Montone voice?

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Has anyone else noticed that when they're not conscious of it, so like 95% of the time, that their voice is horribly monotone?

For me, when I hear recordings or a video, I have the deepest flattest voice ever. People tend to enjoy mocking it as I guess sometimes the tone comes off as a " f*** off " way or something, but anyway. I noticed a few years ago that when I tried to sing and recorded it, that I could occasionally get into really nice sounding tenor range.

Another unrelated thing that I noticed is that my train-spotting (movie with Scottish accents) impersonation at it's peak was A: flawless ... and B: nowhere near as deep or flat as usual. My expressions were also more normal and people responded way better to the scottish me than normal me. I ended up doing it for like two months back in high school just because of how positive the response was... but of course quit because it was ridiculous and really hard to maintain.

I think it was just me acting more or less, since I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid and used to practice expressions and things I had learned from T.V./movies... and the voice thing is probably just my normal voices range capability, which is naturally flat and inexpressive. It's weird to think about though.

Maybe you have echolalia? It's common in Aspies, and I have it, I learned my accent from movies and from copying the voices of people like my parents. But when I'm not compelled to sound "normal" such as when talking to my boyfriend, parents, or close friends, I do revert to a monotone.
Problem is, when I'm around people with an exotic accent, I sometimes unwittingly pick up on it, and then they think I'm mocking them through imitation.

Even though I can play neurotypical almost perfectly, speech therapists who have worked with autistic people, know right away that I am autistic. I do pay attention to intonation when I am speaking to people in order to hide the fact I am autistic. IF people find out that I am autistic, I want it to happen on my terms.

I guess I'm not entirely sure. I'm almost always too busy paying attention to what the other person may be thinking to ever notice or even monitor my own behavior. Although after reading up on echolalia I don't think I have it... no one has ever really commented on it before. Also, I seem to do the opposite of you when it comes to talking to my girlfriend ... which is a really odd fact in itself. When I was with her I would talk in a more normal voice, and my eye's would apparently also change. I could even feel them change when I looked at her. And recently I've noticed that it happens pretty much whenever I see a girl who I am genuinely really attracted too.



You must live in a more cultured area. Where I am from, autistic meant you were a small step up from a person with downs syndrome. And apparently/unluckily people just dismiss my emotionless appearance/voice as meaning that I am just a scary hateful person. Then once I get to know them and open up with humor I think they just assume that I am apathetic as hell and just really weird. Of course I have not been officially diagnosed, but it as been suggested by professionals at my college who have worked with autism to look into getting one. That combined with my research and extremely skeptical nature leaves me at like 95% positive that it is some form of autism. With that... most of my extremely uncultured 'friends' who assume I, " Just don't care what people think". And who laughed the idea of autism off when I had suggested it because they either A: would then have to feel terrible for some of the ways that they treated me ... or B: had a concept of autism in where EVERYONE with autism stuck out like red paint on a white wall.

I do that around Kiwis and South Africans mostly. But to some extent I do it around everyone. I speak like a west country type at work and a welshman. It can be a little confusing for people.