Questions on Pronunciation Worries

[ValgerAce59]

Hi all~
I hope you are all doing well! I had a question about prounouncing words~~I know how this BFS thing can start making you think about every little symptom, and worry about things that never would have even bothered you before, but......
Tonight my daughter was in a ballet, and when we were driving there, I was reading off some of the instructions on where we were to meet, etc..and on one of the papers it said to meet in the 'Musicians Lounge', and I totally obsessed over it all day, because I had trouble saying that! It is hard to explain, but sort of like, when I say 'Musicicans', I kind of feel like I slur my words there, and then I kept trying to say it all night long, and kept messing up with it. Even now, I can say it if I go slow enough and concentrate, but it's like something I'm thinking about too much now. I am of course worried because of my twitching, and thinking from things I've read that slurring words would be a really bad sign, is that true? I was wondering if, like some other symptoms that BFS seems to have in common with ALS, if this might be something that would be a common thing with us BFS'ers. I don't have any trouble swallowing or chewing, and really don't have any other trouble talking, it was just this one thing, and now I feel like I am having trouble with this combination or something. Yikes~ Thanks so much for any help~~(Just another one of my panic attacks!!)...Val

 

[AaronKing1]

I had this symptom begin before my twitching. Often, I would attempt to speak and blend two words for the same item. For example, one day I asked one of my students if they were ready to make up their missing ''tesxam"-a combination of "test" and "exam".


Needless to say for a teacher and former debater, this was a distressing state of affairs. Fortunately, this symptom passed at about six months of bfs-an impossibility with the damage associated with *ls.

 

[TwitchMeSweetheart]

i get this from time to time and now think i may have alwasy done this. BFS has a way of making us hyper sensitive to everything and the more you focus on it the worse it will get.

if everytime before you say the letter S you think in your head, will i say it correctly you are bound to stumble in my experience with myself.

i paid attention in my daily routine and lots of people i work with stumble on words, stutter, slur, misspeak and none of them seem worried.