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From: Cristóbal
Date: 10 Oct 2009
Time: 05:02:57 -0500
Remote Name: 80.58.205.44
Dear friend, I think that we really agree. You say: "working towards fluent speech along with: increased self-confidence, less stress and anxiety, decreased secondary behaviors and so on and so forth. I believe that in stuttering therapy, emphasis should be placed on accepting your stutter and moving forward accepting that you are a person who stutters in a positive light" All these goals can be adquired in self help groups, as you know. It is much better a relationship based on comradeship rather than on money. That is the truth. That´s why self help groups are so successful. This "type of goal in a therapy setting" is very interesting, but it is indispensable a political movement to change the social meaning of stuttering. Indispensable. An old feminist adagio said: "The personal is the political". Of course. Stutterers´ pain is not individual: its roots come from society. So, apart from the therapy, it is indispensable to make society -and stutterers researchers- aware of this: there is nothing wrong with stuttering and stutterers. Thanks, my friend. Cris