I was born about a month premature. I was diagnosed with a speech impediment which in my case I had a hard time saying certain words, letters, making sentences and I would stutter or mumble when I tried to talk to anyone.
I started speech therapy at the age of three since that was when people noticed I had a speech impediment. I’ll always remember how it was in school. When I started school I had to be taken out of classes about three times a week for therapy, there weren’t that many other students who were pulled out of class. I hated this since I was always made fun of for having special classes. I remember time when I was in middle school and the speech therapist came to the classroom door to get me since she was new and everyone started whispering and laughing at me until I left the class.
I was always self conscious of my speech and became very shy and quiet. This made it difficult to have many friends since while in school and in daycare I didn’t talk at all most of the time I still don’t talk that much except around people I know since I always thinks I’m being judged based upon the way I talk. I never liked and still don’t like speaking aloud in class. It stinks when I’m in classes and I know something but just can’t get myself to raise my hand or just say what I want to.
Once I started middle school having a speech impediment affected me the most since the other kids in my classes would make fun of me and thought it was fun. I always went home hating school since out of school I could be myself and not have to worry about being made fun of. I was always called retard and stupid. Being called retard hurt me the most because I never understood why people could just call others names like that. After 7th grade I was starting to get sick of being made fun of and leaving classes for speech therapy so finally I asked if I had to go anymore. My speech therapist said that I have had all the help they could give me so I finally I was happy not having speech therapy. I still have problems with speech and socializing with people but I have some amazing friends now and a lot of people there for me now.
Having a speech impediment has made me see the world differently and has made me different from other people since I don’t go around making fun of everyone since I know everyone is different. This is my personal essay about struggling with speech.
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I want to start my peer comment by letting you know that I admire the fact that you wrote your essay on something so personal. It really takes alot of courage to write about something you struggled with your whole life, especially when other people are going to read about it. The things that stood out to me most were the sentences you write about how other kids judged you and felt the need to make rude comments. Im sure everyone has been talked about and made fun of and sometimes a person wonders why me? Why am I the one being talked about? By stating that in your essay it lets readers know that there not the only ones, and there are people that are going to accept you for who you are, and not care about a setback someone may have.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you can put a little more detail on how your speech has improved and how it differs from how it was years ago? Or maybe you can talk a little more about your friends? How you met? What you guys like to do in spare time?
Overall I thought it was a nice essay, like I said it takes alot of courage to write about something so personal!