#forensics help

[interp-memes]

hi! i have a tournament tomorrow and i just finished my oratory on monday lol. i’m mostly memorized but i’m not super comfortable yet and i know the writing is not great. do you have any tips for memorizing quickly? and tips for overall being an engaging speaker? thank you so so much

Bruh me

I've shared some tips before on this, but one I've tried out recently is writing the parts you're not comfortable with in WASHABLE (vvv important) crayola markers on the walls of your shower, then going over your piece in the shower. (This sounds incredibly weird but it works)

Write down all you can remember from your piece without looking at it, then comparing the two before doing it again, this one works soooo well

Hallways, hallways, hallways! Ain't nothing like practicing like you preform!!

No but seriously if you find yourself in a situation the day before where you don't have to do anything for a solid 10 minutes just do your piece. Even if you have to murmur/mouth it it's still good practice for your memory and brain.

Good luck!!!

[interp-memes]

I’m thinking I want to try oo, would talking about my chronic illness and physical abnormality be a good topic 👀❤️

Yes! Personalizing the topic makes the speech all the more impactful. One thing I would take caution with is not making it seem like your saying 'look at me I have all these bad things', which is never the intention when writing on these sorts of topics but they can come across as such. I wanted to write about something similar last year (my rareish mental disorder and how not realizing I had it hurt me) so instead of focusing on just my ailments I focused my speech on the dangers of misdiagnosis. Perhaps talk about the stigma around it, how having these things affect you and the community, whatever feels most important to you.

Good luck, and happy writing! Tell me how this goes! :D

[interp-memes]

hey! i’m writing my oratory on empathy (and other things that i can’t think of how to describe correctly lol) and in the first section i talk a lot about how i personally apologize too much and say sorry even when it’s not necessary. i like how it turned out, but i’m afraid it’ll come off as condescending and a kind of ‘oh haha it’s so annoying how polite i am haha’. do you have any advice on how i could address this topic in a better way? thank you so much!!

Hey, I'm doing a speech on empathy too! How cool is that?

Anyway, with this topic, it's really hard not to have that undertone because empathy is based on that aspect of this is sad, it's making me sad and now it's making you sad.

Perhaps bring up the condition known as hyper empathy (which is what it sounds like), and talk about how it makes the feeling all the more worse when you can't control your emotions and people mistake it as a cry for attention and make you feel annoying.

So basically, you have to try and make it come off not like a 'I like putting things in rainbow order, I'm so OCD' type of condition but a 'this is real, it effects my everyday life and it hurts that people don't take it seriously' kind of thing. This will make people feel more connected to what your saying and not going 'wow that's so quirky'

I really hope this goes well for you! Best of luck!!