Unfortunately for us we have all earned that PhD in Cancer and I'm sure we may have said something "uneducated" before our advanced degree so I usually don't hold such statements against the person and I try to educate them if I can.

Just venting here and now a calmer mind prevails, thank you! I am usually very calm as well, educate them, not sure I want to bother. I will just bite my tongue, can't feel it anyway.

well, today was out first day of school. I still have some problems with my sssss, they sounds more like thththth. I was trying to say a kids name with a lot of sss, and my principal repeated what I said making fun how it sounded. Then I slowed downed and tried to say the name correctly. I think she felt bad after that. She said she was sorry and sometimes she talks like that. I responded "I am missing part of my tongue.' I wanted to go off and say what is your excuse. But I didn't. Why are people so cruel. i guess they just do not think about what they are saying. Some people tell me that I sound wonderfull, but I do not feel like I do.

Tell that principal it's inexcusable to humiliate you in public. She owes you a big apology. She also isn't a good role model for the kids.
It might make it easier for you to explain to the kids that you had surgery on your tongue and some of your words might sound different. Kids are usually very accepting if you tell them what's going on, unfortunately it's the adults who are usually the cruelest. I know my husband had to tell a lot of people in the courts what had happened so that they would be more understanding. Sorry you had to go through this
Good luck

Now how many overly people do you know that have a lick of common sense? They have book learning and that is about it.

Did it again LOL overly educated

Whenever I testify as an expert witness I always try to get the Judges permission , IN ADVANCE, to have a cup of water with me on the stand. I found out the hard way that this approach is the best. Occasionally I will also have to stop myself mid discussion with new clients to explain my dry mouth condition. Just comes with the new territory.

My speech has improved with each surgery to correct the join between tongue and flap. I sounded different after each one.
That�s why I put speech therapy on the back burner after the original operation.
One thing I will always remember is talking to a supplier on the phone.
He asked me what I was eating
I told him I wasn�t eating anything and the reason why I sounded the way I did�..
It went quite on the other end of the phone for a while....then the apologies started..
Needless to say I don�t deal with this person anymore.

Sounds all too familiar. At least your caller got quiet. We were the victims of prank calls at 1 am from some kids who were making a pun on our last name and when I asked them to quit calling, they started calling back even more frequently but this time mocking my speech and asking for the "guy who talk funny" with a garbled imitation of my impediment. We had to disconnect the phones at midnight for a week to get rid of them.
and forget about calling any support help or customer service line that has been outsourced overseas. I quickly tired of "I sorry, no understand, thanking you for repeating please".

Amazing. No sooner does Brian Hill post about how scammers and people trying to sell stuff on OCF sneakily hide their pitches in their signature line with a link to the commercial web site, then I am a victim of the same underhanded behavior on a post of mine that had no other responses. I did behave myself in my reply this time and try to be less "derogatory" since it was just a pitch for DVDs and not a mexican clinic. Still I will never ever use that web site and I will make sure every friend and family member boycotts it also.
So now I have something else to "hate": people who try and profit from our misery and misfortune by trying to take the one safe harbor here at OCF away from us.