unusual voice?

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at some point every person i get to know makes a remark about how i sound. i've been told my voice is very soft, shy sounding, weird, etc. in middle school a lot of people made fun of me by doing impressions where they made their voice really high-pitched and spoke very slowly.
i've worked on picking up the pace when i talk but i know i still sound a bit weird. i listened to a voicemail i left on my mom's phone realized i sound infantile. i sound like a seven year old...quite literally. i have the kind of lisp a kid has where consonants are pronounced a bit more softly and tones are sing-songy and immature sounding.
i wonder if my lack of everyday conversation has something to do with my voice/speech not progressing.
does anyone else have an odd or unusual voice? and how did you find out?

I sound fairly normal as far as voice goes.

You might want to work with a vocal coach though.

I used to talk too fast, and had trouble pronouncing specific combinations of letters, which would lead to a slur. I've managed to slow it down a bit, but I can still have trouble speaking. I thought I was doing really good with it, until my mother had told me that I sound kind of slurrish at some times. My problem I think though is more related to dyspraxia or cluttering.

My mother did note something about my speech patterns though. Can't remember exactly what, but it wasn't related to the above. She's watched some stuff on autism before, I guess somehow I relate with them, just can't remember the details!


Edit: I'd like to add really quick here, that I suspect a woman I know to have AS (meets a lot of criteria!), and her voice is usually high pitched. She sounds almost like a child in how she speaks. Her personality though is also child like!

Some people like women with soft voices, if all women sounded like Hillary Clinton or Joan Rivers the human race would die off pretty quick.

Vanilla_Slice

I have a wonderful, manly Cockney accent, and I'm not losing it, or sounding more feminine, for anything. If people find out that I'm female, they will expect me to act a female North American. I'd rather have my deep Cockney accent, that I've spoken with, since day one. Besides, I sound like Mick Avory. Interesting. I look and sound like a Cockney.

You can punch my face in, now. I've just bragged, again.

I'm told my voice is strange, but everyone I interact with on a day-to-day basis is used to it. The time I hear about it most are when I'm playing an online game with complete strangers. Consequently I rarely use my microphone.

I get told alot that i speak very quiet and somtimes when im talking il miss pronounce a word

I get similar remarks, but more that my voice is really random, where at some points it can be really high pitched like a kid, and other times it goes really low to the point where I sound like a guy. The people closest to me have discerned that the pitch of my voice is typically a good gauge for the mood I'm in. When my voice is lower in pitch it means that I'm feeling closed off, reserved, or self-conscious and they should probably leave me alone. When my voice gets higher in pitch it usually means I'm hyper or worked up about something, either in a good way or a bad way. I think my family appreciates this audible sign of my mood because otherwise they probably would never be able to tell what kind of mood I'm in.

When i was younger i remember talking a lot in a kind of high pitched baby voice and i still do now and again but i don't realize im doin it do u get that?

I've got a voice that often sounds gay. It is a mixture of Scottish and English; quite nasal; quite quiet; quite reserved; averse to obscenities; gentle and sometimes sweetly seductive.

Definitely unusual. It's easy to recognise. Even on spectrogram, it has characteristic double line. It makes that I can sing and I cannot.

I have big voice range, but I usually use low pitch. It's neutral, nor feminine, neither masculine. My voice is deep, it comes from "deep throat". When I was a kid, I had very guttural voice. Now only sometimes, because I trained. I hate when I want to tell my neighbours good morning, but I tell ghhhhht mohhhringhhhh. When I see them far away, I hyperventilate to avoid it. Few years ago I used Benzydamine to make local anaesthetic in my pharynx. It was too expensive. But I'd probably use Benzydamine again before important conversation (f.e. to get a job).

Sometimes I sound like a drunk. Some people smoke and drink to get drunk voice like mine. I have it naturally.
Sometimes I sound like on the Valium.
It depends on my voice option, which is on/off - guttural or deep. I don't have influence on it.

My pitch is lower and lower - I have many recordings and f.e. 2 years ago I had higher pitch and I thought it's low. It was low, but now I have lower.
My voice is resistant to any mastering, probably of this double line.

I've been told my voice is deeper than some male voices are, but that's all I think.