Have you ever heard people that have a lisp? People that pronounce the S sound as a TH with their tongue touching their teeth.
David Freeberg from the All-in podcast. has a Lisp. Steve Jobs had one also but very faint.
There are no known causes for Lisp, according to the scientific community.
When I was in elementary school, I met a boy that had a lisp and I somehow started to develop one as I spent more and more time with him. When I realized it, it was almost too late. I could no longer pronounce the S sound normally. That started to bug me. When I consciously tried to pronounce the S correctly I did not know anymore how to do it. My brain had gotten used to this new way of speaking and new neural pathways had formed to support this new way of speaking.
I would spend days trying to find how to rediscover how to position my tongue to say my S correctly, then when I would succeed, I would pronounce the S correctly over and over again, to re-use the old S sound pathways and this is how I cured myself of LISP.
We can draw a parallel between Stuttering and Lisp. In my opinion, both problems are psychological and both are hard to overcome, but not impossible. When we do something repeatadly, our subconscious mind accepts this as an automatic behavior and replicates it easily. When we want to change an automatic behavior, we need to practice and practice the new way to teach our subsconscious mind, the new way of doing things, until it becomes automatic.
It is essential, to practive speaking fluently to stutter less. Contrary to people who have a Lisp, people who stutter can speak normally when they are alone, this is what they should practice until their brain will retrain itself with this new normal.
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