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Please help me stop lisping!?

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?

Update:

My parents and sister say that I only have it when I think about it. I only think about it when people bring it up which is all the time now.

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    A lisp is usually caused by the shape of the roof of the mouth in relation to the front teeth (since that's where your tongue goes for your s's and th's) if you really can't be bothered doing speech therapy (including attempting to follow an online version) then the only solution would be able to find at way to change the angle of your front teeth, and I doubt any dentist would be willing to crown perfectly healthy teeth unless you chipped at them first yourself, and that's just a whole bad route to go down.

    Casual speech therapy perhaps? One lesson when you can fit it in, bound to be an online course that's flexible.

    In most situations a lisp isn't anything to be ashamed of, it's an interesting addition to a person that you don't see very often and you tend to stop hearing after knowing them for awhile. Depending on the age of the kids you're teaching they may not even notice,if they're older students they may even take the embarrassing "cute" route, which is still a compliment

    Source(s): My boyfriend lisps, a year on and I can't even hear it but he's adamant it's really obvious.
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