Do you ever hear your parents in your own voice?

[dustybiker2]

I heard my mother's laugh in my voice as plain as day. Everyone turned and looked at me. Those little moments give me a warm and fuzzy feeling.

Do you ever hear your parents in tone of voice or just a laugh?

[sirderpsalot123]

My dad would get irrationality angry and the person he would yell at the most was me. The few times when I've lost my temper I realised I sound a lot like him. I don't like it and I try not to yell lol

[dustybiker2]

🤗 He should be proud of you.

[sirderpsalot123]

@dustybiker2 🤗

[sirderpsalot123]

Thanks for MHO 😎

[Charliefretz329]

Yeah, especially on answering machines I hear my dad saying my spiel. 😳

[dustybiker2]

That's shocking isn't it?

[Charliefretz329]

Definitely 🤣

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Mine is, "What's the big deal?"

My father used to say that all the time being very unfiltered and making light of even the most serious of situations. I'm oddly becoming my father this way.

[Fukushima earthquake with everyone panicking around me; my wife and I were in Sendai]. Me: "What's the big deal? It's just an earthquake."

[Someone getting offended over something I said]. Me: "What's the big deal? It's just a joke."

I'm really becoming my father that way. I'm not sure it's a good thing. 😅

[dustybiker2]

Sounds unavoidable lol

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I'm hoping I don't reach his level of lacking filter. One time I visited him in Japan in my late teens. He had an English school at the time teaching Japanese high school students. So he introduced them to me like this:

Father: Hey, this is Kenzo. As you can see, he is very fat. His mother feeds him too much. You are so fat!

Father: This is Mayu. She is a lesbian. That means she likes to have sex with other girls. Isn't that strange? It's okay and I don't mind because I'm a very open-minded person.

Father: This is Ken. He is very handsome as you can see but not very bright. At least he is good at sports.

Me [Taking father off to the side]: Dad! What you said was so rude! You shouldn't say that about your students!
Father: What's the big deal? I am only speaking the truth.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

He's the ultimate case in terms of not understanding why people get offended over words but he went through a really harsh childhood living through the famine and bombings of Shizuoka in WW2. He used to tell us stories like how he'd be so happy just to rummage through garbage to find leftover fish bones he could eat. He also lost family members including his sister due to the famine that followed.

I think after going through all that, everything to him that takes to upset people seems trivial. "What's the big deal?" That's his ultimate expression. Yet despite living a relatively easy life compared to his, I'm still becoming him to some degree. 😅

[dustybiker2]

That I can understand.

[wiltingrosepetal]

When I repeat their mannerisms, yeah. My dad has this very specific groan he makes whenever he's engrossed in something and people are talking to him. I've started doing it too and I sound just like him 💀

[dustybiker2]

Fun if you ever do it naturally at the same time

[Account]

Sometimes when I eat something really nice, I make similar sounds like my father, I do it subconsciously, but there are times that I have paid attention and realized I was doing that.
Sometimes I have also caught myself using the same tone as my mother.
Also I have a very similar voice with my sister. Sometimes we even laugh similarly.

[AaronKrieger]

Oh, definitely.

I have picked up some of my father's mannerisms, types of things he would say, and we sound similar far away (he has a southern accent, so it's different up-close). I know my grandmother says I remind her of him when we talk sometimes.

[exitseven]

No but when I look in the mirror I see my father looking back at me.

[dustybiker2]

I looked the spitting image of my mother when 18 compared to her at 18.

[1073sucks]

Nope but I do hear my grandma in my moms voice at certain times when she laughs, and it’s so sweet and nice because my grandma is gone so it feels like a part of her is here the moments she sounds like her.

[Sun_Kim-Ai]

Not exactly my father (he had a nasal voice and a stammer), but many people said I have a very deep voice like my grandfather, complete with the occasional raspy "roar" when ending a sentence.

[Wiredone]

Everyone that knew my father said I look and sound just like him

[dustybiker2]

That's lovely.
Those people who knew our parents are so precious when we lose them.

[Miah04]

No. Not really

I am assuming your mother is no longer here?

[dustybiker2]

Yes.

[Miah04]

*big hugs*

[dustybiker2]

*hugging it out*

[Anonymous]

Since I was little people have told me I'm similar to my dad (skin, hair, eyes) Now that I'm in my 20's I've started noticing my laugh has changed and I laugh like my dad. But I've realized I've also grown pretty similar to him in the way of talking, thinking, and doing stuff.

[Opinion Owner]

This makes me happy, since he's such a good person.

[TheSpaceGnome]

Nope, I sound quite different from both of my parents.

[Friendlybro79]

Yes sometimes. It's funny

[dustybiker2]

It brings me to a stop lol

[Fuentes]

Nah never lol

[Miah04]

That's because I'm in your head🧐

[Fuentes]

@Miah04 you to young to be my parent lol

[Miah04]

That not what i mean. I meant I'm in your head being to distracting

[Nice222]

All the time!!

[BCRanger10]

Yes, I do.