My speech sounds ok to me but for some reason people can often have difficulty making out what I am saying. Maybe I come across more than my fair share of people with poor hearing?!
A recent example. I went to get a reduction on the price of a dna kit over the phone and had to give my post code. I said xxx AQ and the person on the other end kept repeating back xxx A2.
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My mom says I talk too loud and too fast.
I can barely hear myself over all the background noise, tho, so I don’t know why she can hear me so well.
Could be my hyper hearing from being sz, I dunno, but everything seems loud so I talk loud enough to be heard…which is too loud I guesd
I tend to talk quite softly except when emotionally heated.
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For some time, especially when I was not doing well, but perhaps also when I was already getting better, I had this tendency, an almost unconsciousl tendency, in the sense that I did this without being aware of it being unusual - or otherwise unnecessery for the purposes of the specific occasion -though I did have my reasons for it when pressed or asked for them, to premise my statements with all sorts of clauses that were supposed to fixate the meaning of my actual statement, precluding any objections to it and so forth, which had me ending up speaking in rather long sentences. Like that one.
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I took a college Speech class.
waste of money.
happens every time here. was better when “self-employed” and answering calls.
for me, I tend to talk quite softly except when in episodes
Pretty bad to be honest. Had to get help when I was younger
Mine is getting much better. Apparently running a radio station out of your basement gives you lots of opportunity to practice.
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I have a funny twang to my accent. A lot of folk think I’m Irish or Canadian. That can throw people.
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apparently, my voice is African
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Years ago when I went walk about from hospital a report they gave the police said I sounded South African!
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I have a big fascination with acting which has helped me. I never did theater work but I like to imagine I’m playing a character when I talk. Helps me fake confidence, but you can’t fake forever. So I’m very erratic. Sometimes spacey, or irritably confused, sometimes pretty confident sounding.
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I think I piss off women sometimes. I’ll have suave looking nonverbal communication, but then my words become moronic. So for a moment they’ll be intrigued and then thrown through a loop…
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at least they notice you, eh?
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You ever talk to those people that can’t stand slow talkers? So they’ll always be cutting you off? My dad’s like that and it annoys me sometimes. So now when I talk to him i try to keep my answers simpler and spurt out the words.
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I sometimes talk a bit fast or I hesitate or sound unsure of myself.
Lately I’ve started to stutter a bit.
I have poverty of speech a negative symptom, in a two way conversation it isn’t apparent unless I am forced to contribute a lot. In other words, I can’t go on a tangent, I can’t steer the conversation or dominate it, I can only respond.
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My brain falls into and out of focus. I always feel a need to change the subject while everyone else is so into it. And then when the subject changes I have something to say about the previous topic…
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Luckily I’ve never had disorganized speech or anything like that. My therapist says at times she thinks my speech is “pressured” whatever that means. I’ve also been told throughout my life that at times I talk too fast for people to understand. I think that’s just because I think quickly too though.
during psychosis - I talk too fast and it is a word salad anyway =) plus I have amnesia so I repeat the same thing over and over
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Bad.
Had a lot of help growing up to get me to talk did not talk to I was seven shutter a bit now it was so bad I would shutter each letter and made taking close to impossable.
Now I have sm and when I do talk is so quietly most people cannot hear me only talk freely with my mom and my brother my dad about half freely as he is away a lot.
Hate talking the way is feels doing it my own sound or the way I think I sound bothers me greatly and the language issues as well.
Talking is greatly over rated
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