postr/StutterApril 24, 2020

Has anyone else developed a stutter and other speech impediments due to your eustachian tubes being blocked off by overly englarged tonsils when you were younger?

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Has anyone else developed a stutter and other speech impediments due to your eustachian tubes being blocked off by overly englarged tonsils when you were younger? I had a certain degree of hearing loss prior to having my tonsils removed when I was three. They were pressing up against my eustachian tubes and while I can't remember anything from that period in my life, I was told that I drooled a lot as a result, couldn't swallow food properly and didn't really saying anything other than "Momma". There may be a neurological component to some of this, but I believe that the hearing loss severely impacted my speech development and as a result I've struggled with stuttering, talking too fast and enunciating properly since. I'm pretty well adjusted these days and sound like everyone else for the most part, with the occasional stutter here and there, etc. I'm told it can be difficult to understand me at times, but I'm whatever about it. I'm curious though if anyone else has experienced anything like this. I've only met one other person in my life who stuttered and that was the only speech impediment we shared. Never met anyone who had the holy trinity of stuttering, talking too fast and slurring like me.

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Causes & VariabilitySpeech & Stuttering

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Neurological & BrainRepetitions & Prolongations