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[etana.livejournal.com]

I thought ya'll would appreciate an article on "fake voices" and how they are "male because male voices are easier to fabricate" neuro-wise.

I found it annoying and thought someone else would like to share in my annoyance.

Hi! Welcome to annoying journalistic reporting of academic studies, and annoying academic studies that end up being so completely bullshit....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4675103.stm

happy reading :)

Oh there's a lovely thread, by the way, in feminist on this article, which is where I got the article. Feel free to munch on in :)

Comments

[littlebus.livejournal.com]

It's more referring to "audio hallucinations" - the "hallucination" part implying fake - than to actual other people talking to you that just happen to live inside.

My cousin has paranoid delusions with audio hallucinations, where "voices" tell him his roommate is poisoning the food and other delightful things. It's a different phenomenon than MPD/DID/insert other name here

[duathir.livejournal.com]

Yes, precisely. Thank you for putting it so clearly.

I hear my sister's subvocalizations constantly, whether she is corporeal and I am not, or vice versa. She internally 'speaks' everything she reads and a great deal of what she thinks; it can be very difficult to ignore. However, the difference between her voice and external voices is always unmistakeable.

Apparently I do not usually 'talk to myself' in subvocalization. My brother often sings in his own language when he is not corporeal, but very rarely uses English words to communicate with us, preferring instead to project direct emotion/impulse. He does not sound particularly 'male' or 'female' when he sings either aloud or incorporeally, his preferred vocal range being roughly midway between tenor and alto. Mine is between baritone and tenor; our sister's is between alto and soprano.

[etana.livejournal.com]

see i worry if people that aren't multiple-savvy distinguish between teh two. I've been to a few therapists/counselors who've assumed that 'hearing voices' was the same for multiples and schizophrenics and paranoid folk and those on drugs (and I've *heard voices* because of some bad *trips*)....so I get nervous when I read stuff like this

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

It seems like a sizable portion of them don't-- we have heard of systems diagnosed with schizophrenia because they were asked if they heard voices and said yes, and whatever boneheaded counselor they were talking to didn't bother to ask if they heard the voices outside or inside their head.

[etana.livejournal.com]

mhm....