Has your family heard you scream in pain?

[Honeycombe8]

This was a question asked by the attorneys to the family members who identified their relative's voice on the tape.

I was thinking....my family heard the sound of my voice screaming in pain when I was a child and young teen (don't ask), but not for decades. Do our voices change that much? I think I'd recognize my brother's voice anywhere, even if it's a scream (I've heard screams from him, tho not from pain). I'd have trouble recognizing a whisper, though.

I THINK I'd recognize my sisters' voices, or most of them, because our voices are VERY similar. So I think they'd recognize mine.

My mother has passed away. Not sure if my Dad would recognize my voice, since he didn't raise us.

Would YOUR family recognize your scream on a tape?

[rdharma]

1. It was fear...... not pain. nt

[Buzz Clik]

3. I love roller coasters, but I'm a big chicken.

They know what screams of abject fear from me sound like.

[Buzz Clik]

2. Yeah, mine would.

My ankle is funky and has a nasty habit of dislocating. I have to force it back in place quickly -- and painfully -- so I close a door and push. Nasty, nasty surge of pain that is gone the second that ankle is back in place.

Yeah, they know what it sounds like.

[raptor_rider]

4. Oh yes.

They have heard me in pain. Natural child birth.

I can hear my kids voices in crowed places. I can hear mom, from many kids, however I can always tell my children's voices. It's ingrained into the brain.

[Whisp]

5. a mom knows the sounds of her child.

laughing, crying ,screaming, whatever.

It's built in. I could recognize my kids voice in a crowd of loud kids.

[Kber]

12. The only person I sometimes confuse with my son is my nephew

The similarity is really something and has been since birth. They are only weeks apart in age and the whole family can't tell them apart.

They look nothing alike, tho.

[Hekate]

6. I know my dog's bark. I knew my infants' cries. I would know my family members'...

... voices, no matter what. Once on the way home from playing with a friend, I heard my younger brother scream from several houses away and I knew exactly who it was -- he was 7 and had just sliced his arm open.

I would know.

[H2O Man]

7. No.

I deal with pain differently that most people.

I would, however, recognize any one of my children (all now teens to late 20s).

[htuttle]

8. I don't really scream when I'm in pain

I tend to say stuff like this: "@#$/%&()!(^!#$!!!"

[rdharma]

13. I say "@#$/%&()!(^!#$!!!" when I'm in pain.

I say "Oh, @#$/%&()!(^!#$!!!" when something scary bad is about to happen.

[GObamaGO]

9. Yes they have, and yes they would

And I would also recognize their screaming in pain as well.

[kestrel91316]

10. No, but my assistant got an earful recently when a patient of mine sank a claw into

a nerve in the back of my hand.

[gollygee]

11. I had a child fall and get hurt among other children but out of my line of sight

and I IMMEDIATELY knew it was her and that it was serious.

[giftedgirl77]

14. yes,

but the deeper point is a mother knows her children, I think it's a natural instinct. I can pick my kids out of a crowd & can also tell the difference between genuine pain &the over dramatic I'm trying to get my older bro in trouble sounds. I've also heard my children scared to death & am pretty confident that I could pick that out as well.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

15. I'm a screamer

My husband and son can hear me screaming from vast distances on our farm.... the reason is rattlesnakes! I've walked into three so far this year. One was coiled up and so fast asleep, he didn't even rattle and my foot was inches from treading on him. He forgot to say, "Don't tread on me".

Yes, they'd recognize my ear-piercing screams on tape.

[TrogL]

16. I've got a bad hip

When it goes I scream the house down

[Hekate]

17. I thought Trayvon's mother was a very dignified woman on the stand

She is a bereaved mother, for Gods' sake, and I am sure hearing her son on tape like that was a knife through her heart. She knew.

[Pelican]

18. She may certainly believe it but an honest juror should accept...

... that she wouldn't say anything else.

[HipChick]

19. I fell into a sinkhole...not one of my family recognized my screams..

I think they thought I was an alleycat..it was dark at night, took them hours to find me..

[winter is coming]

20. No, I only read DU when they're out of earshot. n/t