• saltesc@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    When I was 5, I went to a speech therapist for an S lisp. I remember first thing they told me was that I’m meant to keep my tongue behind my teeth. I had to say, “Sammy the silly snake slithers by” and nailed it. I forget all the other stuff, but never had a lisp after that very brief and distinct moment.

    All I remember before that was adults saying to me, “No, like this.” and would just hiss at me. Who’d have thought a few seconds of explaining something would actually work.

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      3 months ago

      Most of the time people don’t think about things thoroughly enough to describe them usefully. Or they don’t have the language to describe them.

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      3 months ago

      I was in speech therapy all through elementary school. The only thing I remember was being told “smile when you pronounce your R’s.”

      I honestly should’ve taken a class on how to hold a pencil. Instead of teaching me properly, they just let me type my assignments. It wasn’t until high school that I learned to actually write by staring at a classmate’s hand as she wrote and copying her form. My handwriting is still shit btw. I just don’t get cramps as easily.