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laurax
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Joined: 12 Jun 2006
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Sat Jun 24, 2006 5:09 pm
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that's what I'm talking about. what incentive then do you have for practicing? why would you ever want to remember then to say things more like everyone else? If your conscious mind doesn't care. and actually, if it has a grudge against everyone else's ears. why should the subconscious, the one in control of the breathing, mouth, tongue, even the words you pick and their translations, why should it take the time to remember anything extra?
i guess youre right, and i do really know that thats the case, but i guess i was kinda stressing because im starting collage in september, with tons and tons ofpeople i dont know, and yeah...for all i know, it might go away. or maybe noone will notice it, or if they do, theyll forget it once theyve got to know me. i mean its only been ONE person who actually made fun of me to be spiteful. the others just tease me evey now and again...so i guess youre right, and i just needed to hear someone else say it. thanks ^^ |
MyThoughtsAreChoking
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Joined: 28 Aug 2006
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Location: Minnesota
Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:47 pm
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Hey!!
I'm donna marie....
I've have a lips for years...I'm 16 right now....and I'm just starting to try and get help with it. Thou my 5th grade teacher noticed it and noted it to my parents but not me. I had to find out that she noticed it by my dad int eh car after a conference. i started bawling.So a few days later I was asked to read a bunch of vocab for the stupid speech lady.
She told me how to practice to fix it but I never really udnerstood it. It was fusrating. She didn't explain it in a way I knew how too. I never went back to speech and never followed up on it.
I entered 7th grade and was totured by one kid. Who I didn't even know and never spoke to in my life. i didn't even knew he exsicted lol. He moved away and the teasign went away. I've gotten a few rude comments from stupid people...and yeah it upsets me btu I don't care.
Until one day alst year in science class. a kid was like "you know you sound like Sind the Sloth" from ice age...." OUCH!!!! I started yelling at him from across the room. My teacher (who rocks) fired abck at the kid. It made me feel so good but I cried right int he middle of class...so embarssing....I hated it.
my friends say they've noticed but then they said it "its what makes you...you" and I'm like **** that!! others are like...I never even noticed until someone says something andb they listen for it. Or they completelying forget about it.
I'm working hard now for a change....seeing as I'm heading in the direction of a music career where I'm singing and speaking in public all teh time and its scarey to be judged by my music itsself but then I'm speaking is even worse...cuase I'm confident in my music not my speech. and I want it so bad...so yeah
I know how you feel and you just have to work for it!!! |
761349
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Joined: 08 Sep 2006
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Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:09 am
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I also have a lisp and am very embarrased of it. I get made fun of, friends make fun of me (can i really consider them friends) and also strangers ive never spoken too before. My best friends say they dont really notice it, but i know i have one because everyone else says i do. Is there anything i can do to fix it? I dont have a very long tongue, i cant touch my nose. Whats wrong? Where should the tongue be hitting when pronouncing the 's'? |
xxmexams08
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Joined: 21 Nov 2006
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Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:33 pm
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i have a lisp too. im in the 7th grade and it is the hardest thing ever.
im pretty outgoing, lots of friends, hang out with the "it" crowd, and some would say im popular.
i cant read out loud in class anymore because i fear people are listening to my lisp.
when i talk i always think of ways to not use "s" or "this"
alot of people say i dont have one, but i always get made fun of.
i sit in my room at night and record my self talking and then i re-play it to see what words have a lisp so i can take them out of my vocabulary.
i wish i didnt have a lisp.
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niqua12345
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Joined: 05 Apr 2007
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Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:32 pm
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i am 15 and i have a lisp and gap ppl constantly tease me and it hurts alot and my mom dosent understand and wont help me and its making so depressed i spend so much of my life crying i almost failed because i missed so many days of school so i could stay home from the teasing and harassing..what should i do please somebody help me i cant take this pain any longer  |
hannahmstubbs
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Joined: 31 May 2007
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Thu May 31, 2007 10:54 pm
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hi, i'm 14 and i have a lisp aswel...i really hate it and i can't talk to anyone about it. some people say that they can't even notice it but i know i have one. the strange thing is, that i can seem to pronounce words that start with 'th' like the and this, but i can't pronounce stuff like 'clothes' ot 'months' - anyhting with 's' and 'th'... it makes me really self conscious and depressed.. i don't know what to do, and i really don't want to see a therapist.. (my mum woudn't pay that much cause she says i care too much and that i am vain) the onl;y 'speech' workshop i can access is at our school 'speech and drama club'. i don't want to go to this as all the people from my school will maake fun of me.. sometinmes i really want to say something but don't cus i am afraid.. what can i do??? does anyoone know how to cure it?/ please reply. xxx |
hannahmstubbs
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Joined: 31 May 2007
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Thu May 31, 2007 10:54 pm
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hi, i'm 14 and i have a lisp aswel...i really hate it and i can't talk to anyone about it. some people say that they can't even notice it but i know i have one. the strange thing is, that i can seem to pronounce words that start with 'th' like the and this, but i can't pronounce stuff like 'clothes' ot 'months' - anyhting with 's' and 'th'... it makes me really self conscious and depressed.. i don't know what to do, and i really don't want to see a therapist.. (my mum woudn't pay that much cause she says i care too much and that i am vain) the onl;y 'speech' workshop i can access is at our school 'speech and drama club'. i don't want to go to this as all the people from my school will maake fun of me.. sometinmes i really want to say something but don't cus i am afraid.. what can i do??? does anyoone know how to cure it?/ please reply. xxx |
bullrider
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Joined: 03 Aug 2006
Posts: 31
Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:16 am
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Have any of you tried this book?
Change you voice change your life - Dr. Morton Cooper
Search for it on amazon
I'm sure there will be other books that pop up. Now I don't know which book is best for helping someone with their lisp but I'm positive there should be one out there that helps.
Let me know how you guys do! |
Pookie
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Joined: 14 Jul 2005
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Location: UK
Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:08 pm
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Hi chaps (and chapesses),
I am nearly 43 years old, and I have had a lisp all of my life - I cannot properly pronounce the 'ch' or 'je' sound, they come out as a 'ksh'.
I had some speach therapy when I was very young, which I believe improved matters somewhat, and would recommend investigating this for you all.
I too was shy when I was young, at least partly as a result of this.
However, I have become ever more confident throughout my adult life, and consider myself sucessful in my chosen career. I absolutely love public spreaking, and positively seek out opportunities to do this.
My lisp has very much diminished over time, such that I and others rarely notice it. I regard this as a product of my confidence, rather than any physical change.
Communication is about 75% body language, about 20% the method of speaking (tone, inflection and rythm), and only about 5% the content of what is said. In reality, a lisp will have only a very minor and very short-lived effect upon the method of speaking element. Someone who is interested in what you are saying will very quickly, subconciously compensate for your lisp in their listening, and it will in no way diminish their understanding of what you say. The key, I would suggest, is to have something to say, and say it with passion.
You may want to remember this famous retort, from one of England's greatest lispers:
quote:
Lady Astor: Mr. Churchill, you're drunk!
Winston Churchill: Yesh, and you, Madam, are ugly. But tomorrow, I shall be shober.
It is a little known fact, that in later life Winston Churchill's dentures were especially made in order to preserve his hallmark lisp.
http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/exhibitions/churchill/history.html/view?searchterm=lisp
Here is a quick suggestion for dealing with someone who pokes fun at your lisp:
Point at them and laugh out loud, say "You are very funny. Now tell me a funny joke." (Then hold their gaze, and silently watch them squirm).
I hope that you find some comfort in the ramblings of an old man.
Best Wishes,
John (pronounced Kshohn by me (thanks mum  )) |
Amyxx
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Joined: 01 Sep 2007
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Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:12 am
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Im 15 and I never knew I had a lisp until around a year ago, when I heard a recording of myself. I now remember people name calling in primary school but I didn't know how I was even talking.
Now I avoid using the letter S even when speaking to family and friends, I really enjoy talking and singing but I'm too self concious to do much of either now. Its getting me down and I cry a lot latley over it.
I don't really want to go to Speech classes. I'd rather use home methods.
When I say think, it sounds like "fink" and my S sounds like a "th" or you can't hear it at all. How can I resolve this, I'd be so much more confident If I didn't have a lisp. Whats the "proper" tongue position to say a letter S?
Thanks. |
jpuk
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Joined: 05 Sep 2007
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:41 pm
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this is a problem thats been buggin me for a while now.i cant distinguish whether or not i have a lisp.i can rememba going to some speech classes when i was very young with my mother but nothing too serious.
i say my "s" with my tongue at the top of my mouth, and i cannot hear whether i have actually got a lisp or not because im so used to hearing the sound of my own voice!
but in my job i have to serve quite a few people, and if i say an "s" word they look up sometimes, so im just wondering whether it is that bad.
Ive never really been bullied by it, just a few people saying words with a lisp, nothing big.but then again i don't know if ive grown out of it.
i would aski someone if ive got one, but really don't want to. iv tried recording myself but i still can't distinguish if i actually have 1 or not.its so confusing! |
kiissykiiss
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Joined: 07 Sep 2007
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Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:32 pm
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Okay, so I'm 16 years old && a sophmore in highschool..Well it started in like 7th grade when I was in gym..My gym instrutor asked me if i had a retainer in my mouth..&& i didn't..so it was kind of odd but i brushed it off. Nothing really happened soon after that..But again in 8th grade, I noticed people asking a lot like "what did you just say?" like they couldn't understand me correctly. That, again, was pretty odd..Like when i repeated myself on words like "get" they thought i was saying "gig"..Well then i transferred schools and my freshman year was like horrible. So many people would just say something about me having a lisp. I can't hear it myself, i feel like i'm talking normally, but other people see it.
My family && even my closest friends that i've known for a while say that i don't. But lately i've gotten ridiculed for it..Like comments like "oh you talk funny" "were you born with a slurr?" and even comments pronounced to come out like lisp speech. It's horrible. I hate it and sometimes i get so upset, i don't ever say anything about it to people, like it doesn't bother me, but i'll go home and fall apart over it.
It's sad, because I can't notice it myself, in my daily speech..but when i make videos or record myself talking..I hear little slips in my speech that have never been there before. It makes public speaking so hard. && i don't like to talk when i first meet people because i'm afraid they'll judge me over that, than who i really am. I need help to correct this. Please give me suggestions!
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toomuchtoask
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Joined: 04 Dec 2007
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Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:55 pm
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i noticed that i have a lisp when i was 15 i think
i don't think i had one before that..i don't know
i find it difficult to say without putting my tongue out and sometimes it comes out okay and sometimes i get the sssfff sound
please help me..
i'm almost 18 and i fear public speaking because of this
and i don't talk much with my friends becos of this
can this be because of how my teeth are arranged..cos i have little gaps inbetween them. Will it help if i get braces?
someone please tell me how i can get rid of my lisp
we don't have a speech therapist where i live(southern part of india)
so is there anyone to help me? |
Arariel
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Joined: 02 Dec 2007
Posts: 25
Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:24 pm
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I had lisp till I was 12 or 13.My problem was that i couldn't correctly pronounce s,l and sh(in my language it's just one letter) and my saliva procces was too fast that's why when i was talking a lot i started mumbling .Well of course i was made fun of and rarely taken serious especially it irritated me when they asked me to repeat what I said!!
I had some speech theraphy but it didn't helped me,I just learned some exercise that's all.One of these exercise was to read aloud,well i started reading books and after 1 year or aproximatelly my lisp dissapeared.So if you want to cure you'r lisp know that there's no fast way! |
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