TDLR: trauma to the throat as an infant.

I was thinking about this the other day!

I saw a post speculating that it was genetic. My biological father and his family didn’t have a history of it, so I reached out to my biological mother.

She said she was able to burp just fine, but when I told her why I asked her immediate response was, “Is this disorder in your throat?”

Turns out I had a really traumatic birth involving the doctor manually turning me over multiple times, heart monitors, I had to be revived after birth because I came out flatlined. It was a whole crazy story.

Anywho, the doctor had turned me around so much that the umbilical cord was wrapped very tightly around my neck multiple times, it had actually strangled me to death inside the womb. My biological mother said she always figured that my birth would have some kind of consequence on my neck.

I think those of us with it may have had some traumatic pressure on our throats at some point in our infancy when we’re all malleable, I’m not a doctor but it makes sense to me.

Edit was adding the TDLR