OH! you're right! I hadn't considered that angle too! I have to take notes and/or think about what's going on in lectures 'cause I can't remember information that way (voices sound like music to me, so I get their emotional impressions and not the information; and usually the teachers before I changed majors were bored as fuck).

And, well, also I think it's also cause I was shunted into the learning disability class for speech training 'cause my teacher in elementary school couldn't understand me. I still have a lisp though I'm much more understandable.

Also, my accent irritates me. ::wry grin::