My parents!!! Ouch...

[studentdoc]

Well last month I was in the car with my parents and they said " remember you used to stutter when you were younger? It was so hard on us. We didn't know what to do. We got you speech therapy and it didn't work. We felt so horrible."

That's because I have been so quiet the past 10 years and had gained control of my speech when I spoke and slept good hours and had a low stress life.

I told them " I still stutter once in a while when I'm under pressure or stressed out". They said, "Oh, you do huh?".

Well .... ever since that conversation I don't have a in fluent sentence when I speak to them. I see them looking at my speech and paying attention to it and it screws it up !!! And not just with them, in general I have completely lost control of my speech. I freeze up, stutter, the whole 9. I don't know if it's a chain reaction that started or I'm too busy with school to give my speech the time and attention it needs (as one poster previously referred to his speech as "his lady").

I don't know the purpose of this post, I'm just down and wanted to vent. I really feel for everybody.

[AMANS]

Don't worry ! If you gained control of your speech once, you are always able to do it again. You just need to remember how you did that. So just do it again !

[dave]

Don't take this wrong.

Around 80% of people are ignorant. What your parents did was ignorant. I deal with kids and teachers at school who are ignorant.
The only person who can hurt you is yourself.

I don't see what is so hard about do not interrupt me unless under extreme circumstances and do not address my speech. I have an IEP and it addresses my speech and says extra time is needed to speak.
I don't see what is so F***ing hard.

[bignick]

From the sounds of your message I think your parents feel guilty about you having a stutter but they expressed it the wrong way and it turned into a bit of a confidence zapping comment.
I think its a mixture of both the comments and your long hours, stressful job and the fear of stuttering in front of your parents thats made you lose your control.
I agree with both Amans and Daves comments and I am pretty sure you will gain control of your speech very soon. I wish you luck in doing this and hope you are feeling more upbeat soon.

[johnjohn]

[QUOTE=studentdoc]Well last month I was in the car with my parents and they said " remember you used to stutter when you were younger? It was so hard on us. We didn't know what to do. We got you speech therapy and it didn't work. We felt so horrible."

That's because I have been so quiet the past 10 years and had gained control of my speech when I spoke and slept good hours and had a low stress life.

I told them " I still stutter once in a while when I'm under pressure or stressed out". They said, "Oh, you do huh?".

Well .... ever since that conversation I don't have a in fluent sentence when I speak to them. I see them looking at my speech and paying attention to it and it screws it up !!! And not just with them, in general I have completely lost control of my speech. I freeze up, stutter, the whole 9. I don't know if it's a chain reaction that started or I'm too busy with school to give my speech the time and attention it needs (as one poster previously referred to his speech as "his lady").

I don't know the purpose of this post, I'm just down and wanted to vent. I really feel for everybody.[/QUOTE

a few years ago i finally started to answer the phone very fluently and could order pizzas just fine. then i moved back in with my parents. everytime i would go to answer the phone, i noticed my mom staring at me to see if i would stutter or not, then she started doing the same thing when i ordered food at restaurants. this made me feel really uncomfortable, this messed up my speech and i now hate answering the phone and going to restaurants, the staring caused i relapse!!!!!!!!!

[godmir]

Well last month I was in the car with my parents and they said " remember you used to stutter when you were younger? It was so hard on us. We didn't know what to do. We got you speech therapy and it didn't work. We felt so horrible."

That's because I have been so quiet the past 10 years and had gained control of my speech when I spoke and slept good hours and had a low stress life.

I told them " I still stutter once in a while when I'm under pressure or stressed out". They said, "Oh, you do huh?".

Well .... ever since that conversation I don't have a in fluent sentence when I speak to them. I see them looking at my speech and paying attention to it and it screws it up !!! And not just with them, in general I have completely lost control of my speech. I freeze up, stutter, the whole 9. I don't know if it's a chain reaction that started or I'm too busy with school to give my speech the time and attention it needs (as one poster previously referred to his speech as "his lady").

I don't know the purpose of this post, I'm just down and wanted to vent. I really feel for everybody.


yo i have the exact same thing happen to me man.

heres my story:

I used to stutter when i was younger but i somehow overcame it when i was in grade4 or 5 i guess.

Anyhow, when i was in grade 8 or 9 one of my closest friends (since grade 1) said " didn't you stammer when you were younger?". Until then i had completely forgotten about it. I replied "Yea. Yea i did. I don't anymore."

Let me tell you guys, I remember this day as though it was yesterday when in reality it is almost 7 years ago. I still remember us walking behind some gate in our school playground. !

After that day my stutter was back and its been around ever since.

Sometimes I wish he never mentioned it to me, I probably would have been stutter-free. But then again maybe my stutter would of been triggered by someother person.

Oh well.....I got to live with this and make the best of my life.

Good luck to you all