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From: Anita Blom
Date: 22 Oct 2008
Time: 08:02:23 -0500
Remote Name: 217.209.4.218
You are so right, Leys. On one hand we want to stay quiet, as we don't want to "come out", but on the other hand we want people to understand and to help us. I too lived in a vacuum for many years and only for the last 10 years I started to talk and open up and found the following: - Most people couldn't care less. We care more than they do. - Advertising takes the pressure off and gets that question mark, or that feeling of "is-she-having-a-fit-or-what". I wear a badge saying "S-s-sure I stutter. What are y-y-you good at". It makes people talk. I am also in the medie at least once a year. And if it has been a while, I simply contact them again. - If we want stuttering to be something normal, we need to start talking about it. For if we don't talk, others either won't, or will do it in a way we won't like them to. - People of all ages will understand if you use "their" language. I spoke to 15 classes last week and some of the kids "came out", others wanted to start stuttering as I made it sound like a kinda cool thing and others wanted to be my friend, as I told them that, when I was young, kids didn't want to play with me because of my stutter. So yes, let's Keep Talking and thanks for doing what you do, Leys. We need people ringing that bell like you do. Anita, Sweden