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From: Ellen-Marie Silverman
Date: 07 Oct 2008
Time: 11:48:37 -0500
Remote Name: 205.188.117.70
Hello, Vincent. I see you have gotten some pretty good information already. What I want to add is to remind you of something I think you already know but just forgot as you were writing, and that is: People who don't have stuttering problems are no more normal than people who do. They are just people without stuttering problems! >>> All of us have problems of one sort or another. If you think about your friends and relatives and celebrities in the media, you know what I mean. So, it's not that those of us with stuttering problems aren't normal and those who don't have the stuttering problems are; we're actually all pretty much in the same boat. We all have things about ourself we want to change to feel we are more like we think everyone else is. Those of us with stuttering problems work on learning to speak with more ease and predictabiliity to say what we want to say with little to no struggle or conspicuousness. Those who don't have stuttering problems don't, of course, but most do work on what they feel needs working on to feel they are more like they want to be. So, please, take a good look around you: Most of us have something about ourselves we think needs work. And, so, from that perspective, we are normal! I hope these words give you something to think about. Best. Elle-Marie Silverman