I’m a mouth breather in my late 20s. I can’t help it… I’ve been this way since I was a kid. If I try to breathe with my mouth closed, it feels like I’m trying to inhale through a straw someone has pinched shut. Maybe my nasal passages are abnormally small, maybe its my allergies… I dunno, but I can’t afford to go to the dr. to find out.
I try to make sure I don’t breathe loudly in public. I sometimes just hold my breathe in social situations because I hate it when people assume I’m rude or gross because of this. When making important phone calls I struggle not to breathe directly into the phone.
Sometimes I just really wish I didn’t have this problem. Of course the fact that I’m short, overweight, pale and have crooked teeth only makes it worse. 🙁