How far will you go to end your stuttering!!

[happy7117]

I have often wondered how far people will go to stop stuttering..I know we may never get rid of our stutter problem entirely, but it's not a bad idea to strive for %100!!!

Even through all the ways you have tried and I have tried, I wonder if there is anything that will ultimately
end stuttering or if there is something we have not found or tried??

They say there is not a cure- I say never say never! If you think there will not be a cure, there will not be a cure..If you think a cure does not exist, then you might have given up looking!!

If you think there could be a cure, you are one that has not lost hope in finding a solution....

Just because a cure has not been found does not mean a cure does not exist....

I will never buy into a no real end to stuttering, I think the end is out there, we just have not found the right tools to reach it...

The best tool is not always the right tool either!!!

[Standingtall]

I will not give up my first born, if that what you mean. Until they find that Snake Oil, I have accepted my stutter and it has accepted me, so we are cool.

[happy7117]

How far will I do to end my stuttering?

That's yet another point that has never occured to me before. I don't see the path to a cure for stammering as being a frontier that I push and push. Rather, I see it as a mountain that I climb.
Sometimes I miss a hold and fall, and the rope I am attached to catches me, and saves me from falling all the way down to where I was years ago - a very dark place.
Other times, I find the climb easy, and make good time on the ascent.
I can see the peak I am ing for. Sometimes it's misty, sometimes obscured by a north wind and a heavy blizzard, but I know it's there.
And I will conquer that peak one day.

What a great metaphor/comparison!!- Climbing an endless mountain in hopes to one time meet the top!! Stuttering being that mountain and our voice is the person climbing it!!

[bignick]

How far will I do to end my stuttering?

That's yet another point that has never occured to me before. I don't see the path to a cure for stammering as being a frontier that I push and push. Rather, I see it as a mountain that I climb.
Sometimes I miss a hold and fall, and the rope I am attached to catches me, and saves me from falling all the way down to where I was years ago - a very dark place.
Other times, I find the climb easy, and make good time on the ascent.
I can see the peak I am ing for. Sometimes it's misty, sometimes obscured by a north wind and a heavy blizzard, but I know it's there.
And I will conquer that peak one day.

Very well put Steve.

[Requiem]

Has anyone ever heard of this new invention scientists have made for stuttering. It was on the news a few weeks ago and they showed this man in America who has a really bad and I mean bad stutter. His therapist or psychologist asked him to read a passage in a book and he could read it properly but when they inserted the device in his ear, it was as if by magic his stutter went away, he read the page again with no problems but when they took it out again he went back to stuttering. I don't know if that counts as that being a cure or just something that slows it down. But doesn't that make buisness bad for speech therapists if everybody starts using these ear pieces?

As for me, the furthest I'd go is to carry on with speech therapy till there's an improvement.

[bignick]

Has anyone ever heard of this new invention scientists have made for stuttering. It was on the news a few weeks ago and they showed this man in America who has a really bad and I mean bad stutter. His therapist or psychologist asked him to read a passage in a book and he could read it properly but when they inserted the device in his ear, it was as if by magic his stutter went away, he read the page again with no problems but when they took it out again he went back to stuttering. I don't know if that counts as that being a cure or just something that slows it down. But doesn't that make buisness bad for speech therapists if everybody starts using these ear pieces?

As for me, the furthest I'd go is to carry on with speech therapy till there's an improvement.

I think its called a speakeasy and one or two on here have tried it without success. Each to their own I say.

[Standingtall]

For myself, I see the mountain as having a top - ie not endless.

But, I'm glad you like it ;)
I always enjoy the climb and head straight to the top of a mountain or two. lol

[kghayesh]

I don't know but I don't like to use this device. I don't like to be labeled as someone who stutters and is using this to help him communicate with people. Even if I know it will help me, but i feel it is like a label that distinguishes u from the society as someone with speech impediment.

[Jeff99]

i would an have been trying everything out there unlike some people who will just cry about how hard life is with a speech problem but do nothing about it an wonder why nothing every changes

[Host of Chaos]

maybe people are scared the nothingwill work for them andthat is why they dont try new things cos they dont want to gethopes up and then find they dont work for them. or maybe they are too poor to afford new things evrey time.

[Standingtall]

maybe people are scared the nothingwill work for them andthat is why they dont try new things cos they dont want to gethopes up and then find they dont work for them. or maybe they are too poor to afford new things evrey time.
Excellent points there. Personally I beleive, for things to change you have to change or things will remain the same.

[soulman386]

I was so desperate I paid $5000 for that damn speecheasy device. What a dope I was.