I’m Leemus. Here’s where I’m coming from.
I’m a New Zealander with lived experience of puberphonia. The personal material here comes from my 2024 voice diary and memoir draft. I’m not presenting myself as a clinician. The clinical pages are sourced and clearly marked clinical review pending.
I want this to be useful both to someone looking for a name for their voice problem and to someone who has found a lower voice but is frightened to use it. My experience helps me describe the second question. It doesn’t qualify me to diagnose the first.
Evidence is labelled
Clinical guidance, individual research, first-person reporting and uncertainty use different labels.
Sources stay visible
Health claims link to primary studies or recognised professional and government bodies wherever possible.
Limits travel with findings
Sample size, study design and relevance appear beside the headline result.
Experience stays singular
My diary and memoir describe what happened to me. They are not a timetable or treatment plan for somebody else.
No diagnosis by resemblance
Audio, checklists and stories can orient a reader; they cannot examine a larynx or diagnose a condition.
Corrections are explicit
Material factual changes will be dated and explained. Unsupported claims are removed, not quietly polished.
Editorial hierarchy
Professional guidance, primary research and medical safeguards.
Dated diary excerpts and memoir scenes, attributable to one person.
Plausible explanations, open questions or claims the current evidence cannot settle.
A note about the artwork
The introduction portrait is an AI-edited photo composite made from a still in my 2024 Day 1 video and an illustrated landscape. The edit also changes some photographic detail; it is not an untouched cutout or a current photograph. The car and motocross scenes are AI illustrations using my likeness from that recording, not photographs of those exact events. Other people and the dog are illustrative, not portraits of my clinicians or my pet.
Corrections, in the open.
9 September 2026: Removed the claim that the comparison recordings were made 38 seconds apart. The source provides upload times, not verified recording times. Diary summaries are now explicitly labelled as paraphrases.
If you spot a problem, keep the page link, the wording in question and any supporting source. A public corrections contact has not been added yet. Nothing on this site has been signed off by a clinical reviewer.