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You politely order a coffee with cream and a water—then, once he leaves, you nudge your colleague asking if she heard the waiter’s lisp. It was so apparent, particularly on the /s/ in “start”! She nods and whisper-shouts that of course she heard it—how could she not??? You respond that you want to get in there and fix it! He is a waiter, talking to patrons all day, and he is talking like that? It is just so cringe. You say you feel bad for him because he must feel so self-conscious talking. What if I say that the waiter has no problem with his lisp? What if I say that he does feel self-conscious about it because he went through 12 years of speech therapy with a constant focus on eliminating that lisp? 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