It's not a nasty cold ... ... it's spasmodic dysphonia.(Brief Article)

"Oh, my! It sounds like you've got that same nasty cold that I had last week."

This was the observation that Peggy Miller grew accustomed to from strangers in person and over the phone each time she tried to speak. "At first, I would protest," Miller recalls. "I would try to explain that this was a neurogenic voice disorder that I had no control over. Finally, I decided that it was more trouble attempting to explain than just keeping quiet. This slowly become a philosophy, and I found myself speaking less and less and becoming more socially ...

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