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Any one has any advice how i can be more expressive with my emotions and not sound like a robot?

I happen to quite like monotonous voices. But if you really want to change it, it seems like imitating other people is the key.
I have always been quite expressive, and I think it has a lot to do with me going to theater school/being a child actor when I was a kid. I always had a director who told me how to look, and how to say things.
I also used to imitate characters from movies. I could remember big chunks of dialogue and repeated it often, in the same way the characters did.
So, I guess studying and mimicking actors and practice in front of a mirror could be a good way. Or maybe even take an acting class, if it's not too uncomfortable.

I'm afraid it's going to feel very fake and stupid, and it won't come naturally for a very long time, if ever.
I was really lucky to get so much training from such a young age, so all expressions and tones of voice is a habit now. But I am still always conscious of how I'm acting, and still feel very fake sometimes. But I can't deny how useful it is to be able to pass for NT when it's needed.

I try laugh out loud to NTs often as a means of segwaying into other topics of conversation. This does not always have the desired effect because NTs usually get uncomfortable with the attention said laughing draws to oneself.

I've heard many NTs thought that I was mentally handicapped and perhaps they're right to some degree but this only shows that I failed in my efforts to mask Aspie-ness. I usually fail in this endeavour regardless.

At this point, I laugh when I can to try to cheer myself up and I disregard public opinion when showing emotions. Most emotions I can't seem to control anyways.

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*** High Functioning Autism - Asperger's Syndrome ***

ADHD, OCD, and PTSD.

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