fracured mind - bobby

[eridanusus.livejournal.com]

we just watched that thing on 60 minutes about Robert Oxnam, Chris started crying when they showed the first clip of bobby skating. It was really really weird. Tian just goes, wow my heart tastes salty. apaprenly she means, like, we had this feeling like...our heart was in our throat, she said it was so high up we could taste it. I dunno. it was really freaky to wach even though he wouldn't let them talk o any of the others they still showed Bobby skating and it was like... that's me. Even though we don't like change voice and stuff like he said, but yeah.

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[little-heather.livejournal.com]

We missed that show when it was on here. But something you said made me curious. Do people in other systems voices change a lot depending on who is out? Ours do some and we have been told we all sound a little different from each other, but we dont always hear it. It seems to change somedays more than others though. I was totally mute for a long time in here and its taken me a year to learn how to talk outloud but my voice only comes out in a whisper even in the body so far. So I was just wondering how everyone elses voices worked.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

We have our own voices, but often are too shy to speak as ourselves and instead use our public voice. When we are not shy, it's often easy to tell who is out by our voices.

[tir-nan-og.livejournal.com]

I think it's quite common. Actually, we don't do too well with that. We do have noticably different voices, and sometimes I feel that it's embarrassing, if not dangerous. But generally only two of us, who are almost indestinguishable in terms of voice and body mannerisms, are out in public.

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how common it is, but we often find it easier when we don't get hung up on trying to tie actions to specific people. Often actions are taken here because common knowledge says it's the best thing to do, or what you usually do, without being keyed to anyone's specific sense of identity. I personally suspect that a lot of single people perform a lot of their daily actions and routines without a strong sense of unified indivisible identity driving it, just experience or instinct, but they don't have the experience of another "I" in their head for the comparison.

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

We're not so distinct that those of us who frontrun don't get mistaken for one another. People who've been around us a long time learn to tell most of us apart eventually. Often people use 'public voice,' as mentioned below, either because they have no good sense of what their own voice sounds like, or because the body just can't sound like their voice. Some days our voice seems to have a deeper pitch than others; I'm not sure if that's related to diet, hormones, or a combination of things.

[eridanusus.livejournal.com]

Public voice for us. We have a paperbag/shell with no personality or anything of their own who's always at front. Made it easier for us to blend in when we were younger, apparently.

[redrainstorm.livejournal.com]

We haven't slightly different voice changes and prefer it that way so when someone else is out those close to us can know we switched, but those who don't know we're multiple can't tell the difference. Even the guys only have a slight change in voice (except for one) and sometimes that upsets them...

[pleiades-rising.livejournal.com]

We have slight voice changes, and a few have really drastic voice changes. Vevey has an Italian accent and people who talk to me on the phone say I have a higher-pitched voice than Afiel, even though I don't really hear any difference.