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From: Larry Padgett
Date: 24 Oct 2007
Time: 06:32:33 -0500
Remote Name: 129.71.16.249
Judy, Thanks for your reply. I feel that stutters are challenged enough without being further diminished by an acronym that may imply a negative feeling that is not true for many if not most stutters. I knew nothing could or would be done to change a long standing acronym. It is just too bad it was adopted in the first place. _________________________ Although I have stuttered for 65 years, I am happy with who I am. I call my quest for fluency, Scaling the Cliffs of Impossibility. And when I am on standing on top of the cliffs, I’ll look back on this journey and appreciate even more the role of stuttering in making me who I am. If I were given the choice of never having stuttered, I most certainly would not take it. My life would have been different and I would not be the person I am or have what I have. My life has been great; I don’t see how it could have been much better. Almost for sure I would not have the wife and children and grandchildren I have. I’ll take the life that stuttering has helped mold rather than gamble on it somehow being better without it. ________________________ Thanks again for the conference. Larry