I'm sorry to start another thread but DBT leader hit me with something I do that I'm not quite aware of, and it's kind of interesting to me. She said I talk very fast and then the volume goes down so she can hardly hear me. The co-leader says what I say "under my breath" is worthwhile and she wants to hear it, but can't always. So I talk too fast when I get excited, but I talk softer and softer.

Wow! My friend has told me I talk kind of fast when I'm excited, but not that I then talk softly. My T mentioned it once recently because she said she has trouble understanding me when I talk so fast.

Like the interrupting, I don't know that I do it! I also don't know that I talk softer at the same time.

I think it's because I don't feel like what I say is important so I speak softly so maybe they won't hear me. But they said it IS important. That almost made me cry too! I'm not sure why I talk fast. Maybe, like the interrupting, I want to get it all in before someone stops me.

Perhaps that's why I write/ post so much here. No one can stop me from writing as much as I want. It isn't fast and it isn't soft.

Does anyone else talk fast and/or softly?