When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
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Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.
I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.
There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.
Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.
I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it.
Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born.
As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.
Of course everyone says they hate baby talk, but mine was not annoying.
When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.
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