to told to stop repeating myself and am often asked what country I am orginally from, since they swear I speak w/ an accent.

Not only does my voice carry far too easily (great for public speaking, bad any other time) but apparently I speak slowly, clearly, and without a lot of sing-song so it sounds kinda' flat and monotonous. Not quite like Eeyore, but teased as such.

I tend to stay quiet much of the time. Sometimes when I am saying something I'll stop talking mid sentence when I realize that nobody is listening and nobody notices. I get interrupted a lot too.
I don't like to yell, as I get a sore throat after doing so.

Being from NZ, I have an accent (at least to Americans), which adds to the frustration of having to repeat each and every thing I say.

I know the feeling. Instead of stopping, I'll sometimes switch to utter insanity and starting talking about... "and that's when the aliens came gave starting sucking out brains with a straw..." and all of a sudden the eyes turn back on me... but with "the look" as if they were collectively thinking "what the he-elllll???"

To which I give a grin and a raised eyebrow.

The other week someone asked me if I was Dutch! I think its because my dentist is South African and I always come back doing impressions of him.Instead of open your mouth I say
"open your cheque book" in Africans!

So I've picked up a slight accent. People tend to say I talk too fast or my voice is loud and pressured.

I was told I have a very loud voice, and even as a kid I tended to be loud tho im not receptive to it.

I have gotton a bit better. I was told some ppl thought I had an impediment, but I doubt thats what it is. Very loud and very deep.

I've always been very quiet, very soft-spoken. People tell me that I sound like a little kid, and I tend to mumble and talk very fast. I'm also told that I pause in weird places... whatever that means!

same.
what kinda sucks is the fact that my voice tends to break if i've been quiet, and then someone says hello or asks "how i'm doing today". my mouth forms the word 'hi' or 'good', but the words come out in either an inaudible whisper, or my voice gets higher/panicky. i've been in trouble for this before with my principal from my first high school..."you can at least say 'HI'".

I am very self-conscious about talking to strangers, or when I am forced to talk about myself (like at a job interview). Under these conditions, I tend to talk too fast, with broken-up sentences, and too nasally and breathy. People must think I am strange when I talk like this.
I also tend to talk "childish", saying things that a 5 or 6 year old child might say. I guess I find it difficult to be an adult! (Peter Pan syndrome!).
Does anyone else feel subconscious VIBES when with other people, either strangers or friends? It seems that the mere presence of a person can trigger me to talk nervously, even though I know nothing about the other person. Even people who appear very nice and friendly can trigger me to speak nervously, even stutter! I wonder what it is that I sense subconsciously?!

Yes...I get the subconscious vibes that you speak of...I find that they sometimes cause me to somewhat emulate the person I am speaking to....among other things...

I was accused several times of having used too sophisticated words; I tend to use such expressions and constructions of sentences which would look great in a book but sound artificially when somebody, especially a young person, someone in her teens or twenties uses them. Such a manner of speaking is simply natural for me.

Everyone says I talk too softly and I mumble a lot.
Which is the complete opposite of my father (Who isn't an Aspie)
he talks so incredibly loud that I sometimes have to leave the room when he's talking.