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StMartin72

People have trouble hearing me because my voice can be low-toned.  When people ask me to speak up, I tend to react defensively as if its a personal atttack.  How should I react, and how do I practice speaking up?

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    We often misunderstand requests like that as criticism and get defensive because we find it hard to work out if someone is really angry. Take a breath and apologise (we find apologising difficult but it helps to keep a dialogue moving) and raise your voice. Would anything bad happen if you did that?

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    We often misunderstand requests like that as criticism and get defensive because we find it hard to work out if someone is really angry. Take a breath and apologise (we find apologising difficult but it helps to keep a dialogue moving) and raise your voice. Would anything bad happen if you did that?

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