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From: Lisa LaSalle
Date: 10 Oct 2010
Time: 19:52:22 -0500
Remote Name: 69.222.77.74
Cool story, Tim! It makes me wonder, what do you think it means that “through acceptance and confidence” a person can not allow stuttering to negatively affect the way a person leads his or her life -- starting a business regardless of the speaking demands, etc.? In other words, if we battle with a human condition, like stuttering, and it doesn’t go away, so then we stop battling and start living, it stands to reason that the condition no longer affects us in the way it used to. There are parts of any human condition that are frankly hard to accept and it is hard to gain confidence in the area (e.g., talking or walking) that the condition affects. I’m asking because it is refreshing as a speech-language pathologist to run across these real-life success stories, because sometimes a client who stutters will tell us and show us that he or she has accepted stuttering, but still wants help to gain confidence in some aspect of their speaking life. Then again, SLPs don’t see people who stutter who have truly accepted all aspects of their stuttering – they never seek us out.