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17 Oct 2011, 3:08 pm

I have never been treated for speech issues, though have always had some difficulties. My speech can be staggered, doesn't flow naturally. And I have difficulty pronouncing certain words. Most unfortunately I have trouble pronouncing my own first name :roll: , so for the last 10 years have been using a nickname in its place. It is always awkward to explain that my name is not my real name, especially because my real name is such a "normal" name, why would anyone bother to change it?

Do you think this kind of speech difficulty is because of AS? Anyone with related experiences?



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17 Oct 2011, 3:19 pm

Yup. I'm very difficult to understand over the phone for a lot of folks.

I believe it's mild Dyspraxia in my case, but only tends to affect my speech. Oh, yeah. While hitting the backspace key while typing this, I recall that it also affects my typing. I've always been a very slow typist because of it.

Dyspraxia is very commonly co-morbid with Autism.


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18 Oct 2011, 12:30 am

Yes, I've experienced the same thing. It's like I see the word in my head but I can't pronounce/speak it. For example I can't say the word 'hospital' without messing it up. It's weird.



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18 Oct 2011, 12:38 am

linoleum is super hard. And anatomy used to be hard until I started watching Grey's Anatomy.



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23 Oct 2011, 3:59 pm

Yes I have difficulty with speech sometimes, as I have had people tell me that I speak too fast sometimes, plus I find it hard to say 'statistics' as get very tongue-tied and also I find it hard to pronounce one of my medication that I am on for IBS. The medication is called mebeverine but I can never pronounce it right so when I ask for a repeat prescription I sometimes get weird looks because of this.


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23 Oct 2011, 11:09 pm

i find the toughest word to say, is the spanish word "refrigerador" - all those trilled R's so close together are too much for me and my reluctantly rhotacistic yankee tongue.



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23 Oct 2011, 11:11 pm

auntblabby wrote:
i find the toughest word to say, is the spanish word "refrigerador" - all those trilled R's so close together are too much for me and my reluctantly rhotacistic yankee tongue.


I can't roll R's at all, and I thank God that Brazil doesn't speak Spanish.



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24 Oct 2011, 12:57 am

Sometimes my speech is really good, sometimes I stutter on pretty much every word, sometimes I stagger with my word flow, and when my headache gets really bad I sound like I'm having a stroke. There are some words that trip me up no matter what, though, words that begin with SL, and South are the most common ones- For South I always want to stick an L in there, so it sounds like "Selth" or "Soulth."



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24 Oct 2011, 1:24 am

Ganondox wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
i find the toughest word to say, is the spanish word "refrigerador" - all those trilled R's so close together are too much for me and my reluctantly rhotacistic yankee tongue.


I can't roll R's at all, and I thank God that Brazil doesn't speak Spanish.

i thought portuguese speakers had to roll their R's also. the brazilian singer agostino dos santos [dubbing over breno mello] trilled his R's singing manha de carnaval below-
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwDYcyqn7DY&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]



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24 Oct 2011, 1:28 am

twich wrote:
Sometimes my speech is really good, sometimes I stutter on pretty much every word, sometimes I stagger with my word flow, and when my headache gets really bad I sound like I'm having a stroke. There are some words that trip me up no matter what, though, words that begin with SL, and South are the most common ones- For South I always want to stick an L in there, so it sounds like "Selth" or "Soulth."


i knew somebody who kept calling the Seinfeld tv comedy program "Steinfeld." i wonder what that particular speech impediment [the inadvertant introjection of syllables/consonants/vowels within a word] is called?



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24 Oct 2011, 11:48 am

For me, I think my speech has worsened over the years. I've started stuttering and stammering a lot more in the last few years. However, I've also started pushing myself to speak out more in that same amount of time, so I'm sure the two are connected.



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24 Oct 2011, 3:57 pm

I have good days and bad days. On a good day I can pronounce Eyjafjallajökull and on a bad day I can't pronounce my name.


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