To be worried DS developing a lisp?

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He spoke early, great speech

A friend of his has a lisp

DS(5) has taken to speaking all his words as though he has a lisp/speech difficulties

I keep asking him to talk properly and find it really irritating tbh and now he will talk properly a few words and slip back into it naturally so I assume he does this all day at school also

AIBU to be worried he actually might make himself need speech therapy as he's doing it so much?

Anyone?

I think this is a thing. No evidence but only anecdotally. I had a stutter when I was younger and my younger cousin used to copy me. I went to speech therapy and I don’t have one any more but he still does. This of course could be a coincidence. Maybe some speech therapists can confirm? Could you not take him regardless?

Oh no. I hope it's not a thing. I was hoping i was worrying unnecessarily. It's so annoying as his speech was amazing so young and feels so rediculous if he's made himself have problems

He won't have made himself have a problem. He just wants to be like his friend. It'll pass. It just shows he is a social being.

DD had been talking with a bit of a false lisp as she was desperate for her tooth to fall out. Now it has and her genuine lisp is completely different. That too will pass.