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Does Anybody hate the sound of their own voice being played back to them?

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This follows on from the thread about looking in your own eyes or those of others.....and that thread also strayed into talk of photos of yourself too.

Personally, I absolutely hate to hear a playback of myself talking.  I sound like a man with a "punchable face" if you know what I mean.

It doesn't ever sound like me.....more like the ass-hat version of me (ie pointless and ridiculous and has no use or purpose.)

I wonder if this is plain old-fashioned self-loathing or whether there is something deeper going on.

I have a recording of myself aged 8 years old......and I sound MUCH nicer then !

Does anyone have firm thoughts on this subject?

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  • Yes, I hate the sound of my voice too. As others have said, if I'm unfortunately enough to hear a recording of myself my reaction is a strong sense of shame or as it was put, self loathing that i sound so bad. I've had this from a young age. I can remember countless times it has plagued me. This can be a big problem, I've recently been part of a zoom social meetup, but haven't managed to talk because of how I feel about my voice, trouble is I feel I'm not connecting how I could because of this. Would love to overcome this issue. I even had a session with a voice coach when I was younger, she said I had a lovely timbre to my voice, where as I think it just sounds nasel and flat. 

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  • Yes, I hate the sound of my voice too. As others have said, if I'm unfortunately enough to hear a recording of myself my reaction is a strong sense of shame or as it was put, self loathing that i sound so bad. I've had this from a young age. I can remember countless times it has plagued me. This can be a big problem, I've recently been part of a zoom social meetup, but haven't managed to talk because of how I feel about my voice, trouble is I feel I'm not connecting how I could because of this. Would love to overcome this issue. I even had a session with a voice coach when I was younger, she said I had a lovely timbre to my voice, where as I think it just sounds nasel and flat. 

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