I have a lisp its where i cant pronounce my S's properly how do i get rid of it?

• my lisp is ruining my life people make comments which realy makes me upset no wounder guys dont want me i have a lisp how do i get rid of it its ruining my life please help me

• Answer:

  I have a friend with the same lisp. She went though speech therapy and it worked for her but she says it was really unnatural so she just went back to the lisp rather than having to try hard to cover it up, it made her mouth ache apparently. Maybe you could try it. My friends lisp really upset her but now she couldn't care less, if people want to make fun over something so minor, let them, but they better not say it while she can hear them. Not everyone makes fun of her though, as she got older, she grew out of it and at one point, a lot of people thought it was cute. As far as I know, people with your type of lisp have it because they have their tongues too far forward when they try to pronounce an 'S'. Try keeping your tongue out of it completely by forcign it to stay within your bottom set of teeth, and try to pronounce the S through your 4 front teeth (two at the top, two at the bottom) instead of your pallete and tongue. If you are having trouble figuiring it out, try making a 'shush' sound and steadliy turn it into just the 'ssssss'. While making the 'shush', your tongue will be in a certain position, to make it a 'ssss', just keep the tongue in the same shape but bring it towards your front teeth very slowly until you get the right sound. That might work but basically, thats the kind of thing a speech thereapist will talk you thourgh. Singing tutors are also the same but also teach people how to get volume and pitch.