1. Our voices are extremely complicated things.

We don’t realize just how many different sounds we can make until we are limited to just a handful of them.

2. It’s almost more painful to listen to yourself trying to talk than it is to actually try to talk.

3. Whispering is so much more effort than talking.

4. WOW we say a lot of words in a day.

5. The whole situation would actually be really comical if it weren’t so frustrating.

6. Charades is hard.

7. It’s difficult to avoid talking for several hours

...but it is (not surprisingly) very effective in regaining your speaking abilities.

8. Tea with honey never tasted so good.

(Even if it didn’t help much.)

9. Losing the ability to express yourself the way you normally would is kinda humbling.

Some people just can’t speak. Period. And yet they carry on. You can, too.

10. Every statement sounds more conspiratorial when gruffly whispered.

11. Laughing itself is endlessly humorous.

You sound inexplicably broken instead of amused. Which just causes more broken-sounding laughing. It’s a vicious cycle.