Vocal volume

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I can have trouble using the correct volume when talking to people. Either too quiet or way to loud.

Does anyone else experience this?

I've always been told that I am way too loud.

I speak too loud and too fast.

Yes, now. When I was a child and young adult I was actually too quiet, afraid to speak up, several years with selective mutism, and when I did speak I could barely make myself audible. Then in my late twenties I actively tried to consciously and deliberately get out of that, and I overcompensated. Now, although I will never be a mouse again, I find I have poor volume awareness.

I have a loud voice and I have a very hard time turning the volume down. I'm still managing to make the customers at the bank happy and that's all that matters.

I've been told I'm loud but to me it's normal volume. I've also been told I sound like I have a speech impediment, which I guess I do, since my pathologist has coded me as being dyspraxic/apraxic, but I never realized that it was that bad.

My Mum says I talk a bit loud, I don't even notice when I do.

I am only somewhat verbal and the words I can say almost always come out slurred, disjointed and not very audible. My non-language (intonations that are not words) are usually loud.

My speech issues mean I physically cannot speak loudly. Which drives me crazy because in all this normative crap people persist in, they assume "soft spoken" means timid, shy, weak, uncertain, no self confidence, etc. Which it isn't. It's a speech disorder, people.
I'm working on it. I'm all for surgical intervention.

Yep, I suck at gauging how loud I should talk and I talk too loud or too quiet quite often as my mom regularly points out.

Thank you for replying everyone.

I speak very quietly at work, to the point that it is often commented on that people can't hear me. I speak a bit louder at home where I am more comfortable but still not usual volume.

Sometimes my own voice is too loud for me. Just don't like it.