How common is the occurrence of high pitched voice?

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Is there a link between AS and high pitched voices in women? I ask because Im 36 yrs old and I sound like a little girl. It never occurred to me that this could be why I sound this way until I recently. I have read that this can be true for men, but I havent seen this anywhere in regards to women. My voice is so child like that on several occasions I have heard, "put your mommy on the phone" or "is your mommy home?" This is when I even answer the phone or make phone calls because typically I avoid the phone unless there is a need.

I have never really had a negative experience about what others think about my voice (except those few times on the phone). Most of the time its just comments about how young I sound or how "cute" my voice is. Or that I should consider a job in voice over. But Im too embarrassed at the thought of recording my own voice lol..

I also have a high-pitched voice. I hate it. Had hoped that smoking would alter my voice in some way (unhealthy, I know), but that just hasn't happened yet.

I used to hate it... I guess I just accept it- to a point. The phone is extremely hard for me.

I am in my 60's and I still get "Can I speak to your parents" on the phone.

I thought I read somewhere on this forum that it is common for women on the spectrum have low/raspy voice. I have quite a low voice (which I hate), and I know a lot of NT women that have a high-pitched voice.

But since everything's related to Autism here, I can't be bothered to argue.

Ha, funny! I sound like a 12 year old boy, I hate hearing my own voice.

I get everyone mistaking me for my mother on the phone -- even my mother's parents. People always think I sound very mature. I've always thought my voice is actually a bit lower than many other girls -- not in a masculine way, but just at that end of the spectrum. I'm told your voice sounds normally an octave or two lower to you when you speak -- something about the vibrations or something? Either way, that's me.

Just for the sake of reference, I am on the autism spectrum but more at the very, very mild end -- not even Asperger's -- and I was diagnosed.

I hope this helps! --I do find it very interesting how certain qualities are the default 'norm' for people on the spectrum and others are the default 'norm' for neurotypicals. I hope one day we understand the roots of these things -- why they coincide.

When I get stressed, my muscles gets crisped... in my neck too... so my voice gets higher and higher...

also from a lot of harassment for being weird... I adopted a sweet little voice to calm people. I kinda have a deep coarse one from low thyroid... maybe I try to mask it.

I get overstimulated easily... human interaction has too much information and demands... so it gets higher quick...

Enjoy~

I've got a low voice. People have mistaken me for a man. I would say that my voice is very soft, though. So if I sound like a man, it's an uncommonly soft-spoken one.

My voice makes me sound like a 10- year- old girl. But when I shriek, I sound like a 4-year- old girl -____-

I was going to say I didn't have an especially high pitched voice, but I got "can I talk to your mommy" at 27, so I guess I sound young anyway, high pitched or no.

I don't have a high pitched voice. Just a dumb sounding one.

Bear in mind that a woman's voice doesn't settle until she's in her thirties. I had singing lessons when I was a teenager, so I have very good control of my voice-I can pitch it to speak in front of a crowd with authority, or so that someone with a hearing aid can understand me, things like that. My speaking voice is in the alto range these days. When I sing I can cover tenor to soprano.

I look much younger than I am, sort of pixie-boyish, so my voice occasionally startles new acquaintances, because it's much deeper and more resonant than my appearence leads people to expect.