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From: Dan
Date: 19 Oct 2010
Time: 13:28:45 -0500
Remote Name: 74.74.222.114
Hi, I'm graduating high school this year, and for the past year or so have been trying to work on addressing my stuttering. (In the past I resorted to avoidance--switching words or leaving a potentially difficult situation.) I guess one good thing I've been able to accomplish is that now, as I reveal my overt stuttering more often, the feelings of intense embarassment and anxiety that used to be there have diminished quite a bit. To me, that's huge. I guess what bothers me sometimes is the fact that most people who stutter seem to hide it. I look at celebrities and even just regular people who stutter, and most of them are concealing it (sometimes successfully, sometimes not; in fact, I can count four or five covert stutterers in my graduating class, but I'm sure most people don't know that they stutter). I start to think--if so many other people are using avoidance tricks, how should I expect myself to brave the world and stutter overtly, at least for the time being? If so many others can't do it, how can I expect myself to? Not sure how you guys are going to answer this, but then, that's why I'm asking. xD -Dan