Discussion Does anyone else here have a speech impediment?

[BornToFail]

Here is my voice, no one understands me so I have great difficulty ordering food and many other necessary tasks I should be doing as an adult man,

 

[Someone123]

Actually I understood this very well, it was clear to me. Of course speech therapy may help some, but I expect that you have already had this, though each therapists is different and can offer different insights. Some words were more clear than others, many of the words were perfectly clear. I think with the right help this will not hold you back much in life.

 

[Lupgevif]

I also did understand most of the words, though I am not a native speaker and have trouble understanding speech in English in the first place. Therapy might indeed help.

 

[fettuccinenoodle]

I understand you well. I have a slight lisp when i get hungry/tired. Ive found some speech exercises on youtube that I use on my way to work to warm my speech up and it helps me annunciate better.

I also tend to blur all my words together when I get excited about a topic and i really have to slow down and think about how i speak

 

[𖣴 nadia 𖣴]

I thought you sounded pretty clear, some words did blur into others but maybe speaking a bit slower over the phone might help with that.

 

[Un-]

I don't think I do. But my accent is very abnormal, and people struggle to understand me. Add in the inability to hold a conversation, and.. Yeah. It's not good.

 

[niiina]

I also understood you well and I'm not a native speaker. I have a light speech impediment too and even tho it's light some people need me to repeat stuff in order to understand

 

[Kattt]

I don't but my brother grew up with a horrendous stutter. He had heart surgery at about 6 for which he had to be awake. We think this is what instigated it.
Unfortunately, I wasn't the nicest child. I tormented him, smashed his head open with a brick (you can still see the lump), ridiculed him in front of his friends and drove away any girlfriends he might have had.
He had therapy for the stutter and apparently, it's far better, except when I am present. Then it returns full force.
Interestingly ~Scroobius Pip has a terrible stutter, but not when he performs (video here) . scroobius pip

 

[Someone123]

I don't but my brother grew up with a horrendous stutter. He had heart surgery at about 6 for which he had to be awake. We think this is what instigated it.
Unfortunately, I wasn't the nicest child. I tormented him, smashed his head open with a brick (you can still see the lump), ridiculed him in front of his friends and drove away any girlfriends he might have had.
He had therapy for the stutter and apparently, it's far better, except when I am present. Then it returns full force.
Interestingly ~Scroobius Pip has a terrible stutter, but not when he performs (video here) . scroobius pip

Considering how badly you treated him I would think as an adult it would be worthwhile to apologize for this frequently and do anything you can to help him- if you would do this his stutter around you might lessen in time.

 

[Kattt]

He has NPD and there isn't enough space to list the horrible things he's done to his family. That doesn't justify how I behaved back then, but the fact is that we have no contact at all now.
He accused his wife of cheating and threw her out, where ( we later discovered), she had just had a complete breakdown. He had 2 sons, in their late teens. He kicked them out, with nothing and had his new GF's children sleeping in their bed that same night.
I was looking after my parents house and pets while they were on holiday as he doesn't do a thing for them. At the same time I had to take over full care of my grandmother who was dying. Somewhat overwhelmed, at the same time, he and his new GF called me accusing me of all kinds of stuff and told my grandmother all kinds of lies about me.
Then he came to the hospital where she was dying and my mum and I were sitting by her bed. He started yelling at us across her body, about how we aren't allowed to talk to his sons (They are adults btw). That was as much as I could take.
Of course I know it was wrong to treat him like that. I am aware I was not the nicest person and I am still there for him, when he is able to talk to me without trying to drag me into his drama.

 

[pickajack]

Op, like the other posters said, although some parts were clearer than others, I understood every word you said. I also think you sound really nice, like someone I would trust and want to talk to.

 

[Sad_Sack]

From that sound clip I have to say your speech is most likely not as bad as you think. I hope it is not your speech impediment that is making you feel low enough to be here. Please don't feel bad about yourself.

 

[Ineedtodie]

I know the feeling. Same difficulties. I have rhotacism. Can't pronounce the R sound. It added more to my social anxiety.

 

[Regret]

There is that documentary on Netflix that talks about how this guy got rid of his speech impediment through mushrooms. I also know someone personally who thinks mushrooms helped them with their speech impediment as well…

I just googled it and pasted it here.

"Issues around communication and social interaction have deep personal resonance for Stamets. Though he is an eloquent adult, he had a terrible stutter as a child, which ostracized him from his peers. The problem persisted despite years of speech therapy. It was an experience with fungi that unlocked his ability to speak.

Coming of age in a small, conservative Ohio town during the heady early 1970s, Stamets says it was his older brother John who kindled his interest in mushrooms, particularly the psychotropic varieties described by R. Gordon Wasson in his seminal 1957 LIFE magazine article, "Seeking the Magic Mushroom."

Wasson introduced post-war US pop culture to Psilocybe mexicana and the indigenous healing rituals surrounding it.


Inspired by his brother, the younger Stamets soon discovered researchers like Charles T. Tart and Andrew Weil. Their descriptions of the states induced by ingesting psilocybin opened a window to a rippling colorful landscape that Stamets was eager to explore.

He acquired a bag of Psilocybin mushrooms and, knowing nothing about dosing, naively ate them all. He soon found himself literally up a tree, in the middle of a rainstorm, hallucinating wildly. Overwhelmed by fear, he suddenly became very clear, remembered his speech problem, and began repeating the phrase "Stop stuttering now!" over and over in his mind.

The next morning, he was able to speak normally. Stamets credits the mushrooms with freeing him from social isolation.

Science & Psychedelics

Fantastic Fungi explores the re-emergence of serious research on the therapeutic use of Psilocybin"

I don't know what this person speech impediment was like before mushrooms. I don't know if it would work? I'm just passing on another persons experience/story.

I was able to understand you in your recording.

 

[jackie_boy1337]

I think you have a lovely speaking voice and don't have anything to be ashamed about. Genuinely.

 

[Nagito]

I understood you perfectly. I work in an industry where I speak to people with many different accents with varying degrees of English every day and your speech was much easier to understand than others to me. You have a very nice speaking voice as well, I hope others can appreciate it and that you can as well

 

[LaVieEnRose]

I have a lisp that I have never bothered to correct.

 

[DonTellMeToStayAlive]

Here is my voice, no one understands me so I have great difficulty ordering food and many other necessary tasks I should be doing as an adult man,

I feel you. I too have similar speech-type issues (inthat others sometimes have a hard time understanding me) and I cannot pronounce certain combinations of sounds (like the hard R sound, the r and l sounds together, certain other stuff)
its hard.

 

[Givenuponlife]

Here is my voice, no one understands me so I have great difficulty ordering food and many other necessary tasks I should be doing as an adult man,

I understood you perfectly well :)
I could understand it being hard for the situations you've described though. While not an impediment per se, I can be rather slow regarding processing things and collecting my thoughts into a coherent phrasing (thanks ADHD and probable clinical depression) over the phone or in real life.

 

[BornToFail]

I don't but my brother grew up with a horrendous stutter. He had heart surgery at about 6 for which he had to be awake. We think this is what instigated it.
Unfortunately, I wasn't the nicest child. I tormented him, smashed his head open with a brick (you can still see the lump), ridiculed him in front of his friends and drove away any girlfriends he might have had.
He had therapy for the stutter and apparently, it's far better, except when I am present. Then it returns full force.
Interestingly ~Scroobius Pip has a terrible stutter, but not when he performs (video here) . scroobius pip

Late, but what the hell? I hope this is a troll.

 

[Grey-zoner]

There is that documentary on Netflix that talks about how this guy got rid of his speech impediment through mushrooms. I also know someone personally who thinks mushrooms helped them with their speech impediment as well…

I just googled it and pasted it here.

"Issues around communication and social interaction have deep personal resonance for Stamets. Though he is an eloquent adult, he had a terrible stutter as a child, which ostracized him from his peers. The problem persisted despite years of speech therapy. It was an experience with fungi that unlocked his ability to speak.

Coming of age in a small, conservative Ohio town during the heady early 1970s, Stamets says it was his older brother John who kindled his interest in mushrooms, particularly the psychotropic varieties described by R. Gordon Wasson in his seminal 1957 LIFE magazine article, "Seeking the Magic Mushroom."

Wasson introduced post-war US pop culture to Psilocybe mexicana and the indigenous healing rituals surrounding it.


Inspired by his brother, the younger Stamets soon discovered researchers like Charles T. Tart and Andrew Weil. Their descriptions of the states induced by ingesting psilocybin opened a window to a rippling colorful landscape that Stamets was eager to explore.

He acquired a bag of Psilocybin mushrooms and, knowing nothing about dosing, naively ate them all. He soon found himself literally up a tree, in the middle of a rainstorm, hallucinating wildly. Overwhelmed by fear, he suddenly became very clear, remembered his speech problem, and began repeating the phrase "Stop stuttering now!" over and over in his mind.

The next morning, he was able to speak normally. Stamets credits the mushrooms with freeing him from social isolation.

Science & Psychedelics

Fantastic Fungi explores the re-emergence of serious research on the therapeutic use of Psilocybin"

I don't know what this person speech impediment was like before mushrooms. I don't know if it would work? I'm just passing on another persons experience/story.

I was able to understand you in your recording.

My mild to moderate speech impediment is primarily anxiety-related, so anything that addresses that helps to reduce it. Maybe OP could benefit also. The dosage would have to be fairly high tho, for psilocybin.
There's also alcohol of course, and other drugs. Meditation perhaps. I don't know, even Xanax. It's definitely possible to improve one's speech; I haven't been stuttering that often recently, and when I do I can be more open and acknowledge it, which helps take away some of the anxiety. It's the stress around it that can make it worse, in my experience at least.

 

[NaturalBornNEET]

I have a stutter, it's been the biggest detriment to my confidence out of all my defects and the one I've been bullied the most over, from mocking to having a whole classroom erupt in laughter at me

it's one of the few disabilities that aren't taken seriously by people