As a kid, I sounded like the love child of Porky the Pig and Tweety Bird. No it was not because I was a looney toons character, rather I suffered from a severe speech impediment. My impediment did not just affect my speech, but all aspects of communication. Reading, writing, and speaking seem impossible to my adolescent brain. I had taken speech, reading, and writing classes since I was five. Yet in elementary school, I still was not up to par with the standard. In elementary school, my teachers insisted I was not adequate to be in the normal classroom and opted to place me in a special needs class. My mom refused and instead assigned me a tutor and continuously practiced my reading, writing, ad speaking with my. By the time, I was a fourth grade my teacher declared proficient in all…show more content… Since I never shut up the constantly talking helped with my speech. It took time for speech, reading, and writing to improve, but with time, my impediment lost its grasp on me. In middle school, my English teacher recommended I take an honors English class for me it was a shock but a wonderful surprise at that. In the honors classes it was a struggle, but with enough work, it became easier. As I progressed through school, I continued to take challenging classes, not only in English, but also in a range of classes. Currently at my school, I am an ambassador for my school and I have job at Starbucks where I start conversations all the time. To my younger self it is a portentous deal to be able to speak in front of people without worry about having to repeat yourself three times. My impediment taught me that it is possible to overcome a disability or anything. If something is difficult that does not mean you accept it, it means you work harder until it comes naturally. I do not tolerate my impediment defining me. I never have and never
