| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
SilverPikmin
Deinonychus
Joined: Aug 02, 2008
Posts: 306
Location: Merseyside, England, UK
|
 Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:34 pm Post subject: |
 |
|
I'm sort of opposite to your problem: I have trouble understanding people. I hear them fine, but if it's sudden or unexpected, I often have to make them repeat it. I usually find myself in a conversation just guessing what the person just said; fortunately people are quite predictable.  Then I'm never quite sure how to ask them to repeat... 'What?' gets to the point and I use that the most but apparently it's rude (everyone uses it though), 'Sorry' doesn't feel right to use constantly, and can be misunderstood, and 'Pardon' seems excessively polite. |
|
| Back to top |
|
PikaYoshi
Snowy Owl
Joined: Jul 28, 2009
Age: 15
Posts: 132
Location: California
|
| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 5:20 pm Post subject: |
|
|
People can never hear me when I'm trying to speak loud enough, but at other times when I'm not trying to be loud, they can hear me perfectly.
I think that people are pretending that they can't hear me just to annoy me. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Mark95
Emu Egg
Joined: Aug 29, 2009
Age: 14
Posts: 8
|
| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:10 pm Post subject: |
|
|
People either tell me to speak up or to BE QUIET!!!! Usually to speak up though.
Once this person said to me "You talk really fast and quiet." |
|
| Back to top |
|
Solei
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Jun 24, 2009
Posts: 49
|
| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:32 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| I think I used to talk at what's considered the normal volume. Now I speak quieter. It sounds normal to me, but I also have really good hearing, so me talking normally feels like I'm talking louder than others would say. People get on to me for it all the time. >.< |
|
| Back to top |
|
luvmycutebaby
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Aug 27, 2009
Age: 32
Posts: 48
Location: US
|
| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:23 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I'm soft spoken so I often have to repeat myself, it can be really annoying. My husband gets annoyed and says that I mumble, even though he admits to have hard hearing. I always get irritated with him for ignoring me but he says that he never heard me say anything to begin with. I know that most of the time I *could* speak louder but I don't. I don't know why this is though.
| SilverPikmin wrote: | | I'm sort of opposite to your problem: I have trouble understanding people. I hear them fine, but if it's sudden or unexpected, I often have to make them repeat it. I usually find myself in a conversation just guessing what the person just said; fortunately people are quite predictable. Then I'm never quite sure how to ask them to repeat... 'What?' gets to the point and I use that the most but apparently it's rude (everyone uses it though), 'Sorry' doesn't feel right to use constantly, and can be misunderstood, and 'Pardon' seems excessively polite. |
I have that problem too. Especially if someone has an accent, I can't handle accents at all. I usually just pretend to understand but that gets me into trouble too.  |
|
| Back to top |
|
zee
~~~~~~~
Joined: Jul 19, 2007
Posts: 1216
Location: in the dark
|
| Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:26 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| I was always told to speak up as a kid. Now I speak loud enough (usually), but people still don't understand me half the time. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Mapler
Snowy Owl
Joined: Oct 14, 2008
Age: 16
Posts: 173
|
| Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:28 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Strangely I don't have a problem with speaking up in presentations for school but speaking to other people I'm really really quiet.  |
|
| Back to top |
|
tweety_fan
Phoenix
Joined: Oct 03, 2007
Posts: 2356
|
| Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:43 am Post subject: Re: "I can't hear you, speak up!" |
|
|
| tarepanda wrote: | Is this just me? I talk in what I think is a normal level, if not too loud but am often asked to repeat myself or speak up. I absolutely can't stand repeating myself and most of the time I assume the person just wasn't listening to begin with and stop talking altogether. 
Argh. |
It's not just u.
happens 2 me too..
I can't help but think people are ignoring me. |
|
| Back to top |
|
bdhkhsfgk
Un-graceful Assasin
Joined: May 23, 2009
Age: 17
Posts: 1859
Location: The most beautiful country in the world
|
| Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 1:35 pm Post subject: |
|
|
It isn't necessary to diagnose one with AS.
1: A guy in my class doesn't have it but speaks low, so low that even the teachers ask him to speak up.
2: My one of my relatives almost screams everytime she talks. |
|
| Back to top |
|
oldhomehaibane
Butterfly
Joined: Aug 18, 2009
Age: 21
Posts: 14
Location: West Virginia
|
| Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:42 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Yes, I have had this problem. Back in high school, I used to practically whisper just about everything I said, except for when I was talking about one of my special interests, at which point my voice would go out of control and I was told that I yelled at people. My friends were always telling me to speak up, while when I would talk about my special interests to the teacher who was on duty at the library during lunch, I was often told to lower my voice because probably everybody in the room could hear me and it was very disruptive. I believe that I have, for the most part, gotten over this problem by now, in large part due to my friends constantly pointing it out to me. I still have trouble controlling the volume of my voice when talking about my interests, though.
_________________
"All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last."
-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time |
|
| Back to top |
|
jessmc
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Sep 14, 2009
Age: 29
Posts: 31
Location: sacramento
|
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:00 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| I think the number of times I've heard people tell me to speak up, or you're mumbling, etc. has got to be in the millions. I just can't help it. I have a very quiet voice. Usually when I am talking at a "normal" volume I feel as though I am almost yelling and it's very uncomfortable. I have improved my mumbling tremendously though and just constantly remind myself to enunciate every word. If no one had ever told me that I mumbled I would have never known. So sometimes feedback from others is extremely helpful. |
|
| Back to top |
|
matrixluver
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Oct 20, 2008
Posts: 51
|
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:01 pm Post subject: Re: "I can't hear you, speak up!" |
|
|
| tarepanda wrote: | Is this just me? I talk in what I think is a normal level, if not too loud but am often asked to repeat myself or speak up. I absolutely can't stand repeating myself and most of the time I assume the person just wasn't listening to begin with and stop talking altogether.
Argh. |
I do that constantly, my voice sounds fine to me but too low to others. I have very sensitive hearing and so most things sound to loud to me. Hence, when I think I'm speaking at a normal volume, it's really too soft. conversely, if I'm in a chaotic situation (to me, like a store or restaraunt) then i may speak too loud because to me, all the other sounds are too loud. does that make sense? |
|
| Back to top |
|
richardbenson
loves mexican food
Joined: Oct 31, 2006
Posts: 10597
Location: my apartment in sunnyside
|
| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:55 pm Post subject: |
|
|
frankly it happens to me all the time
_________________
Gem quality Fire Agate has been found only in parts of California, Arizona, and Mexico. Despite the fact that this gemstone may never become mass merchandised it has created a small yet devoted following among those who apprechiate its beauty |
|
| Back to top |
|
Aimer_FTW
Butterfly
Joined: Nov 07, 2009
Age: 17
Posts: 16
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 2:45 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Sometimes...... But most of the time no. Ussually if I'm told that I've been mumbling and not really confident in saying what I was saying or am just really tired ha ha. |
|
| Back to top |
|
omfgz
Hummingbird
Joined: Oct 31, 2009
Posts: 21
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 2:14 pm Post subject: Re: "I can't hear you, speak up!" |
|
|
| tarepanda wrote: | Is this just me? I talk in what I think is a normal level, if not too loud but am often asked to repeat myself or speak up. I absolutely can't stand repeating myself and most of the time I assume the person just wasn't listening to begin with and stop talking altogether.
Argh. |
Same here |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
