‘Your voice is like a girl’: Harvard graduate reveals how teacher helped him overcome years of bullying
A Harvard graduate has opened up about years of being bullied over his voice and how one teacher helped him reclaim something he had once felt ashamed of. The post was shared Deepak Ramola, a writer and educator, on Instagram. In the caption, he reflected on how far he has come in accepting himself and thanked the people who helped him along the way.Harvard graduate shares powerful response to voice troll. (Instagram/@deepakramola)‘You have to own your voice’In the video, Ramola recalled how people had mocked his voice throughout his school years, saying it sounded like a child or a girl and was not deep enough.“All my life, I have been bullied for my voice. It sounds like a kid. It sounds like a girl. It’s not baritone enough,” he said.He explained that a recent comment brought back memories of being mocked and belittled at school. However, he said one conversation with his English teacher in Class 11 changed the way he viewed his voice.Ramola recalled how his teacher, Pragati Kapoor, found him crying and asked him a simple question: “Do you like your voice?”(Also Read:
