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From: A.(Drew). G. Stewart. (Auckland. New Zealand.)
Date: 05 Oct 2007
Time: 13:13:45 -0500
Remote Name: 222.153.39.92
Good Morning.(0615 hrs N.Z.Time.) I trust you slept well. My query is my 2-3 month lay off from Toast-masters. I practice "Exposure Therapy", after hearing about it in 2005, with a lot of success; I might add. There are areas of my life where my speech does need improvement; but what baffled me was my return to public speaking. I was apprehensive & dreading getting up in front of an audience & speaking again. I was the Toastmaster for my return meeting & was expecting a performance of a number of severe blocks etc well under par of what I'm capable of. Instead, what happened is Toastmasters weaved its "Magic" for me one(1) more time & the opposite happened. I was 100% fluent throughout except for a couple of blocks at the end of my assignment. I was even called upon to give am impromptu speech in the Table Topics. Again with 100% success rate as far as my speech(stutter) was concerned. What the hell is going on??? I thought I knew all about myself & my stutter. Obviously, I do not!!! (I'm 58 at the end of the month) May I also point out that where others fear to tread, I have no real difficulty at all. eg: Phone, R.T. etc. May I thank you in anticipation of your learned explanation(s).