Am I the only one who talks like this?

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The most I can talk is one sentence and only when someone talks to me first. And when I do talk I first take a deep breath. I can talk 'normally' to family but anyone else I just can't help taking a deep breath first. My voice is also very low (I'm female).

I don't talk like that but there are likely to be others who do.
Don't worry. Relax and enjoy being you.

If I'm feeling very anxious or overwhelmed, it can effect my speaking in all sorts of odd ways, and one of them is very like you describe. I'll breathe in deeply when I realise that I'll have to speak, and I'll quite often hold it for quite a while if the other person is still finishing. Then I try to get the whole sentence out in a single breath, getting squeakier and squeakier as I run out of air - followed by a gasp for the next breath, usually. I have to know exactly what I'm going to say beforehand, and to have practised in my head, too - once it get's that hard for me to speak, I can't decide what to say as I go along at all.

It's not often for me that it's that bad - but there's kind of a scale between being able to talk fluently and that, with a bit in the middle where I pause, stutter, repeat bits, forget words, and that kind of thing.