Dug23
11-11-2005, 11:13 PM
Hi all
Nice to meet you all. Im Tom, 23 from England; currently doing my phd in geography etc... I've had an on/off stutter all my life - was particularly bad when early teens but i still get the problem. I guess me and my family as well thought i grew out of stuttering but i think i just found ways to disguise it - using different words, avoiding certain situations, trying to stay calm and relaxed etc... but it takes a lot of hard work and concentration. I find it particularly hard to control it in oral presentations and on the phone too... with my friends and family it isnt a problem really (most of the time). Most of them probably don't even know. I find it really frustrating - I have a girlfriend and for some reason i find her name hard to say; especially on the phone. I haven't ever seen anyone about my stuttering as like i said i have learnt to hide it or minimise it (or ignore it and hope it fades away). But for example in interviews and stuff i am doing at the moment for my research it still slips back in and i hate hearing my voice on the recorder. I'm going to have to do lots of interivews in spanish next year and really worried that i wont be able to hide it with another language. Anyway that was a bit of long introduction. I'm going to have a look through the forums now. :)
Nice to meet you all. Im Tom, 23 from England; currently doing my phd in geography etc... I've had an on/off stutter all my life - was particularly bad when early teens but i still get the problem. I guess me and my family as well thought i grew out of stuttering but i think i just found ways to disguise it - using different words, avoiding certain situations, trying to stay calm and relaxed etc... but it takes a lot of hard work and concentration. I find it particularly hard to control it in oral presentations and on the phone too... with my friends and family it isnt a problem really (most of the time). Most of them probably don't even know. I find it really frustrating - I have a girlfriend and for some reason i find her name hard to say; especially on the phone. I haven't ever seen anyone about my stuttering as like i said i have learnt to hide it or minimise it (or ignore it and hope it fades away). But for example in interviews and stuff i am doing at the moment for my research it still slips back in and i hate hearing my voice on the recorder. I'm going to have to do lots of interivews in spanish next year and really worried that i wont be able to hide it with another language. Anyway that was a bit of long introduction. I'm going to have a look through the forums now. :)