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Re: Gelukwensen! Dank voor het delen!

From: Anita
Date: 05 Oct 2011
Time: 01:03:07 -0500
Remote Name: 83.223.9.17

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Thanks for your kind words. :-) I'm not sure of changing jobs, or even changing countries, have been helpful to my stutter, as it's a dread to meet new people, explain again, try to make them see the person behind the stutter once again, learning a new language, leaving my family behind... But I was on that famous pink cloud and didnt think one step ahead and to be with the person I love. :-) But when life approached me again, I realized there were other people around me as well. People expecting a certain behavior. Not only did I go for a new job. (And than go back to my safe environment.) EVERYTHING was new! I couldn't speak the language, I got two teenage kids on the spot, I couldn't cook and had a husband working 16 hours a day... But yes, as the challenge was so huge, I had only two choices: moving back to my safe environment, or simply try and make the best of it. I cried many tears and hid under the covers many times. I pretended not to know the language for a long time, until they found out. I only made dreaded phone calls at my new job when noone else was around. And my "covert" jobs turned into "overt" jobs and I'm loving every minute or it. I "just" explain my speech and than overwhelm them with the rest of me. :-) And as they say, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. And it did. My father taught me: "can't do" is non existing. And you won't know what you can or can't do as long as you haven't given it a try. So yes, go for your dreams, expend your comfort zones. You might be surprised about yourself. :-) Happy ISAD! Anita PS. if you think this is sharing my inner self, do check out my papers from previous ISAD conferences. :-)


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