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FYI: I ****LOATHE**** the telephone. So I procrastinate heavily on any and all calls I have to make. ::hugs fandom people:: sorry about that.

Part of it is that I think I have horrible phone voice, another is that I think I have a horrible voice, in general, and the sheer physical fact of a phone makes me all the more aware that I am *speaking*. Part of how I got over my fear of communicating badly is to be totally oblivious to the fact that I am possibly making a fool of myself; and thus part of what I'm making myself oblivious to is the fact that my voice is making sounds.

Dunno if I'm the only one like this.

Thoughts?

Comments

[kittytan.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's mostly the holes in your head. ...er. The sinus cavities, the mouth and the throat, that is. Your voice resonates in these hollows and reach you through the bones of your head vibrating as well as through the air. And since bone has higher density than air, the sound waves become distorted, and that leads to your voice sounding different to you than it does to everyone else.

As for the phone phobia, I have it too, and I like my voice. I mean, I'm a vocalist. It's the invisible time limit that gets me. You have to get what you want said said and as quickly as possible, and that just... flusters me, because I need to think things through before I say them, and that doesn't work on the phone. I find that writing everything I need to say down and thinking about what the person on the other end might be likely to say and how to respond to that helps, but if they deviate from my written little script, I'm still likely to panic. >.