Brendan
02-02-2006, 10:59 AM
Hey everyone :) I've just registered now, so I'm just getting to grips with this wonderful you guys have here, I'm pleased to finally find a site where we can discuss this terrible habit that has been and still is burdening me since I was a child.
Well, my name is Brendan, as far as I can remember it started when I was only a child, I'm 19 now, and it doesn't seem to be getting any better, even though I have had speech therapy, I find at certain periods of my life (lasting for a few months) my speech improves, then worsens again. I'm sure you have all had the same experiences as this, but maybe different.
I've come here to hopefully help people with, and to improve my own attitude on this subject. My mother did her best in trying to improve my speech by setting me up with speech therapy course, funded by our local health board, I was 11 and 12 at the time, but, it didn't seem to help because it was only once a week, then the therapist insisted I (as she plainly put it) ""move on". I of course (without any choice?) agreed to this.
So I went through secondary school, not ever being able to read out in the class and such. I even avoided a year of transition in school because I knew I would be asked to perform in plays, I refused because I was afraid I'd be up on the stage failing to say a word. I've decided I'm finally going to do something about it. That's all I really have to say, I just don't want to go through life like I have done, avoiding certain things. It's so depressing.
Well, my name is Brendan, as far as I can remember it started when I was only a child, I'm 19 now, and it doesn't seem to be getting any better, even though I have had speech therapy, I find at certain periods of my life (lasting for a few months) my speech improves, then worsens again. I'm sure you have all had the same experiences as this, but maybe different.
I've come here to hopefully help people with, and to improve my own attitude on this subject. My mother did her best in trying to improve my speech by setting me up with speech therapy course, funded by our local health board, I was 11 and 12 at the time, but, it didn't seem to help because it was only once a week, then the therapist insisted I (as she plainly put it) ""move on". I of course (without any choice?) agreed to this.
So I went through secondary school, not ever being able to read out in the class and such. I even avoided a year of transition in school because I knew I would be asked to perform in plays, I refused because I was afraid I'd be up on the stage failing to say a word. I've decided I'm finally going to do something about it. That's all I really have to say, I just don't want to go through life like I have done, avoiding certain things. It's so depressing.