I’m awaiting insurance from my workplace. Here in Canada some might give $1000 a year to spend. But until then I’m unable to really pay for these things. A few years back though my mom sent me to a SLP on her own dollar to some woman and it was a totally gruesome and cringeworthy embarrassment that I was feeling. I don’t want that again if I ever seek a SLP. The feeling of being talked down to as a disabled kid even though I was 25 then. I left after the first and only session. And that has darkened my experience since. I guess when I did have it in school the SLP they gave me was the same for over 11 years and we knew each other. Sadly she passed away from cancer a couple of years after I graduated. But she was lowkey and very chill and treated me as an adult.