Sounds petty and pathetic but it really makes me see red

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This is obviously MY problem, I know that but I need to know if anyone else has ever seen red over something so small, does it mean we're heading down a slippery slope?

Its basically the fact that DP pronounces things wrong ALL THE TIME. He says "Sumfink" instead of "something" for instance which just makes me cringe.

The other day we were in the supermarket and he said "I fancy Fajitas for tea" (he actually pronounced it "fajitas" instead of Fa hee tas iyswim?

I've told him so many times how to pronounce it, it just winds me up and makes me think he does it on purpose. I told him "you mean fa he tas?" and he said "yeah, I always say that wrong don't I?" and he picked up the packet thing and said "right, so we have faJitas, what else do we need?"

It does sound petty, I know (hence the name-change) but it drives me ffing nuts. It makes him sound so thick.

Another one is Squidward from spongebob, DP INSISTS on calling it Squidworth. Over and over again, no matter how many times he is told by the kids that its wrong.

The band Evanescence he constantly calls "Evervesence"

It's just everything, all the time. Does he do it on purpose? It's got to the point where I can't contain myself from correcting him all the time which I know makes me look and sound like a complete twat but if the kids can speak properly, why can't he??

Njmomof1, I think it was the comment that he had been walking around sounding like a dick, because of his dyslexia, that comes across as mocking and to many would be offensive.

My brother is dyslexic, it wasn't diagnosed until secondary school so he really struggled throughout primary. He was labelled naughty and stupid, when it was his reading that was holding him back in all subjects.

He even refused extra time in his GCSEs because he was embarrassed. He is very bright just that our education system's methods of testing don't suit him.

Even now, at 26, he struggles with things like texting and I've heard people laugh and take the piss out of him in the pub when he asks what something says or how to spell something. He can more than hold his own but this isn't the point.

Even though it mightn't be a big, serious thing in your house, dyslexia can really hold people back in life and it saddens me to hear special needs being mocked.

Sorry it's taken ages to respond Supercherry - I do totally understand about late diagnosis cause DP had the same situation (DP just turned 28) but like I say DP made the same joke about himself and some of the things he's done because of his condition, that comment was in reference to that and him, and in no way was it meant to sound like I was stereotyping all people that suffer from this condition because like I said in an earlier thread, it's taken him 3yrs to open up to me about his capabilities and he knows that if he needs any support I'm the first one waiting to help, we actually sit together to read some nights so if I sound mocking in tone it's towards DP and nobody else, he has just gone through these posts and has just laughed about it.

So I'm sorry to those who were offended but it was my DP i was mocking not the condition or other people's situations.

I suspect he is enjoying annoying you.

Leave him. I could not bear to be around somebody who made mistakes at all, ever. I would be physically sick if I had to kiss the mouth of a man who couldn't pronounce "Squidward" correctly.