Emily

I had a lisp when I was little until I was seven. I couldn't pronounce the TH sound. My dentist put in a tongue thrust device and it stopped it almost immediately. Ever since I got my braces I had trouble pronouncing the S sound, and every one said it would go away. I had my braces taken off 7 months ago and now my lisp is worse! I am in high school and my friends think it is cute and funny, but it is really humiliating. I would lisp once in a while before, but now it is all the time. A few months ago my parents and sister agreed that I do have a lisp, but now they say I don't. I work at the elementary school, and the kids haven't commented on my lisp, but I don't want them and my future students when I become a teacher to have to deal with that. I want to teach English. It would look really dumb if I was teaching a language I can't even speak correctly. This is really killing my self esteem, and it's making me re-evaluate my friendships because they make fun of it. I really don't have time for speech therapy classes. Is there any kind of technique I can do at home, or is there anything my dentist/orthodontist can do? I used to suck my thumb when I was little which made me lisp on my TH sounds, could it be causing the S lisps too?

I had a lisp when I was little until I was seven. I couldn't pronounce the TH sound. My dentist put in a tongue thrust device and it stopped it almost immediately. Ever since I got my braces I had trouble pronouncing the S sound, and every one said it would go away. I had my braces taken off 7 months ago and now my lisp is worse! I am in high school and my friends think it is cute and funny, but it is really humiliating. I would lisp once in a while before, but now it is all the time. A few months ago my parents and sister agreed that I do have a lisp, but now they say I don't. I work at the elementary school, and the kids haven't commented on my lisp, but I don't want them and my future students when I become a teacher to have to deal with that. I want to teach English. It would look really dumb if I was teaching a language I can't even speak correctly. This is really killing my self esteem, and it's making me re-evaluate my friendships because they make fun of it. I really don't have time for speech therapy classes. Is there any kind of technique I can do at home, or is there anything my dentist/orthodontist can do? I used to suck my thumb when I was little which made me lisp on my TH sounds, could it be causing the S lisps too?

My last names are Lapara-Hebert. I was told that Lapara was Italian and that it used to be Laparo. Then I was told that Hebert was French. I know Hebert is French, but when I did my ancestry on the Lapara side of the family, there were mostly French, Germans, and a few English and Italian.

My first name is Emily. I was named after poet Emily Dickinson.

My middle name is Guinevere. I was named after Queen Guinevere (disputed existence).

My (real) last name is Lapara-Hebert. Lapara is my mother's last name, and Hebert is my father's. (My mother was 1/32 Iroquois and the girls keep the mother's last name, but my father would not allow it, so now I have two last names. Yay.)

I was thinking St. Margret of Scotland. She is a direct ancestor on my father's side of the family. I live in a town called Albany, I was born in New Orleans, established by Hungarians. St. Margret was originally from Hungary. There is a church here called St. Margret's named after my ancestor. I thought it would be a good way to honor my ancestor, the town, and the church. There are a few other saints that I admire such as Joan of Arc and Bernadette Soubirous. I also want the name to sound well with my other names even though I know nobody will actually include this name.

So should my confirmation name be St. Margret Queen of Scotland, St. Joan of Arc, or St. Bernadette Soubirous?