Hi Jenny
Thanks for the info. I am now at month 3 and should definitely do more exercises to increase my upper range a bit. If it really goes up by 2 more tones until the month 6 or 9, I woul dbe able to sing a high C which would be crazy. I doubt it though, but thats ok.
That range really is only used when laughing or screaming or giggling, as you said. Maybe I could try to sing in those ranges ...
Quote from: Jennygirl on May 21, 2015, 07:24:42 PM
Now, I do not focus on my voice at all. To me it just is what it is: my voice. I used to worry about if I was passing every time I used it, which was indeed crucial because I focused on learning new ways of speaking and adapted my brain in a lot of ways. I think I was also subconsciously working out the upper range more than the lower during that time.
during which time was that? I feel like I am concentrating a lot on my voice now, at 3 month post op, I still seem to be nervous about it, sometimes I drop very deep or hit bad resonances - so I do a lot of voice work for myself , I guess. I hope this will be over in any reasonale timeframe... sigh - after all the point of the VFS was to get rid of that self-controlling of the voice.
QuoteMy comfortable speaking pitch is lower than that of my 2 and 7 month videos, probably by at least 10-20hz if not more in certain scenarios- such as when I am talking to a person that knows me well.
Oh - I hope the reverse will happen to me since my pitch really is not yet where I was hoping it to be and where Dr Kim said it will be. Its about 2 full tones higher than my pre op voice - if it drops by 20 Hz it will be almost the same again
- but he said it should increase between month 2 and 4 which is about now... Definitely my voice is lower among friends, too. Also its lower in german compared to english.
Did you in the long run have the 75Hz increase in the average speaking voice that Dr Kim usually describes to be possible?
QuoteEverything feels natural, and I am able to pass like no tomorrow on the phone, in the drive-through, or loudly. After almost two years of being properly gendered, you kind of forget that it's even possible to be misgendered due to voice.
Awesome!
QuoteAs with most other transition-related things, I think a lot is to do with building confidence interacting with people in your preferred gender presentation. I know it didn't happen as a result of the surgery alone, a lot of it was also me working hard to retrain. But it did seem to come rather naturally. At no point was I ever overly discouraged, and I think that had a lot to do with it as well.
Hmm , yes you are right. I feel encouraged now, knowing I cannot go into certain voice areas that were possible before and that calms me down a lot. But sometimes I do feel a bit frustrated when I wake up and have the impression that my voice is very low and checking on my phone it will also say it is at a D or E - which is far from the G or A that I was kind of aiming for. Once I was even down to an A - shudder. Usually doing the exercises helps at these moments though. Also at the low notes like C, A or D in the lower speaking range, my voice breaks a bit apart as well.
Its kind of funny, I sometimes feel like I am in a reversed voice break as it was in puberty. I usually use a higher pitch and good resonance, but at times it can break into that bad resonance and lower pitch. It was like that when I was 14 or so, I guess - but after that it got stuck more and more in the lower part, whil enow it is the reverse and I am sticking to the higher part more and more.
