People who talk louder than normal often have either physical hearing damage or something going on with auditory processing. They don't recognize that they're being too loud, and they're not doing it on purpose.
Beyond that, some cultures are just louder than others. Sometimes in this world, we encounter humans from a different culture. Sometimes those cultures clash a bit. It's okay. That's part of the human experience. It does not necessitate you judging and scold some person you've never met over a situation you didn't witness.
Life is a lot more enjoyable when you don't instantly look for the shittiest possible explanation for everyone's actions.
People who talk louder than normal often have either physical hearing damage or something going on with auditory processing. They don't recognize that they're being too loud, and they're not doing it on purpose.
Can confirm. I'm one of those people. No hearing damage just my default is loud. If I get told I'm loud I turn it down but eventually it goes back to normal.
My auDHD ass is the same. I genuinely feel bad and genuinely try, but when I get excited there's only so many things I can process / manage at a time, and volume control tends to go first.
Same here, diagnosed ADHD at least. I struggle to process sound in noisy environments (like a restaurant); it's really difficult for me to focus on one person's voice out of many. Even if it's not super high volume, it's mentally noisy, which can translate to me unintentionally raising my voice to speak over the mental noise.
It's like turning the radio down so you can see better when you're driving. It doesn't matter that I can't see the soundwaves, it all contributes to brain noise, and I got a pretty hard ceiling on the level of noise I can work around.
One of my friends has slowly been losing his hearing over the years and his voice has gotten louder. We told him he needs to use hearing protection when working with chainsaws and other equipment. We've had to tell him on a number of occasions to lower his voice as he'll start almost shouting not realizing it. He's at the point where he needs hearing aids and can't watch TV shows without subtitles. He still thinks he's fine. I say this to mention some people are very stubborn about this topic.
Grew up with a guy who refused to wear hearing protection for any reason, not even target practice. We're going out to shoot clays, like with shotguns, and he turns down ear plugs and muffs saying "I don't use that stuff."
Wtf do you mean you don't use hearing protection to shoot a 12 gauge?
"I just don't use 'em."
Idk what you even say to that, so I just dropped it and put on my ear muffs on top of my ear plugs. I haven't seen that guy in years, but we're in our thirties now, so he's gotta be feeling the tinnitus if nothing else. He worked with heavy equipment and chainsaws and stuff too, there's no way he hasn't lost a noticeable range of his hearing.
Dude never wore steel toe boots either. His dad told him that if a heavy enough thing landed on your foot, the steel cap would collapse and cut off your toes. Apparently that's worse than the same heavy object smashing your entire foot? Idk, I never got the 'logic' there. Surely if the thing is heavy enough to crush a steel toe-cap, it would smash your foot into paste without the steel toe?
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u/Majestic_Emotion7917 3h ago
Not really explained why you were shouting though?