Why Aspies have loud voices

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Understimulation for me! Sometimes I run out of light and motion in my head and I become extroverted rather than introverted. Because now I'm looking outside of me for light and motion. It's like I'm in a dark, silent pit. I need to do something about it. Our instinct when we're trapped in a pit with no way out, of course, is to shout and hopefully someone will hear. So I start talking loud.


If I said I didn't realize I was doing it, it's because I'd been doing it for so long I got used to doing it and I don't notice when I'm doing it anymore. It's an instinct. Do you usually notice when you blink? No, right. Do you notice when you breathe? No. It's not that I'm stupid and don't know it's annoying to others. It's jsut hard to stop for the above-mentioned reason. It wasn't that I didn't know better. I jsut didn't know how to explain why I did it, until now.


Btw I don't do that anymore for some reason; I probably found other ways to get stimulated.

I talk loudly and have done so since I was little. For me I never can preceive I am talking loudly. I always sense backround noise and unlike everyone else around me this noise messs up my thought process and ability to listen and process what was said to me. Its very natural for me to talk loud because I need everyone else to talk loud around me not only to process but to overpower the backround noise that screws me up.

I talk loud to enshure others hear what I have to say, never realizeing I am the only person with the issue.

So explain why aspies speak so softly!

Could it be the opposite problem; overstimulation from the outside world?

I usually talk either too loudly or too quietly. I can't tell until someone points it out. It's been pointed out frequently enough that I know that when I'm interested in what I'm saying, I speak too loudly, and when I'm bored by what I'm saying, I speak quietly. It's not usually within my control.

I tend to have trouble with voice volume myself. As I got older it improved a bit. When I was a kid there were many times when people told me I talked too loud or even too low. I still occasionally have this problem but not as bad.

I do have a funny voice however. When I first got diagnosed I asked the Psycharist why is my voice funny and why I trouble with it's volume and sound at times. He said it's part of the disorder.

You know what I think it is? I think it is

1. Getting excited/upset.
2. Reacting to various things.
3. A problem similar to what I have with the TV commercials. A lot of idiots make commercials LOUDER! That means that you are tempted to turn the TV down. Sometimes, they are lower and, thinking that the TV is too low, you turn the volume up. The result? The TV will either go all over the place or, more likely, remain on one setting. Think of the interruptions and background noise to an autistic as the commercials, and you may see a pattern! The early sensitivity, and latter acceptance might be key.

My voice isn't usually that loud, people ask me to speak up at times.

I can never really tell when I'm shouting, though the common thread seems to be that I tend to shout when I am really concentrating on what I am saying. I am so bad at multitasking that I don't think I could adequately project my voice as well as be especially conscious about what I am saying at the one time.

THAT is my point! AS people often speak at the wrong volume. I have been told to lower, AND I have been told to raise, my voice!

So true, I find myself almost shouting at times...

I don't, I usually speak very quietly because I'm scared of being too loud

Because I don't?

Understimulation? No. That's something else....
Off track.

The autistic mind is analytical relative to the 'holistic' mind of a neurotypical (Simon Baron-Cohen). Detail-oriented. Understimulation is NOT the issue at all.

Anyway, I have a really quiet, soft voice (if I even speak). And I'm shy. The voice modulation is I guess due to some inner sensory thingy - neuronal. Plus not recognizing constructs.

Understimulation is NOT the issue.

I have (DEEP INTENSE focus x 10^(1/0)) = indicative of HFA.



How come all these threads are redundant?

I'm either too loud or too quiet.