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   Hanneke 🐣 (h5e@tech.lgbt)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 04:58:49 JST Hanneke 🐣

   How are some people so loud while *talking*? They’re outside, I’m inside, the doors are closed yet they are louder than my tv! Don’t they get hearing problems from themselves??

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 04:58:48 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @h5e I've been accused of being loud, and I actively try to moderate it (and am grateful that practicing a femme voice is helping with that). I think part of it is just having a really strong resonance in my chest and throat and part of it is growing up in a family where every conversation was implicitly competitive and therefore being loud helped ensure you were actually heard.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 05:42:28 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @h5e There is a role in officiating roller derby called the "jam timer". Among other things, they give a verbal warning before play begins... "FIVE SECONDS!" The job is almost always given to someone with the biggest, most thundering voice possible. I'm one of two trans people in my league who've held the role; we both drop our practiced voice to thunder it out.

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     Hanneke 🐣 (h5e@tech.lgbt)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 05:42:29 JST Hanneke 🐣

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     • Kit Rhett Aultman

     @roadriverrail Where I could do with being a little louder at times 😬 sometimes when I speak up people don’t even hear me 😂