I have a mild/occasional stutter and I also have a very unusual mixed accent due to alternating back and forth between New Jersey and Washington and spending lots of time around my German grandma as a child who had an extremely thick accent I picked up a little of as well.When I was a kid, people bulled me heavily for it.In the 2010s, when I was in my 20s, it became passe to make fun of speech impediments, and people also felt an obligation to go out of their way to be accepting Because Of Woke Or Something, so it stopped affecting my life. I started to think it was no big deal.But over time, society became less accepting. Now in 2026, in my thirties, people actually started to make fun of me for it again even though we're all adults, people sometimes avoid associating with me over it because hanging around someone with an annoying voice would make them cringe-by-proxy, multiple women have even told me point blank that it's a deal breaker, which NEVER happened in my 20s.Is it possible I can voice train to sound more normie?
>>34581956>Is it possible I can voice train to sound more normie?Short answer is yes, vocal couches exist.Longer answer is that if you think in terms of "normie" then your speech impediment is far from your biggest problems.
>>34582080I wouldn't say that "normies" really exist per se, in the sense that almost everyone has some axis along which they're a weird freak and in the sense that if you have uncommon interests, opinions, or hobbies there are lots of countercultural spaces around them where you can fit in, but I would say that I am using that language because of the sense that having appearance or mannerisms that stand out seems to carry a much higher social penalty than it did even just a few years ago, even as paradoxically things like having "alt" fashion have become more normalized
