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From: Bobby
Date: 22 Oct 2009
Time: 12:47:33 -0500
Remote Name: 71.228.119.75
MLM: Would I had an easier time in life if my early therapy experiences were better? Maybe, maybe not; I try to not dwell on those types of thoughts because it wouldn’t do me any good. I told my “story” so today’s students would have some understanding of how far speech therapy has come in the last 40 plus years. When I was sitting on my motorcycle I always felt like I was sitting on top of the world and no one could knock me off. I took an “Abnormal Psychology” course when I first went to college in 1975 and I asked the professor about that (I hadn’t yet become an EMT). She told me that most likely when I was on my bike I felt like I was in total control as I could leave anytime I wanted and shower who ever was there with dirt from my back tire. There was a few times that occurred, but not too often. Once I became an EMT I found out the same thing, that I could talk with patients without stuttering. I think that I had the same feeling of total control and my patients wouldn’t mind my stuttering as I would be helping them with a medical problem. The human mind is a very convoluted system and sometimes it does things that have no logical rhyme or reason for what it does. My feeling of “total control” is one of the things, no rhyme or reason. I probably will never figure that one out no matter how long I’m around.