Is this usual or not?

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I met a guy with aspergers a year ago at college and it was weird becasue when he spoke his voice sounded really unsual like it did not change at all in loudness. He had a deep voice but it was not easy to hear and did not change at all in pitch or rythm.

Some other people I know with aspgers do not talk this so maybe it does not effect everyone with AS.

Just need your opinons on this?

Unusually loud or quiet speech can be a sign of AS, but it's not present in everyone who has it.

Other folk have asked about this elsewhere on the forums. Don't worry about it, compared with the other stuff we have to deal with our diction is the least of our problems

Vanilla_Slice

My voice is monotone and too soft, unless I have my NT "mask" on. I usually do though, since I have a deeper voice and I've been told it's hard to hear me when I'm not trying to sound normal. I don't think this is unusual as it was one of the traits that lead to my diagnosis.

I always get scolded because I talk very loud.

There are an assortment of odd vocal thingys that affect some people with AS. That one sounds pretty typical. My eldest talks baby talk a lot of the time, and my middle son speaks overly softly and monotonely. Lately I've been noticing a deepening in his voice...now that he's 11and all. Both are not unusual for AS, I'm told.

We're trying to get the babytalk to stop because, well, he might want to date someday. I'm trying to get middle son to speak up, because I want to hear him. I'd take the quiet monotone over the babytalk as I don't think there are any really significant social implications of the latter. If eldest keeps going as he is and ends up institutionalized the babytalk could get him in serious trouble.

Well one guy who I know that is badly affected by aspergers or autisim trys to immitate old fashioned radio presenters voices and is very very ecentric and is regarded by everyone else as an oddball. I knew one aspie guy that spoke exactley the same as an NT persons voice and had no oddities at all but he was still regarded as weird by other people and much like me ha problesms with rage. I have been told I speak like a posh person but I must admit after hearing my voice on an audio recorder the young man I met at college who i desribed at the beggning of this thread did actualyl sound similar to me. His voice was very creepy when he spoke to me.

Maybe I ned voice couching.

Sounds like you're describing a monotone voice. No, this is not unusual for those on the spectrum. I don't usually speak with a monotone voice, but usually I do when I'm feeling really put out on something.

Some people see / hear me as monotonous - though in some situations this gives me soothing powers that some appreciate. Both pitch range and volume are fairly restricted. I get told my whispers are too loud and my calls for attention too soft.

I was told that I talk monotonously, somewhat under my breath, and without emphasizing my consonants, enough.

I used to have hearing issues. Expressive faces always told me that I was speaking wildly, and I may have been overcompensating, for years, without realizing it.

my voice is like that too.
deep and sort of monotone.
i just can't seem to figure out for the life of me how to make my voice more expressive.
How to manipulate the volume, pitch, & rhythm properly

Diagnostically, expressive aprosodia indicates HFA, but this is changing. Supposedly, this can be treated by speech therapy, but since I never had this I have no idea of what the success rates are.

I could mimic tempo and intonations in speech class, but this did not instill in me a knack for prosody, even though I was watching for agreeable feedback.

(Deleted most of the post after realizing that I was rewording the same ideas, again and again.)

This is very usual for someone on the spectrum, I do aswell occasionally, but most of the times it seems pretty normal.