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Flaws with Benefits
Our faults don’t define us, they design us.
For nearly my entire life, my tongue sat awkwardly inside my small jaw. It made it so that I couldn’t correctly pronounce complex sounds. This led to incoherent babbling, which led to bullying and a ruined self esteem.
The hardest thing for me to do was make the ‘r’ sound, which I still struggle with to this day. However, if you were to listen to me speak, you would never guess that I consciously press the sides of my tongue to my teeth every time I need to make the sound.
It’s difficult, it’s annoying. And, sometimes, I make a mistake and stumble over my own words.
However, I no longer think that having a speech impediment was the worst thing to happen. Looking back at my life, I can see how the dots connect. I would never have become the person I currently am if I didn’t struggle with speaking.
Everyone has something they wish they could change about themselves. Would you ever think that maybe this so called flaw actually helped make you, you?
“Mute” on Purpose
