Have you watched "Do I Sound Gay?" David Thorpe did a fantastic job dissecting when he started to sound gay, and how it bothered him to sound gay, and steps he took to sound less so. I won't tell you how it ends, this documentary is well worth watching, and offers many moments of clarity, at least for me.
Towards the end, I had an Ah-Ha! moment.
Never, as long as I've been self aware have I liked the way I sound. To me, my voice is to high, and in my opinion sound like Minnie Mouse.
The last several months I've been asking people if my voice is extremely high, and if they think I sound like Minnie, and they always tell me, "no".
So, either everyone is lying to me, or I have no idea what I actually sound like to others. And I refuse to believe that my friends would lie to my face, so the onus was on me to sort this out. Which is why I watched "Do I Sound Gay?"
And then BOOM! out of the ether came the answer, one so obvious that it appalls me that it took me so long to winkle out.
I'm male, and males are supposed to have deeper voices than women. Thats why my voice has always bothered me, I sound like a woman.
Yeah, see? Could I be any more dense? Sigh.....
I know the feeling. I sound male, but if I raise my voice just a little I could sound like one of those ladies that does the voices for commercials. Like the Chase one, for example.
ReplyDeleteI've not seen the documentary but i want to. Spouse heard about it on NPR.
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Additionally, your voice sounds different when you hear it (based on how sound resonates in your skull as it travels through your ears) compared to when someone else hears it. I've never liked hearing my own voice back. Most people don't, I think.
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