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The first time I heard my voice recorded on tape...I swore that couldn't really be what I sounded like to others.

But yes, it was.
A few years later in a drama class, the teacher ruthlessly critiqued our speaking voices. Mine was a garbled mess of swallowed vowels & mostly incoherent.

I hid for another ten years before doing something about it.
To this day I have to consciously make the effort to sit up straight & speak from the diaphragm.

Let's tell our stories about hearing ourselves.