Bobby kennedy jr speech problem

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has an extremely hoarse voice.

The year-old previously shared that his now signature raspiness is the result of a rare neurological disorder called spasmodic dysphonia, which he was diagnosed with in

“I had a very very strong voice until I was 46 years old.

It was unusually strong,” he said during a news broadcast in June “It makes my voice tremble. At the time, I didn’t know what was wrong with it. But when I would go on TV, people would write me letters and say, ‘You have spasmodic dysphonia.’”

“I cannot listen to myself on TV,” he said at the time.

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“I will never listen to this broadcast, and I won’t listen to any. So I feel sorry for you guys having to listen to me.”

Spasmodic dysphonia is a chronic neurological speech disorder that results in involuntary spasms of the muscles that open or close the vocal folds.

It causes the voice to suddenly sound breathy, strained,