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From: Dave Williams
Date: 09 Oct 2008
Time: 21:55:27 -0500
Remote Name: 76.17.183.48
Thanks for your good questions, Jin Li. I'm pretty sure I know why I have stopped stuttering(I'd judge that I am 99% fluent, and I used to be a fairly severe stutterer). I think I recovered from stuttering when I learned to do the things that speech therapists want stutterers to do. I have no fear of stuttering. I used to avoid the telephone, now I talk every day on the phone, and I love it. I'm a blabbermouth. It feels wonderful to be fluent. I look back with regret, even anger, at all those years I let stuttering dominate me, make me miss opportunities, screw up my life. Now I just talk. I don't use any "techniques", thoughI used to, back when I was learning how to manipulate my stuttering and above all to STOP TRYING TO STOP STUTTERING. I know I'm probably not giving you a satisfactory answer, and I wish I could tell all stutterers just how to do these things. I tried to for about 30 years of doing therapy and teaching courses in stuttering. All I know is that it can be done because I feel like Scrooge on Christmas morning.