Thursday, May 23, 2019

I had speech therapy

When I was a child I was tested at school for different things. At one point the school said I had scoliosis, that disease where your is curved and as you grow it gets worse and worse. That turned out not to be true - my back is fine.

I was also diagnosed with a speech impediment. They said that I had a lisp, which I still have. Itâ?Ts not terrible, but it gets worse when Iâ?Tm. tired.

So I had to go to speech therapy. I grew up at a time when it was embarrassing to have to go to something other than your normal classes. They would come and get me, then I would go to the front office and go in the little room where a lady had me read and gave me tips on how to say â?oessâ? without sticking my tongue out.

I guess it worked. Every once in a while people will give me a hard time about the way I talk. I remember I went on a fam trip (flew in the cockpit to observe how the pilots interacted with air traffic control) and a pilot recognized my voice because of my slight lisp. But otherwise itâ?Ts been no big deal.

I still donâ?Tt like the way I say zero, though...