hello i am a 16 year old(male) who still has a very high pitched voice, i have all the hair in the right places i have done experiments by cutting lots of pubic and under arm hair off and it grows back in about a week. My voice has yet to crack naturally ever yet i can make it crack. When ever i am on the phone people confuse me for a girl which i know at my age is bad. Also my arm hair is blonde still and my legs dont grow much hair at all. Any advice to fix this issue before its too late? I dont wish to sound like this for the rest of my life.
Hey, No Worries!
Try and eat healthily drink water and get your excersize and it will have your body on the right track, Living a healthy lifestyle can fix many problems!
People will go through puberty at different rates, and not everything happens all at once. I was on the other end of the spectrum and it was just as embarrassing. I was in 4th grade when I went through a huge growth spurt and in 5th when I started getting really bad acne and a voice change. It happens on its own time, nothing you can do to change it.
If you can make your voice crack, then it sounds like your voice has changed and you're simply not accustomed to using the newer tone. Embarrassment is a big factor and can make guys, in rare cases, keep using their higher boys voice. It is a medical phenomenon called Puberphonia and can cause big problems after adolescence if left untreated (you'll have no luck attracting a partner and employers will never give you a job when you sound like you're nervous, tense and lack confidence). If you're aged 16, I'd leave it another 12 months and see how the situation goes. As others have noted, it may be a case of puberty delaying your voice change (although I suspect not since you've said your voice has changed and can crack).
A year from now, if there is no change, don't put it off any longer and keep hoping for the best. Get yourself to a doctor and describe your worries about your voice and make sure to tell him you feel the problem is Puberphonia (it's surprising how many doctors are unaware of it or have never seen a case of it). If they have experience with it, they may work with your themselves. Otherwise, they may refer you to a voice or speech pathologist at a nearby hospital and they can give you some vocal exercises to help you grow used to your newer adult voice.
There's a video on YouTube called "Welcome To Manhood" and it features a teenage boy in the studio audience of The Rosie O'Donnell show in America. The poor boy is a textbook case of Puberphonia and it was a big joke to everyone. Until I turned 30, I used to sound like him myself.