Is it possible to have aspergers and NOT be monotone:?

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I know someone who is very clearly aspie (and DXed) and speaks with normal prosody, so no, I don't think it's a requirement, even for males. I think I've read before that women with AS are especially likely to have normal prosody, but men can too.

I speak monotone.

I was told so by peers and parents.

I do not speak monotone. I do, however, still need to work to give my voice more inflections, especially around my children.

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I don't speak in monotone. Only when I am speaking to someone who I am quite nervous of, but me speaking in monotone is not natural to me, which is why I get an extreme ache in my throat afterwards.

Yes it's possible. Not all aspies I have known sounded robotic. Their voices sounded normal.

i never speak in monotone at all. i use a sarcastic tone a lot because i can be a grouchy sarcastic person.

My voice is not monotone but I mumbled a lot as a kid and my voice gets raspy when I am upset. Also I seem to have problems with tone. People often think I sound like I am being sarcastic even when I am not or they think I am being serious when I am joking.

I don't have a monotone voice.

But I do have the very obviously Aspie prosody, as do others in my family as well as friends.

For some it's more subtle, or at least harder to detect when they don't have it quite as strongly &/or their voice is a bit higher. Although, I must admit I had previously noticed something different (that I liked) about some voices before I even realized mine was like this, and it's only recently that I put two & two together and paid close attention to their voices and realized it's the same prosody trait. So now it's not so hard for me to detect now that I know what I'm listening for and what it is.

this might come across as blunt - I don't know how to put it any other way -

but " a lot of people say since my voice isn't monotone I'm probably not really aspergers"....

these people - they aren't trained, qualified specialists in AS - they are people who have their own ideas and opinions about what constitutes AS or autism or being on the spectrum etc...

I've had to listen to a lot of opinions lately about this subject - opinions are just what they are...
we can all have opinions but does that make them valid?

No, being able to modulate your voice does not mean you haven't got AS - the same way that a lot of us can do eye contact, we can recognise faces and emotions in others and we can empathise.
Being on the spectrum is a highly individual thing - don't let people without suitable experience or proper qualifications de-stabilise you about your diagnosis or your evidence based knowledge about the subject..

A lot of it has to do with pop culture. Everyone seems to think that everyone with Asperger's talks like Abed from Community. That said, it is definitely possible. When I was younger, I always talked with a fairly monotone voice. However, once it was brought to my attention, I learned to inflect my voice, I even learned accent (something no one thought was possible. I lived in Yorkshire from when I was two to when I was seven. Everyone around me spoke with an English accent, even my sister, except for my parents, and when I started talking, it came out just like I learned to talk in Maryland. Now I talk like I'm from Virginia, even though I live in Maryland. Weird, huh? And yes, there's a difference.). Just like slang, things like prosody and accent can be learned with enough experience and effort. For me, it took a sales job.

No, you don't need a monotone voice in order to have AS. Most people say I have a 'normal sounding' voice, except I sound a lot younger than I am.

I also have inflection in my voice and I always have.

Yes, it's perfectly possible to have AS and not have a monotonous voice. Years ago, I realised my voice was pretty monotonous even to me, so I consciously changed it and tried to put more variability into it. Even now though, if I'm talking at length it starts to drift into a bit of a monotone, and I mentally jog myself a bit, though it's probably not the worst monotone you've heard. Largely though, I don't talk with a monotone.

i speak a lot like bill gates but an octave lower. i alternate between monotonic and exaggerated singsong. i either speak too quietly or too loudly. a happy medium is hard to maintain.

I tend to be much the same, I think. I sound a little flat at times--it's more pronounced when I'm tired, I think. Speaking at the right volume can be a challenge; my mom says I often speak too softly or too loudly. My voice has a definite nasal quality to it.