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08-22-2010, 04:25 PM
Hello guys and girls,
I haven't been around this forum for the total age of God, but I thought if others can publish their success/suffering stories, so can I.
A year ago I attended a very professional speech therapy (self-procled, if you ask me) which lasted a week. Most of the exercises involved a special breathing technique, that, according to the therapist, is primarily used by actors and opera singers. To make it short, I and the other three participants ended up breathing like Pavarotti probably did before performances for the whole week. Did it help make my speech impediment go away? No. Though I did in deed practiced breathing all the months after the course.
Now I don't do it anymore. Not due to laziness, but to another feeling: gladness.
I was most glad the day I found out I hardly stutter anymore in private situations and can talk with most people almost completely smoothly. Yes, there are letter jams in my speech every now and then, but the overall effect is a positive one, and after 12 years of medium to intense private and public stuttering, I can be happy (at least regarding my speech). In all important conversations during the past year I could say my name without getting stuck. I've even had good times with two great women (not at the same time).
Over the years I've read about plenty of stuttering theories, mostly by scientists, that made me wonder if those guys ever had made direct contact with a stutterer. I've even come across misguided would-be arguments about stuttering by people who should know better.
After all this time I have come to many conclusions about stuttering and finally found it to be a purely neuropsychological issue, that can be made go away suddenly by invisible forces of nature too interconnected to be understood. If anything, I've eventually stopped pretending the world is free of conspiracies and realized liars do not fear the truth, if there are enough liars; that the devil is just one man with a plan, but evil, true evil, is a collaboration of men deliberately distorting the truth to make it fit in their ideologies. But greater than their lies, the truth wants to be known, and it will. It'll come to them, as it's come to me, faster than the speed of light.
Thanks for reading.
PS: Could be I slightly lost the thread.
I haven't been around this forum for the total age of God, but I thought if others can publish their success/suffering stories, so can I.
A year ago I attended a very professional speech therapy (self-procled, if you ask me) which lasted a week. Most of the exercises involved a special breathing technique, that, according to the therapist, is primarily used by actors and opera singers. To make it short, I and the other three participants ended up breathing like Pavarotti probably did before performances for the whole week. Did it help make my speech impediment go away? No. Though I did in deed practiced breathing all the months after the course.
Now I don't do it anymore. Not due to laziness, but to another feeling: gladness.
I was most glad the day I found out I hardly stutter anymore in private situations and can talk with most people almost completely smoothly. Yes, there are letter jams in my speech every now and then, but the overall effect is a positive one, and after 12 years of medium to intense private and public stuttering, I can be happy (at least regarding my speech). In all important conversations during the past year I could say my name without getting stuck. I've even had good times with two great women (not at the same time).
Over the years I've read about plenty of stuttering theories, mostly by scientists, that made me wonder if those guys ever had made direct contact with a stutterer. I've even come across misguided would-be arguments about stuttering by people who should know better.
After all this time I have come to many conclusions about stuttering and finally found it to be a purely neuropsychological issue, that can be made go away suddenly by invisible forces of nature too interconnected to be understood. If anything, I've eventually stopped pretending the world is free of conspiracies and realized liars do not fear the truth, if there are enough liars; that the devil is just one man with a plan, but evil, true evil, is a collaboration of men deliberately distorting the truth to make it fit in their ideologies. But greater than their lies, the truth wants to be known, and it will. It'll come to them, as it's come to me, faster than the speed of light.
Thanks for reading.
PS: Could be I slightly lost the thread.