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thedreadvampy · 1 year ago

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Just listened back to a drunk voice note I sent Kofi on Saturday and holy shit you guys nobody told me how bad I lisp when I'm drunk

Literally most of the time the remnants of my childhood lisp are like. a slight softness/buzz on sibilant sounds. In this message it's a full on eth. "That thoundth nithe." there's even like. emphasis on the eth. I sound like a cartoon character. Don't get me wrong it's adorable. wild though. I literally didn't even notice when I was recording it that I was stumbling on the sibilances.

All I can thay is I'm thoooooo lucky that I'm the twin they gave a name containing an eth, not the twin they gave a name beginning with S. "Ruth" is a blessing to a child with a pronounced lisp. "Lisp", by the way, is not.

#red said #hi my name is ruth thedreadvampy and it took me over a decade to learn to speak while keeping my tongue off the back of my teeth #i remember finding it SO FRUSTRATING as a kid. i never had speech therapy cause it was never like. unintelligible. just noticeable.#but i hated it so much i was so embarrassed by it and mum and my siblings would be like JUST KEEP YOUR TONGUE CLEAR OF YOUR TEETH #and i was like I CAN'T THATTH IMPOTHIBLE!!!! WHERE IS IT MEANT TO GO WHERE IT ITHNT CONTACTING MY TEETH????#anyway i largely lost the list by secondary school but it still pops up if I'm drunk or tired or talking too fast #which implies it still requires An Amount of attention to get an S sound out I've just successfully sublimated it #but hahaha it's SO exaggerated in this voice clip i cannot BELIEVE I was fully unaware of it #also. I've just realised. i was this precocious little girl with big round glasses freckles pigtails and an adorable lisp #i was a fucking sitcom child. help. adorably toddling up to adults and telling them solemnly in a soft lisp about emotional health #recontextualising all my memories of interactions as a child around the fact that i was literally the goddamn #schmaltzy Hollywood sentimental image of idealised childhood. you know uhhhh what's her name? in Matilda? the blonde girl with pigtails?#'my mommy says they're cute'? THAT fuckin kinda voice and demeanour and also you are my teacher and I'm 4 and i keep correcting your maths #unbearable.

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