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BuggoftheSea
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29 Jan 2025, 9:48 pm

I speak quietly and a lot of people can’t hear me. Even when I try to speak loudly, I’m lucky if I can get up to conversation volume.

I also have a lot of sound sensitivity and I was wondering if they could be related. Like I wanted to avoid hearing my own voice. Does that make sense to anyone?



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29 Jan 2025, 10:36 pm

If my sense of hearing is more or less screwed depending on which phase of fluctuations I'm dealing with, yes.

Sometimes it's too quiet because it's loud, sometimes it's too loud because everything is too loud and already dealing with sheer quantity of irrelevant crap.


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30 Jan 2025, 12:24 am

BuggoftheSea wrote:
I speak quietly and a lot of people can’t hear me. Even when I try to speak loudly, I’m lucky if I can get up to conversation volume.

I also have a lot of sound sensitivity and I was wondering if they could be related. Like I wanted to avoid hearing my own voice. Does that make sense to anyone?


My choir instructors always tried to get me to sing louder. I can sing louder when I’m alone but softer when I’m in a group.

Like you, I am sensitive to sound.

I’m highly sensitive to everything.



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30 Jan 2025, 12:25 am

People say I'm too shouty sometimes


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30 Jan 2025, 10:02 am

I am sound sensitive and also speak quietly, any time I speak loudly it's without meaning to really or knowing and others have said something as it can normally be in a place i am not supposed to be loud. I can't really yell stuff if needed much either so I wonder if is linked? or if people ask me to and I will not do so.



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30 Jan 2025, 11:52 am

Garthilium wrote:
I can't really yell stuff if needed much either so I wonder if is linked? or if people ask me to and I will not do so.


Same, if they want me to yell so they can hear over something, I try but I can't.



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31 Jan 2025, 8:51 pm

Sometimes I'm too loud. There's a new guy at work who's really quiet. He has a nice voice though.



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01 Feb 2025, 12:01 am

Just speak softly most my life but learned to get louder, when I am hurt physically .... Am gettin hoarse if i try to raise my voice ,for more than a few moments . :oops:


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01 Feb 2025, 12:04 am

Jakki wrote:
Just speak softly most my life but learned to get louder, when I am hurt physically .... Am gettin hoarse if i try to raise my voice ,for more than a few moments . :oops:


When you raise your voice, do you project from your diaphragm or just put more stress on your voice box?


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Today, 6:37 am

I never think of myself as being quiet but several people have commented that I am/was as a child. I get told to speak up more frequently than I get told to tone it down. (but that sometimes happens too)


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I am a quiet speaker. I have to remind myself to speak up more when I’m talking to someone.