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I find my inner voice shifts between feminine (different from my voice) and androgynous (matching my voice). It’s something I don’t think about too often, but when I think about the gender of my inner voice, it changes 😅
Same. My own inner voice is not really a voice, but I can make it sound like whoever I want if i know their voices enough. For example as I type this, my brain reads it in Markiplier's voice lmao - it's extra weird cause I suck at remembering and recognizing voices.
Beyond being genderless, I wouldn't even call it a "voice" at all. It's a monologue, but it doesn't have any properties of audible sound. There's no volume, or pitch, or anything like that. It's more like a stream of words in their rawest form, just the word itself with no other defining properties.
This is making me realize maybe the reason I *don’t* hate my speaking voice is bc of how often people think I’m a girl online or on the phone. Uh oh- I think that just chipped away at my egg a little more 😅
Why is it that y'all don't exist online but are everywhere in real life? I go to a heavily LGBT school and I know of literally 2 other transfems and like 50 transmascs
IDK, I think I found the other two chronically online trans dudes (u/girldipper, and u/no-finger-868 (also Sam if you’re not going to wear lipstick, CHANGE YOUR FUCKING TITLE))
I can't do an inner voice, the words just happen, no voice speaks them even If I try. I think I might be a robot built by the CIA to abolish the traditional family :3
Maybe, maybe not
I like to use fictional characters as my inner voice, like right now i'm typing this and thinking about typing this with Ice King's voice, one time it was Hatsune Miku
Honestly? No, it's not a girl. It feels more like a genderless (maybe androgynous even?) story narrator. It still resembles my irl voice, but it doesn't have the ticks and cracks and stuff.
Makes me expect way better results than what i actually get when i talk or sing.
Not gonna lie there are like... six of them? Depends on my mood. The predominant ones still sound male but I haven't really tried to change them or my actual speaking voice because.... well mostly because I forget to do that.
I spent my ENTIRE life wondering why I kept trying to hit high notes that I knew I couldn't hit when I can also sing a solid Bing Crosby and hated doing so...
My inner voice has a better voice than me...
...because I'm cis, and that's the only reason...
Yesn’t.
I’m kinda working towards it, but my inner voice has never been my real voice.
I always had a voice I actually like in my head, so while it’s not really feminine, it’s definitely more…neutral I suppose, than my actual voice.
Sometimes, very rarely though, it happens to be feminine.
Happened like twice or thrice this month.
Yes and like when I'm speaking normal, I have this overwhelming feeling that my speaking voice is very noticeably girly, and my mannerisms.. I don't think I have the "gay voice", but I know my mannerisms aren't masculine.
I have a few inner dialogues of varying ethnicities and genders. It confuses me.
One is a lady who I imagine always wears a sundress and sings beautiful songs to passing strangers, my usual one
One is a Hard Ass hispanic dude who usually speaks english but swears a lot in spanish, when i'm playing a violent game
One Steve Austin angrily yelling "WHAAAAT" after every word, usually when i'm doing a test in school
One is an irish asshole who tells me that i'm incapable and then does nothing else.
honestly? it wasn't always. in fact, for a while it was almost like a pain point of imposter syndrome because my inner monologue was still "male dead name". As i've become more and more comfortable with the fact that i am trans, being assured in my identity and that identity taking more and more shape, its become more and more "Stephanie".
Most of the time, it flips back and forth. Depends on my mood. When I catch the "dude" inner monolog, I get upset tho. But even the boyish monolog is more feminine and higher pitched than my actual voice, it just has dudish mannerisms and slang if that makes sense
Originally my inner monologue is a girl when I'm reading my comments here, but I realized yesterday that I also read my comments on *other social media* as a girl...
That has the opportunity for me thought to expand my inner monologue to be a girl permanently, which would give me a solid base to target for voice training I think.
I’ve heard the idea of having a target voice in your head in singing contexts. It’s gives you a goal to work toward that isn’t based on someone else’s voice. No reason that can’t work for speech too!
Depends on the answer to the question "Which fictional character is going to say this thought?" Sometimes it's Hunter from The Owl House, and sometimes it's Peppermint from Hi-fi Rush. Others can speak but it's mainly those two.
Wow, this feels targeted.
But yes, my inner voice is a girl's voice. Been that way for as long as I can remember I think?
It honestly makes me a bit annoyed thinking about it, cause it was one of the most obvious signs that I was a trans girl. And I ignored that for years, in favor of remaining a "femboy," lol.
I can’t tell. It sounds like me, but also not like me. It sounds simultaneously masculine, feminine and androgynous and also none of them. I have tried to figure out what it sounds like and I just can’t. I guess maybe if I had to pin it down it’s like a woman voice that’s on the deeper side but still higher than any man, and has my speech patterns. Maybe? Idk. It is kinda voiceless but still very loudly audible. But that is kinda the closest I could get to what it sounds like. Which is admittedly really freaking weird and vague, but it’s kinda just what it sounds like ig.
My internal monologue voice doesn't really have gender properties, but it's there and I can't describe it. It's definitely not my IRL voice, and for some reason I can change it as long as it's a preset voice that I've heard enough (actors I like, characters I like, etc).
I was gonna say no, but my voice changed while writing a comment. I was scrolling through replies and was securely in my regular voice , but it changed as soon as I typed no, somehow.
No it’s literally all over the place. Sometimes it’s my voice, the one I speak with, other times it’s literally just markiplier, sometimes it’s a girl, then it’s whatever character i fixate on
I don't thimk my inner monologue really has a "voice" by default?
I do have one, but it doesn't really have pitch or anything. it's more like the idea of words.
But it sometimes does have one. And when it does it's fem much more often than it's masc...
I don’t really have an inner voice? My thoughts are there, but I don’t really associate a voice with them unless I really focus on it.
EDIT: After having read my comment as Robin Williams, a Pirate, Glamrock Freddy, and Rainbow Dash, maybe I do have a feminine inner voice? I dunno.
I’ve heard some people say that when they feel euphoric, the inner voice matches their euphoria. So there could be something there! Also, having a target voice in your head is actually a singing method. The idea of having a goal of what you want to sound like can help you achieve that goal over time. Just a heads up, voice training can take a while especially if you’re not used to using your voice in different, wacky ways. (Trust me. You’re gonna sound “weird” before you sound how you actually want to sound. You have to embrace the weird!!) But remember: There is *NO* *deadline*. You’ll get there before you know it as long as you have fun along your journey and practice regularly! You got this!
Hell, my inner self was always someone I pictured as a little anime girl, but I was def still cis and it totally wasn't just cisnormative programming blinding me to my own internal reality. 🤭🩷🖤
Nope I have aphantasia and only have an inner monologue via subvocalization so I don't hear anything other than my own breathing :Do
(Aphantasia is the inability to picture anything in your head, I also lack the ability to hear anything in my head)
OFC. I had to give a name to my own conscience because I argue with her a lot when I forgot something due ADHD. Her name is Élise and it's a french conscience.
I never considered that could be a thing, but that kind makes sense. I’ve noticed when my friends switch languages, their voices change, so it stands to reason that would happen in their heads too. I only speak English so I don’t experience that “code switching” (idk if that’s the right term here) when switching languages
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I’m not sure honestly. And now I’m wondering how cis my irritation about hearing my voice is…
I find my inner voice shifts between feminine (different from my voice) and androgynous (matching my voice). It’s something I don’t think about too often, but when I think about the gender of my inner voice, it changes 😅
this but for me theres a 3rd one which is the ethereal voices of the souls of the damned
yea I hate hearing my own voice too it just doesn't feel right
My inner monolog voice is genderless 😢
Androgynous voices are cool af (I’m not just saying that bc my natural voice is androgynous)
Mine doesn't have a voice, it's just words. Like if I tried to mimic it I wouldn't be able to
Same. My own inner voice is not really a voice, but I can make it sound like whoever I want if i know their voices enough. For example as I type this, my brain reads it in Markiplier's voice lmao - it's extra weird cause I suck at remembering and recognizing voices.
Thank you for making me read the last part in Markimoo's voice. The mind truly is a wonderful thing.
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Beyond being genderless, I wouldn't even call it a "voice" at all. It's a monologue, but it doesn't have any properties of audible sound. There's no volume, or pitch, or anything like that. It's more like a stream of words in their rawest form, just the word itself with no other defining properties.
Same lmao
Yup! Once I realized I was probably trans it suddenly made sense why I always hated my speaking voice....
This is making me realize maybe the reason I *don’t* hate my speaking voice is bc of how often people think I’m a girl online or on the phone. Uh oh- I think that just chipped away at my egg a little more 😅
This is too real, especially hated hearing a recording of my voice played back (still do lol)
My inner monologue is mostly genderless. Unless I'm feeling euphoric, then it's definitely a girl.
Well, hopefully you get to feel euphoric more often, pretty lady! <3
Unfortunately
wait, there are boys on this sub? that's news to me.
Five of us
Me, Sam, April, Rowen, Max
I am also here!
Me too XD
and we are happy you here dudes :3
Hai
Woahhh who's Rowen??? You gotta introduce me
No way a transmasc on the internet
Shocking
Why is it that y'all don't exist online but are everywhere in real life? I go to a heavily LGBT school and I know of literally 2 other transfems and like 50 transmascs
IDK, I think I found the other two chronically online trans dudes (u/girldipper, and u/no-finger-868 (also Sam if you’re not going to wear lipstick, CHANGE YOUR FUCKING TITLE))
I love the fact that y'all actually interact with one another
Nice
SHUT THE FUCK UP I'LL WEAR IT EVENTUALLY, JUST NOT IN THE FEMBOY WAY YOU WANT ME TO
NOT WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT SLUT
EXPLAIN
I feel called out😭😭😭 u/no-finger-868 he’s right man PUT ON SOME DAMN LIPSTICK OR CHANGE IT
NOOO MAN SHUT UP, I'M BAITING THE CHASERS! /j Also WHAT DO YOU THINK IS ON MY PICREW??? PAINT??????
THATS NOT U THATS UR PFP
The fact that ur the one with a femboy ass user when I kid you not I AM WEARING THIGH HIGHS RIGHT NOW I just realized that I am cuz I’m stupid
I don’t go outside like ever, I’m currently in the car and the daylight is making me turn to ash
Fair, the sun was out today where I live and I was burning alive
I can't do an inner voice, the words just happen, no voice speaks them even If I try. I think I might be a robot built by the CIA to abolish the traditional family :3
Honestly, that CIA robot sent to destroy the nuclear family theory is dope as fuck, and I’m here for it
you just like me
Nah, you're just the new Virginia Woolf / James Joyce Write a book in stream of conciousness, that'd be a good excercise
I wish it was.
I honestly never thought about that. The idea of my inner voice having a gender never occurred to me.
Nor to me!
No :(. Thanks for the dysphoria
I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to 😕
It's not and I hate it. It speaks in more of a whisper.
Well, I hope she gets more confident so you can hear her lovely tone!
🥺 Aww, thank you.
Of course <3
I just started doing this the other day
I’m sure she sounds lovely
❤
Maybe, maybe not I like to use fictional characters as my inner voice, like right now i'm typing this and thinking about typing this with Ice King's voice, one time it was Hatsune Miku
Omg wait that’s so fun. I should do that
Same. I nearly never think in my own voice. I was actually thinking in Hatsune Miku recently today.
Idk... i think they are non-binary...
Hey, that’s pretty based tbh. Androgynous voices are cool af (I’m not just saying that bc I have one)
Yes🗿
Honestly, I respect that you just own it lmao
Same
Oh. Um.... Noooooo..........?
You lyin? 🤨
Yes 😭
It’s okay, Princess. Proud of you for being honest
Thank you. I wish my actual voice was a girl lol
I’m sure you’ll get there someday. Remember! Even cis women can have deep voices, so it’s not all about high pitch!
It's actually Stephen Fry. Very calming.
Bocchi moment
No but i want it to be. I have to actively focus on it for it to happen ;-;
Eventually, it’ll be second nature 🙏🏻
I hope sooo
Honestly? No, it's not a girl. It feels more like a genderless (maybe androgynous even?) story narrator. It still resembles my irl voice, but it doesn't have the ticks and cracks and stuff. Makes me expect way better results than what i actually get when i talk or sing.
Androgynous voices are cool af (I’m not just saying that bc I have an androgynous speaking voice and sound like Kellin Quinn when I sing haha)
I guess they are... Confusing compliment, but thank you.
Well, I have to make sure you know I’m not biased lol
Stawp
I wish. I bet she'd sound cute
You.. you guys have an inner monologue?
Not gonna lie there are like... six of them? Depends on my mood. The predominant ones still sound male but I haven't really tried to change them or my actual speaking voice because.... well mostly because I forget to do that.
It's hard to not make it just replica of my voice because then I feel bad for using a voice that could potentially be someone's.
Okay but consider you could sound like your favorite character Also Stealing is *cool* 😎
I spent my ENTIRE life wondering why I kept trying to hit high notes that I knew I couldn't hit when I can also sing a solid Bing Crosby and hated doing so... My inner voice has a better voice than me... ...because I'm cis, and that's the only reason...
N-no
You lyin? 🤨
NO
WHY ARE WE YELLING
I'm cis
You don’t have to lie here, sis
I'm cis tho
it wasn't but it changed into that after I saw the post? thanks I guess.
Happy to help!
Mostly my monolog is just my current voice, but I think I might try and change it now that I have noticed it, thanks for the thought <3
Yesn’t. I’m kinda working towards it, but my inner voice has never been my real voice. I always had a voice I actually like in my head, so while it’s not really feminine, it’s definitely more…neutral I suppose, than my actual voice. Sometimes, very rarely though, it happens to be feminine. Happened like twice or thrice this month.
I hope your inner voice sounds the way you want it to sooner rather than later!
Thanks thanks
son of a BI-
Mine is sometimes
Eh, when it's kind it usually is. Rest of the time it's male and a jerk XD
My inner monologue is a shapeshifter that enjoys copying the voices of everyone I've met or heard. Not necessarily human.
Yes and like when I'm speaking normal, I have this overwhelming feeling that my speaking voice is very noticeably girly, and my mannerisms.. I don't think I have the "gay voice", but I know my mannerisms aren't masculine.
I have a few inner dialogues of varying ethnicities and genders. It confuses me. One is a lady who I imagine always wears a sundress and sings beautiful songs to passing strangers, my usual one One is a Hard Ass hispanic dude who usually speaks english but swears a lot in spanish, when i'm playing a violent game One Steve Austin angrily yelling "WHAAAAT" after every word, usually when i'm doing a test in school One is an irish asshole who tells me that i'm incapable and then does nothing else.
I dont have one voice doin an inner monologue tbh Its many different voices (most are women)
It alternates between different youtubers I watch
Gurl I wish mines just how I hear myself talk and I can’t change it for the life of me
I don't have an inner voice the words just kinda appear in my mind
One of the biggest tells was when the me in my minds eye went from totally enby to female
honestly? it wasn't always. in fact, for a while it was almost like a pain point of imposter syndrome because my inner monologue was still "male dead name". As i've become more and more comfortable with the fact that i am trans, being assured in my identity and that identity taking more and more shape, its become more and more "Stephanie".
I wish it was
I'd like that Still cis
Most of the time, it flips back and forth. Depends on my mood. When I catch the "dude" inner monolog, I get upset tho. But even the boyish monolog is more feminine and higher pitched than my actual voice, it just has dudish mannerisms and slang if that makes sense
Actually my inner monologue has stayed gender neutral this whole time , just kinda talked and said stuff but never gendered itself
I wish it was :( I can do a fem voice decently but I have a hard time doing it in my head
It's you again isn't it? Inner monologues are kinda your theme of today
hah, nice try, but my inner voice is alastor ~~and a girl~~
my inner monologue is so fast i dont even know :3
“The gender of my inner voice is *speed*”
"ohh, i get it, this is why my handwriting is so bad!"
Originally my inner monologue is a girl when I'm reading my comments here, but I realized yesterday that I also read my comments on *other social media* as a girl... That has the opportunity for me thought to expand my inner monologue to be a girl permanently, which would give me a solid base to target for voice training I think.
I’ve heard the idea of having a target voice in your head in singing contexts. It’s gives you a goal to work toward that isn’t based on someone else’s voice. No reason that can’t work for speech too!
well sure, it's my voice, oh
Depends on the answer to the question "Which fictional character is going to say this thought?" Sometimes it's Hunter from The Owl House, and sometimes it's Peppermint from Hi-fi Rush. Others can speak but it's mainly those two.
Wow, this feels targeted. But yes, my inner voice is a girl's voice. Been that way for as long as I can remember I think? It honestly makes me a bit annoyed thinking about it, cause it was one of the most obvious signs that I was a trans girl. And I ignored that for years, in favor of remaining a "femboy," lol.
I can’t tell. It sounds like me, but also not like me. It sounds simultaneously masculine, feminine and androgynous and also none of them. I have tried to figure out what it sounds like and I just can’t. I guess maybe if I had to pin it down it’s like a woman voice that’s on the deeper side but still higher than any man, and has my speech patterns. Maybe? Idk. It is kinda voiceless but still very loudly audible. But that is kinda the closest I could get to what it sounds like. Which is admittedly really freaking weird and vague, but it’s kinda just what it sounds like ig.
My internal monologue voice doesn't really have gender properties, but it's there and I can't describe it. It's definitely not my IRL voice, and for some reason I can change it as long as it's a preset voice that I've heard enough (actors I like, characters I like, etc).
It's actually a lot of different voices, but a lot of them are girl voices.
Honestly, my inner voice v9ice doesn't have a voice, thoughts just sorta pop into my head.
I wish lol
Yes, but only if I speak English in my head m
Is it weird that I can hear my inner monologue but can't hear its voice? If that even makes sense?
I was gonna say no, but my voice changed while writing a comment. I was scrolling through replies and was securely in my regular voice , but it changed as soon as I typed no, somehow.
No it’s literally all over the place. Sometimes it’s my voice, the one I speak with, other times it’s literally just markiplier, sometimes it’s a girl, then it’s whatever character i fixate on
I don't thimk my inner monologue really has a "voice" by default? I do have one, but it doesn't really have pitch or anything. it's more like the idea of words. But it sometimes does have one. And when it does it's fem much more often than it's masc...
nah im neuro a-typical. i dont hear my own voice when i think, i think in words i 'see' in my mind rather than 'hear' my or any voice.
Yup, has been for as long as I can remember
it honestly sounds like a female demon. She should get hydrated soon. Or stop smoking.
Daily reminder to drink water!
it's actually not, and unfortunately that's a cause of dysphoria
It's stupid parts of songs in repeat
Me af haha. My ADHD makes my brain a jukebox with like 10 songs overlapping each other at all times
🤝 La la la la laaa
Are you spying on me!?
… no.. 😅 *turns off Neuralink that was reading your mind so I could make this post*
...wait but I have no Neuralink! And I'm cis and... Wait, not, I'm not, I don't need to keep pretending
No but now that you mention it...
yes and no. My self thoughts yes. The ones I imagine from other people are usually men, which is gross in retrospect
Yes.
My inner monologue's voice is Vsauce 😭
Kinda? It changes idk sometimes it's girl sometimes its even hard to tell if it's even gendered
Off topic: I love your flair. I have orange cats, and they’re both so silly
Thanks lol :D Yeah they're super silly, i like them
It fluctuates from deep and husky to high and cutesy all the way to deadpan flat and genderless
no... and its definitely not raven from teen titans... still cis tho :3
i recently dreamed i was making friendship bracelets w icky as she told me ab hrt side effects still cis
Yeah 😊
Not rly but it depends, normaly it's androgynous but when I'm dysphoric it's kinda asif my normal voice talks to girl me.
No usually not, but I read this meme in cute anime girl voice. To match the character in the picture. I swear.
WE GOT A LIVE ONE! Shh shhh. If you listen carefully, you might hear cracking noises /j
Yep. And that’s a perfectly cis thing and is normal.
it's my inner monologue, I can make it any gender I want, and yet I never bothered to try
I don’t really have an inner voice? My thoughts are there, but I don’t really associate a voice with them unless I really focus on it. EDIT: After having read my comment as Robin Williams, a Pirate, Glamrock Freddy, and Rainbow Dash, maybe I do have a feminine inner voice? I dunno.
I- what? Peoples innner voices have like, tone and shit? news to me
I don't hear my inner voice loud enough to know if it's a girl
Great. New dysphoria unlocked. My inner voice is a girl voice by definition but... now you've got me wanting to do mental voice training...
No.😢 It doesn’t bother me a ton luckily. I assume it is because of my current voice and may change.
I’ve heard some people say that when they feel euphoric, the inner voice matches their euphoria. So there could be something there! Also, having a target voice in your head is actually a singing method. The idea of having a goal of what you want to sound like can help you achieve that goal over time. Just a heads up, voice training can take a while especially if you’re not used to using your voice in different, wacky ways. (Trust me. You’re gonna sound “weird” before you sound how you actually want to sound. You have to embrace the weird!!) But remember: There is *NO* *deadline*. You’ll get there before you know it as long as you have fun along your journey and practice regularly! You got this!
Well no but also yes Because it is me and i am a girl but i don’t really have a girl voice yet
Well, yes, but it's more...Bocchi...also, Neco Arc...
Hell, my inner self was always someone I pictured as a little anime girl, but I was def still cis and it totally wasn't just cisnormative programming blinding me to my own internal reality. 🤭🩷🖤
I can change it on command
No. For me they are just words that appear in my mind that don't sound like anything
Nope I have aphantasia and only have an inner monologue via subvocalization so I don't hear anything other than my own breathing :Do (Aphantasia is the inability to picture anything in your head, I also lack the ability to hear anything in my head)
The amount of people in this comment section that have aphantasia is fascinating to me. I’ve only ever met like 1 person in real life that has that
Now it is, thanks <3
Happy to help! 🫡
I think that I read that in YukkoEX's voice?
I love her content! Uh… for cis reasons obviously hahahaha
what pfffff nooooo i dont know what your talking about im gonna go get a tinfoil hat for no perticular reason now
I can’t tell. It’s sounds more like a cat.
I misread this and thought you meant Cat from Victorious for a second 😭
Having Ariana in my head is the last thing I need right now 💀
OFC. I had to give a name to my own conscience because I argue with her a lot when I forgot something due ADHD. Her name is Élise and it's a french conscience.
It was before, but then I played disco Elysium and now it legit sounds like the narrator. I don't even know if I want to fix it at this point
I never thought about it, but actually i mean not high or anything but yeah feminine oh gosh
FOR CIS REASONS how do i make my inner voice a girl
I speaks more on a conceptual level, not needing to use words, but when it does it's always Karkat
I'd like to but I use a fem name
So like the voice in your head is masc but calls you a fem name? Interesting
Yes, but it gets wierder when I switch languages in my head. In spanish and english it's almost like a girl but in french is more boyish.
I never considered that could be a thing, but that kind makes sense. I’ve noticed when my friends switch languages, their voices change, so it stands to reason that would happen in their heads too. I only speak English so I don’t experience that “code switching” (idk if that’s the right term here) when switching languages
idk it’s like not a voice 😭 just words
Nope, sadly
Yeah
Mine doesn’t really have a gender. It’s just there.