Anyone else struggle with a monotone voice?

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I've always had a soft, monotone voice even when I was a kid. I don't like it though because I think others feel like I'm not interested in them or what they're talking about, and especially with a new job coming up I'm trying to sound happy and excited in my voice but it just feels so unnatural and forced to me. My voice cracks often attempting to speak with varying pitches to try and express my emotions, and yeah phone calls are a nightmare since no one can see my body language either and they can only go off my voice.

Anyways what's your experience with this? I'm not sure if this is an Autism thing because I haven't encountered anyone else in person with that, but I thought I would ask anyways.

Having an "odd, or stilted way of speaking" is actually a symptom of aspergers, and I think what you are speaking of (ha! Get it?) would count.

One of my best friend has aspergers, and he also has a very quiet, monotone voice. Except when he's very excited, and then, like you have experienced, sometimes his voice will crack.

I actually find it adorable.

I think the best thing, is to not try and and fake it. I know you think its boring or dull and doesn't fit in, but trying to put on a voice is gonna sound bad and wrong. The only way is to really accept your voice, embrace it, try and love it, and find the unique things about its sounds. The more you enjoy your voice the more others will.

yes and no.
i do use inflections and intonations when i speak (partially becouse i learned how to sing as part of my musical education), but the way i use them doesn't change with my mood.
I speak the exact same way when i'm sad, happy, neutral, what have you. only when i'm getting enraged does my voice change: i will speak very loudly at that point, and i'll lose said inflections

I too speak in monotones, but I stop doing so whenever I get very excited or extremely angry. I don't mind it, though. I kinda like unsettling people.

I don't speak with a monotone, though my voice doesn't really carry that well.

yes I have been told that a lot before.
About trying to sound happy. People tell me all the time that I look like I'm sad(even when I'm not) so counter this I used to try to act really happy and amused by what other people had to say and what I ended up doing was just nervously laughing at everything people said even if it wasn't funny. basically just desperately trying to fit in until one day someone finally told me that what they said wasn't suppose to be funny and walked away and I felt really stupid. Anyways I kind of went off the rails there but that was my experience trying to sound happy and excited to cover up my monotone voice.

Up until around the age of 18 or 19 my voice was completely monotone. I remember having to read book reports in grade school aloud and the teachers commenting on how my voice was monotone.

After years and years of assimilating dialogue and psrsonalities from sitcoms, tv dramas and movies, i have learned to have more variety in my voice.

I fail to see the problem with a monotone voice.

No, not I, except when I'm really chilled, or passing on information in a low key setting.

My voice generally can match the pitch and inflections appropriate for the conversation. I also tend to speak one half of a sentence normally, and then the second half ending with a goofy accent. It tends to make people laugh, or causes them to like me a little better as I appear more fun or playful.

This month's accent is the penguin from Madagascar who is the leader. That voice is just like one of the best.

Sometimes I do British or other accents and mix them in from time to time.