Anyone else speak really quietly?

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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?

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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People say I'm too shouty sometimes

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.

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

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 .

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)

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

I generally talk quietly. I seem to have this feeling that it would be a better world if everybody did, and if noise pollution was cleaned up more vigorously. To my mind there's something wrong when everybody's raising their voices to be heard against everybody else.

But I'm well able to sing loud if the song and the occasion warrants it. I've been that way since I started recovering from my voice breaking, and I realised that if I pushed against my upper pitch limit and delivered a high phrase with enough power, then instead of my voice breaking into an uncontrolled falsetto it sounded quite good. It was years before I got into doing lower-pitch, quieter vocals.

I also talk a bit louder when I'm reading aloud. Mumbling a book doesn't work.

Yes I almost whisper sometimes and I have a soft tone most of the time but if I'm with people I don't know then I sometimes struggle to talk at all

I have periods or situations when I speak too quietly and I hear that I behave like a shy girl (I’m 36, woman) but other times I hear that I speak too loud and too much. I’m not sure what it depends on. Maybe on that how comfortable I feel or maybe also on the topic I talk about. If it’s my interest then it’s too much and too loud but in an office I have some business in, it’s quiet and shy.

When I was young, I used to speak too quietly for many older people to hear.

Now I'm suffering from all the young people who speak to quietly for me to hear.