Can my lisp be from sucking my thumb as a child?

Question

i want to know if sucking my thunb until age 9 had an affect on my speech today? i have interdental lisp...

Answer 1

thumb sucking person.

Has nothing to do with that.

Answer 2

It sounds like the inter-dental lisp could be because of the prolonged thumb-sucking. This is because during sucking, your tongue moves forward and backward. Frequent thumbsucking would reinforce this movement and cause the tongue to do this during speech too, thus creating the inter-dental lisp.

If the lisp affects your work or school or if you feel self-conscious about it, I would advice you to seek help from a speech therapist. They can help you with speech exercises to  correct your lisp.

Hope this helps

Answer 3

No, your lisp is caused by the shape of your mouth which was determined before you were born based upon your genes.  You can blame someone in your family for the shape of your mouth therefore your lisp also the size of your front teeth may have a bit to do with it.  When I was in 1st-6th grade I had a lisp but that was because my front teeth were too big for my small mouth.  Once I grew into my permanent front teeth the lisp went away.  My brother always has this argument with parents about kids mouth shapes.  He says it isn't pacifiers or fingers or thumbs that determine the shape of a child's mouth and the alignment of their teeth, it is genetics.

Answer 4

It absolutely could have caused your lisp. That is the warning pediatricians give parents now about children sucking their thumbs or using a pacifier for a long time. It can change the way the teeth are formed and therefore, cause a lisp. However, it absolutely is something that can be corrected with a bit of speech therapy, if you are self-conscious about it.

Answer 5

yes, most likely.   My daughter has friends with lisps from sucking their thumbs all the way up into high school.

Answer 6

definatly. My son had a lisp due to his dummy. It stopped the muscles developing properly. I got rid of it and he had to drink with a straw to help strengthen it

Answer 7

no -you are unique.

Answer 8

Yes thumb sucking, having a binky, sucking on a bottle past 12 months old, over use of sippy cups requiring sucking...all can increase the risk of speech problems and teeth problems.

Answer 9

if you have your thumb in your mouth, then you'd certainly have a lisp.

so take your thumb out of your mouth.

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now, wasn't that easy?!