Do you think people with speaking challenges are ever treated differently?

Question

Speaking challenges include stuttering, those with a lisp, etc.
Personally, how do you view these people?

I'm using this subject for research so please be respectful and answer the questions honestly. Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes, I treat them differently. I talk slower to them, enunciate what I say, and am especially patient until they finish what they are saying. I don't make fun of them, although some people do. I encourage them to contact the Stuttering Foundation if they stutter and ASHA for other speaking difficulties. Everyone should learn how to respond to and help those who stutter, lisp, or the like.

Answer 2

Oh, I definitely think they are treated differently and that probably is not a positive reaction. You'll always have those jerks who will want to make fun of the person by imitating them or telling an associated lame joke. There are also the (probably well intentioned) person who can not help but stare at them. I also have known people who have talked to them as if they can't hear - that would easily explain their difficulty?? and then there will always be my mother who will ask them ' how hard was it growing up with something like that?'

I know most people will say I don't treat them any differently.
For some that is very true. For others, your emotional as well as physical responses might tell otherwise.

Hope this helps

Answer 3

Of course, anyone who does not fit into the "norms" are looked at as a curiosity from the very first encounter. Some handle it better than others but all treat us a little differently

Answer 4

As a child and young adult, I had a terrible stuttering problem. Life was pretty miserable....very few people would make fun of you to your face, but if you had to talk, you could feel the tension in the air as it took you 5 minutes to get 2 words out. I can only compare it to the feeling of odd man out when a person that is terminally ill is hanging around healthy folks. The healthy folks don't mean to make the person feel bad, or odd, they simply begin to act differently, because they just don't know what to say or do. Hope that makes sense.

Answer 5

Yes, I had a firsthand experience like this right after I had a wisdom tooth taken out. I was afraid to move my jaw too much at all because of pain and bleeding but had to go to a pharmacy for pain meds where they had some trouble understanding me. I was treated very badly until the pharmacist realized what was going on.

Answer 6

i dated a guy, regretablly, for a number of years, who stuttered. nobody knows the reason pple stutter but he believed that when he hit his head at a young age that's what caused it. yes, ppl are treated differently because of their speach impedaments. he was talked about behind his back, called names and all sorts of stuff. when i first began dating this loser, (and i only call him a loser cause he's a deadbeat, not cause he stutters) all my friends asked if it bothers me or if it concerned me. nah, only if it was a long annoying moment where he couldn't spit it out so he'd have to find another word for it. all porky pig style. lol
but if he knew what he was saying, words would just fly out of his mouth no problem, so i think it's a matter of concentration, at least for him. when singing too, no problems. and it's not hereditary like some uneducated ppl think so my son didn't get it, i've had ppl say he's gonna stutter, stupid!
of course there are the ppl who have the s sound at the back of their mouth like with their back teeth. a friend of mine in high school was teased for years because he sounded "funny."
there are also older kids who talk like...replacing a w sound for an r sound. it drives me crazy. my sister is a SLP so she says it's not really the kids fault they speak like so. it could be a problem in the mouth or toungue or any number of reasons. i think it has to do with parents thinking their little mijo sounds so cute and never attempt to fix it. they just don't care to correct speach. and that bugs me to no end. when i hear a kid speaking like such, i can't help to feel sorry for the child b/c i fear a lack of education they might be receiving.
i hope my rant helps. =)

Answer 7

i have a slight hearing impairment and people who can't hear are often treated as if they were stupid. i think the same goes for those with speaking challenges. because of my hearing difficulties some words don't come out right... like "envelope"... i'm not an idiot, actually a college graduate, but i've spent most of my adult life trying to find other words to use instead of that one so that i don't get looked at funny or laughed at.

Answer 8

I view everyone the same but many others don't. But, a speaking challenge is curable, start looking at neuro linguistic programming and books on boosting confidence etc.

It's all in the mind, hon.

Anthony Robbins is a good name for you to start with.

Answer 9

As a child, I "tongue-thrusted" (whatever that means), and had speech therapy. I would get made fun of before that. I also hate having to listen to people who 'th' their 's's. I'm sure they're often treated as though they are less intelligent.

Answer 10

i think ppl with ne kind of challenge are for the most part treated differently. personally, i try not too treat ne one different b/c i wouldn't want to be treated different.