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From: Hannah Laday
Date: 05 Oct 2010
Time: 15:00:02 -0500
Remote Name: 205.188.117.10
Elyse, The first therapy I had really did not help me because it did not focus at all on attitude, emotions, psychology beneath the stuttering, as in beneath the iceberg. Also, it just so happened that every day I had therapy I had to return to school and enter an English class that was emphasizing theatrical presentations! It was a set-up for failure because I'd come straight from therapy room to class and be asked to recite Shakespeare! No kidding! As I mentioned, there was still no discussion of my stuttering in my family so I was still alone with it and with this therapy that I could not transfer. I got no reaction to my voluntary stuttering when Marybeth had me do it out in the community. So I began to see that it might not be as bad to stutter openly as I believed it to be. I'm not sure if there is a skill involved in becoming more accepting of my stutter. Except maybe the attempt to be very honest with myself and to work on positive self-talk and positive reinforcement. This is a daily effort. What I do for sure, however, is listen, listen, listen to other PWS who are farther along than me. Hannah