spine
12-05-2008, 01:39 AM
Hello,
This is the first stuttering forum I've run into. It's interesting to see the thoughts of other people who stutter - the only other ones I'd met before are family members who are hesitant to discuss it at length.
I'm a college student in eastern USA and stuttering annoys the hell out of me but it's also not the worst affliction I can imagine. I guess I stutter moderately. Some days I can barely say any words at all, and other days I can say most words except the ones that count, like my first name or the precise answer to the question. I've been conditioning myself since high school to say what I need to say regardless of the bizarre pronunciations. For this reason I'm a little hard to embarrass (not to say it can't happen), and the main complaint I have about stuttering is that it is so depressingly inefficient.
One reason became so relentless about practicing talking is that my mother stutters a lot and I actually had no idea until I was 16. All through childhood, while I was flipping out that people thought I couldn't read when I could actually write circles around them and their moms, she was telling me it was ok, with what I thought was just a retarded vocabulary. She never once mentioned that she has the same impediment; she spends her life pretending not to know words or know the answer to anything, ever. It's a terrifying prospect to me. I think I do better blushing twenty times a day from speech difficulties than I would in silence.
I'm interested in finding out details about the speech and thought patterns of other people who stutter. I'm also interested in discussing the evidence I have that people's reactions to unusual speech is not as horrified as some imagine. Usually if I'm speaking in public I just tell people what to expect and roll on like I'm in love with it. It's a hard skill to acquire but it's totally possible.
I'm not invulnerable though. I'm also interested in seeing if any of you have some super fantastic strategies for speaking perfectly fluently forever and also losing 20 pounds in 20 days. :o
This is the first stuttering forum I've run into. It's interesting to see the thoughts of other people who stutter - the only other ones I'd met before are family members who are hesitant to discuss it at length.
I'm a college student in eastern USA and stuttering annoys the hell out of me but it's also not the worst affliction I can imagine. I guess I stutter moderately. Some days I can barely say any words at all, and other days I can say most words except the ones that count, like my first name or the precise answer to the question. I've been conditioning myself since high school to say what I need to say regardless of the bizarre pronunciations. For this reason I'm a little hard to embarrass (not to say it can't happen), and the main complaint I have about stuttering is that it is so depressingly inefficient.
One reason became so relentless about practicing talking is that my mother stutters a lot and I actually had no idea until I was 16. All through childhood, while I was flipping out that people thought I couldn't read when I could actually write circles around them and their moms, she was telling me it was ok, with what I thought was just a retarded vocabulary. She never once mentioned that she has the same impediment; she spends her life pretending not to know words or know the answer to anything, ever. It's a terrifying prospect to me. I think I do better blushing twenty times a day from speech difficulties than I would in silence.
I'm interested in finding out details about the speech and thought patterns of other people who stutter. I'm also interested in discussing the evidence I have that people's reactions to unusual speech is not as horrified as some imagine. Usually if I'm speaking in public I just tell people what to expect and roll on like I'm in love with it. It's a hard skill to acquire but it's totally possible.
I'm not invulnerable though. I'm also interested in seeing if any of you have some super fantastic strategies for speaking perfectly fluently forever and also losing 20 pounds in 20 days. :o