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From: Jaime Hannan
Date: 05 Oct 2010
Time: 07:07:36 -0500
Remote Name: 74.83.213.115
Pam, one of the comments you made in your last post really struck a cord with me - the whole idea of your private and public self often being at odds with each other. I can totally relate with you on that! While I am not a person who stutters, I have recently experienced a great loss in my life (I lost my mother to cancer) and I often feel as though I spend most of my energy trying to keep that "public persona" together - going to work, interacting with others, basically going through life making sure that I appear "composed." Recently, I started to think about why I do that...or why I work so hard to make sure that more private side of me (the one that often feels anger, hurt, fear, and sadness) needs to remain hidden. Have I arrived at an answer? Nope, not yet...still searching and may be for a while. However, it does make me step back and look at how our society at times seems to view pain, suffering, and hardships. It seems sometimes like the whole attitude is..."get over it," but I guess I wonder...does that help? Is that possible? I am curious about your thoughts. Thanks so much for sharing...your thoughts really are making me think and I appreciate your openness and willing to share. And I agree...writing is so cathartic. Jaime.