hello, all my life i have had a speach impediment and i did go to some years of speach therapy but i wanted to get out of that cause i felt it was a waste of my time. I am in highschool now still with a speach impediment but i have never told anyone that the reason i havent gotten rid of this impediment is cause i dont hear the same thing other people hear when i speak. when i speak my voice sounds perfect to me but to other people i guess it sounds weird...is this a disorder, and what can i do to handle this? please help

timber? When I hear my voice on tape or over a microphone, it also doesn't sound ANYTHING like it does to me.

If people can understand what you're saying when you speak, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Just be yourself.

^ but yeah, thats the problem, a lot of the time people can't understand what i am saying.

is this a disorder and if so is there a name to this disorder?

I know exactly what you mean. I am partially deaf with a few other conditions that have rendered what I hear my voice to be to be nothing like what other's hear. When I wear the Infernal Instruments of Torture (hearing aides) I pick up my voice and it does sound different from when I do not wear them, which is now almost all the time.

All people do not hear their own voice like everyone else. However nearly all people can hear if they are speaking correctly or not, or loudly enough or softly enough. If you are misprounouncing words or similar and they sound right to you in your head/ears yet do not sound right to others this can be due to something along the lines of hearing loss, tone deafness even certain sinus conditions can lead to you not hearing yourself right. When it comes to your own voice you are hearing it with more than just your ears. The vibrations of sound are also "felt" through the sinus cavities - this is why deaf people who do speak or have learned how to speak do so with that deep nasal tone - this is how they "hear" their own voice.

I would strongly urge you to have your hearing and sinuses checked.

It's perfectly normal to hear your own voice as different when being played back to you. Remember, your voice box is only a few inches from your inner ear, the speaker may be a few feet. Plus, the vibrations that travel up from your throat vibrate at different wavelengths than if they were from a speaker. When we speak, we hear through our ears and neck, when we listen we hear through our ears and skull.