How the fuck does she maintain the retarded loli voice while drunk?
I consistently see people assert that it apparently is genuinely her real voice but I don't know how much stock I put in that.
It's her real voice (maybe played up a bit for stream, but it's in the "natural" range). She's had her mum on stream before, and she doesn't flinch at her loli voice, but gets weirded out by some of the more "womanly" voices Shondo does for ASMR. Her Bri'ish accent comes out more when talking to her mum. 5:19 in this clip for when she does the deeper voice:
schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia + bipolar. This isn't a Mikeneko situation where Mikeneko willingly allows her worst impulses, Shondo has absolutely no capacity of controlling herself.
Also her dad is dead, IIRC her mom has cancer and is dying or has died, and I don't remember anything about siblings. She has no immediate family to look after her.
She lives in the UK, not exactly the bastion of helping people with health issues. NHS sucks and would care more about Raheed who came over in the boat than Shondo.
Unironically her best fate would be streaming from a padded cell.
I'm not up to date on my Shondo lore (haven't watched streams in a year). Did her mum die or get diagnosed? I know her mum's kind of sickly, but I didn't know it was cancer. IIRC, it's her maternal grandfather that's dead/dying.
Shondo has a younger brother, and is the closest to "normal", I suppose, but isn't at the point of being independent yet. Her biological dad is absent, but they treat him as basically dead. Her mum dated some more abusive guys afterwards, from what I remember, and it's part of what screwed Shondo up. Shondo has gone on record as saying that if it wasn't for streaming, their family would be living in a council house.
I have seen a clip of her a while back, I think it was before she became a vtuber, and she had a normal voice.
That's interesting, because I watched her ASMR vids before I was even into VTubers. When I started seeing clips and streams of her as a chuuba, she was a dead ringer, and sure enough, I recognized the voice from her old ASMR. The voice is a bit different, but it's definitely not pitched up or anything people usually do to fake a loli voice. She was very underage at the time she first started doing ASMR, so part of it might just be attributable to physiological changes.