Stranger With A Lisp

[Digz]

I have been diagnosed with PTSD and DID.... both improved markedly since the beginning of therapy 6 or so years ago.
Still, I struggle with my dissociation. It is so very rare I look in the mirror and see what I'm expecting to see... think my face is as it should be or was last time I looked. I forget things always. I miss conversations sometimes, that I was involved in.
The weirdest thing I have noticed lately, which concerns me most is that I have, on and off, developed a lisp. I hear it when I'm talking, out of nowhere. I've never had that before. Most of me doesn't want to know about it, to be honest. I'm a bit over it all. Perhaps I should dissociate from my dissociation, so I don't have to deal with it!

 

[Changing4Best]

I stumble on words sometimes and I think speaking more slowly helps to keep that from happening. I sometimes try to "fit in a word edgewise" when others are speaking, and they have started onto a long monolog. I think I need to just sit still, listen until they are done speaking, and then speak. I know I should do this, but sometimes I get excited and "jump the gun", so to speak. Maybe something like that happens to you too?

 

[shimmerz]

I lisp at times too. The lisper is a 'part of me'. I am not DID but do struggle with 'pieces of me'. I have learned for myself, that by noticing these changes in state or functioning, they many times allow me to see that I am affected by something (switching, so to speak). I watch carefully for them. They help me step forward in awareness. Not sure if this may apply to you

 

[darrenS]

i suffered from a lisp for many years and had to learn how not to get stressed when i talked , otherwise it became a spray :) my kids always teased me by asking me to say six...i would say 5 and 1 - but overall . what can you do..just remember to talk slowly .

 

[Friday]

Welcome @Digz

. Perhaps I should dissociate from my dissociation, so I don't have to deal with it!

LOL... For true.

I'm not DID but relate to being startled every time I see myself in the mirror, or hear my voice repeated back to me. The voice is easy, I pick up the accents of wherever I happen to be living. Grew up moving. I don't notice the accent I'm using until I hear it on tape. I always sound the same in my own head. The accent up here is weird. All mushy. Mumble-speak.

In my head Im 17 with a Southern (US) accent, or 22 with a British one. Not 30-mumble as I am.

My past and my present got in a bit of a tussle a couple years ago (again), and things have been wrong way up for awhile.

Welcome.

 

[Digz]

Thanks guys.

I lisp at times too. The lisper is a 'part of me'.

That is exactly how I feel. I have spent a lot of time and therapy learning about and accepting all the other parts, but the part with the lisp is new. I know I need to accept it. I guess there was just kind of wanted to ignore it too and pretend it wasn't happening.

All of your words help though. I never knew this forum existed until yesterday. I live in a really small, remote place. It's so nice to talk to others with similar experiences, I've never been able to do that before

 

[Digz]

Lol. And now I have just demonstrated by 'newness' by accidentally posting that whole reply as a quote!!

 

[shimmerz]

LOL. We've all done that (more than once, I bet). Welcome @Digz!

 

[joeylittle]

Fixed that for you, @Digz. We generally notice whilst moderating :). And welcome!

 

[Digz]

Thank you! @joeylittle