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not sure what's going on with my voice As long as I can remember, I've had these problems, but in recent years it's been getting a lot worse. I don't know if you could properly call this a stutter, but that is a part of it. These things happen: -I mumble a lot. Really it's more of a slur. The words all fall together and it sounds like I'm drunk -I mix up word order way too much. Generally I'll switch up subjects and verbs, eg "I need to brush the cleans" when I obviously want to say "I need to clean the brushes" -I lisp. This kinda gets mixed up with my slur. For example, it's difficult to for me to say the word "brush" (I'm using this example because I'm a house painter at the moment). When I can't say a word, I'll trail off into a slur, but sometimes it'll be more of a typical lisp sound. -I stutter. No words in particular (at least not that I've noticed), but I often have to concentrate pretty hard to get things out. Maybe this is born of my anxiety over lisping, slurring, and mixing up word order -I have a good deal of social anxiety in a lot of situations unrelated to my speech that exacerbates these problems. I get really anxious about my voice and my speech because I'm already feeling nervous. I obsess over how exactly I'm going to say something a lot of the time. If I don't obsess and I simply blurt out whatever's on my mind, it usually (usually) works much better. I think about intonation, syntax, enunciation, and the argument or content of what I say almost constantly when I'm in a social setting. Is there a name for this mess? I'm not sure if this is the right place to pose this question but I'm not sure where else to ask. Thanks for your input.