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    27 Things All People With A Lisp Go Through

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    1. When people find out you have a lisp they will make you say certain words to prove it.

    2. And your instant reaction will be:

    3. Which means they’re going to laugh at you.

    4. Initially your confidence will be crushed.

    5. You’ll look at other people talking with ease and envy the hell out of them.

    6. “Why God! Why have you put this curse upon me?!”

    7. You will try and cure it.

    8. No seriously. You’ll put endless hours into researching how to get rid of your lisp, but to no avail.

    9. You wonder why the hell didn’t your parents send you to speech therapy when you were younger.

    10. You then continue to question your parents’ evil motives when they decided to give you a name with an “S” in it.

    11. You end up going to therapy, but it’s too late. You should have done this when you were younger.

    12. You think the guy who put an “S” in “lisp” is a total piece of shit.

    13. During your teenage years you will connect with kids who have temporary lisps from their retainers and braces.

    14. You finally have someone to connect with!

    15. Until they inevitably get them taken off leaving you by yourself, once again.

    16. You accidentally spit on people when you talk.

    17. No seriously, this will happen a lot.

    18. You develop a fear of answering the phone, especially at work.

    19. Having your 8th grade science teacher make you do a speech on “photosynthesis.”

    20. You’ll be compared to Daffy Duck far too often.

    21. Finally after years of negativity you will slowly start to accept your lisp.

    22. You will start to find out about successful people who have lisps, like Jay Leno.

    23. Drew Barrymore.

    24. Olympian Michael Phelps.

    25. Sean Connery, who is the ultimate boss.

    26. And Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

    27. If you have a lisp it also means you probably have a large tongue, which has its...advantages.

    28. It slowly dawns on you that having a lisp is kinda awesome. It makes you unique, it gives you character, and it makes you cute as fuck.