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26 Jun 2013, 4:15 pm

apequake wrote:
I never thought I did until I was recorded myself for a music review on video. I really thought I had spoken with a lot of energy, inflection and facial movement. I just spoke in the same monotone, just louder sometimes. My big facial expressions were subtle weird changes with my face. I recorded myself at least 20 times. I could not put it up there as it was, so I edited the hell out of it and never did that again.


LOL, I really thought I sounded normal until I once heard my voice recorded on a tape. It was at high school (some 20 years ago) and it hasn't changed a bit since then. It's high pitched, nasal and ... maybe it's not absolutely monotonous, but it just does not express what I'm feeling; it's so weak and flat compared to what I believed it to be. Actually, I couldn't hear anything from it but aloofness and some weird irony.
I don't know if it's an "aspie voice"; sounds more like the voice of a dull nerdy sarcastic b***h.
Good for telling dirty jokes though.

With the face and postures, it's not that bad, but it's just because I've been consciously working at body language for all my life. I might still be looking a bit weird: too thin, too boyish considering my gender, too loose, but at least not too awkward. Well, except for some stimming.



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26 Jun 2013, 8:29 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
I go to an aspie support group and Ive never seen anyone with "an odd aspie voice".

I dont know what you mean by "aspie mannerisms". There are a number of aspies Ive met who are very high strung, and fidgety (not me). So that might be what you mean by "mannerisms". But not everyone has that.


Some aspies have less inflection (especially emotional inflection) than average and less emphasis on certain words to make a point. Some aspies have flat affect-noticeably fewer facial expressions, hand gestures, body language ect. than most people. Some have gauche body language - noticeably weird, exaggerated and awkward gestures and facial expressions. SOme have expressions inappropriate to what they're communicating - talking about something that makes them really sad while smiling or smiling at someone else's expression of pain, anger ect. Some aspies have a strange lilt to their voices and sound like they come from another country when they don;t (an unexplainable accent). Some have "sing-songy" voices and some have formal, pedantic intonation (enunciating too much, for example). Then some people are talking about having a noticeably awkward gait when walking or a noticeably awkward posture. The OP is asking if you have any of these kind of noticeable traits, I think.