Did your speech change after diagnosis?

Hi, yes, for NTs social interaction and speech with emotion come naturally. For autistic people it needs energy - attention on both - speech and gestures separately. I'm not diagnosed,  suspected. For me it's like that- if I put my energy and consciously try to make an expression- I do. Usually it results in people staring me in a weird way. When I'm tired, the first thing that dissappears are my social skills and body language. I tend to concentrate on what to say, structure of the sentence,  I repeat it in my head before saying and few times afterwards often angry at myself, because I could say it differently. 

Once I made a picture to explain to my therapist. On one side I drew few lines with equal width, there I wrote separately - speech, expression, other stimuli. They fit perfectly together. On tge other side I drew one wide line and there I wrote "what I want to say, how to say that, at what moment, structure of the sentence". There was no more place for any additional information coming in. It's a focus on one thing excluding other things. That's why I usually speak flat and I used to hear from my managers in different companies, in retail and customer service,  that I have to modulate my voice, that I speak too monotonously. My husband knows me the way I am but it happened in the past to tell me that my voice or tone somehow changes. It was long before I got any suspicion about autism. The suspicion didn't change my tone or behaviour, I'm not sure how will that be after the diagnosis. If I get positive autism diagnosis. Maybe it's something else.

Hi, yes, for NTs social interaction and speech with emotion come naturally. For autistic people it needs energy - attention on both - speech and gestures separately. I'm not diagnosed,  suspected. For me it's like that- if I put my energy and consciously try to make an expression- I do. Usually it results in people staring me in a weird way. When I'm tired, the first thing that dissappears are my social skills and body language. I tend to concentrate on what to say, structure of the sentence,  I repeat it in my head before saying and few times afterwards often angry at myself, because I could say it differently. 

Once I made a picture to explain to my therapist. On one side I drew few lines with equal width, there I wrote separately - speech, expression, other stimuli. They fit perfectly together. On tge other side I drew one wide line and there I wrote "what I want to say, how to say that, at what moment, structure of the sentence". There was no more place for any additional information coming in. It's a focus on one thing excluding other things. That's why I usually speak flat and I used to hear from my managers in different companies, in retail and customer service,  that I have to modulate my voice, that I speak too monotonously. My husband knows me the way I am but it happened in the past to tell me that my voice or tone somehow changes. It was long before I got any suspicion about autism. The suspicion didn't change my tone or behaviour, I'm not sure how will that be after the diagnosis. If I get positive autism diagnosis. Maybe it's something else.