Iiaat to have your voice change? Not like puberty, but go to a low pitch to a higher pitch depending on who you talk to? And have no control over it? Like, I'm at work and for most people I have a high pitch 'cutsie' voice, but at home and with family my voice drops a lot lower...
Autistic people often have difficulty with vocal modulation. We can struggle with controlling the pitch and/or volume of our voices as well as intonation.
While most people change their voice to fit context (i.e. almost anyone who has worked customer service knows of “customer service voice” which is the voice most people adopt when dealing with customers which is generally lighter and high pitched), however, autistic people may experience more extreme vocal shifts due to our difficulties with vocal modulation.
Our attempts at social blending (changing our voices to fit situations) often do not turn out as we intend and we may have a more “cutesy” voice when trying to do a lighthearted voice as we struggle to control our pitch and cadence.
-Sabrina
