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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks everyone. Now I fear that I overstated the problem. (I get the irony in a post about articulation.) Based on my research it sounds like a bilateral lisp and the mush mouth is more like the extra saliva that appears when she speaks quickly.  It mostly makes her speech sound more juvenile than it might otherwise sound. It's certainly not crippling. I think my guilt at assuming it would go away went into overdrive. [/quote]

Something doesn’t have to be crippling for a person to internalize complicated feelings about why they didn’t receive help on their timeline. My younger sister didn’t tell my parents until she was an adult that she deeply struggled with self-image over her teeth, and always wondered why they had paid for braces for me and not for her. My teeth needed severe correction- hers only would have been aesthetic. They were genuinely surprised as they recalled how much she made fun of me when I had braces. When she mentioned it they realized how she felt neglected, which was never their intent.
It’s okay to downplay the lisp, but please don’t downplay the potential that your inaction may already be hurting her. It’s worth it to check in with her sooner rather than later.[/quote]

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