Finding Solutions to Managing Stuttering

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"Good things happen when you don't give up."

From: Pamela Mertz
Date: 08 Oct 2011
Time: 15:54:48 -0500
Remote Name: 67.248.218.106

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Wow, what an inspiring story. My story seems somewhat similar to Bryan's in that I too did not participate in any therapy for my stuttering until I was in my 40's, after years of feel extremely self-conscious and limited due to stuttering. I also worked very heard at being covert, and denying the covertness for many years. I commend Bryan for his hard work and persistence, and for acknowledging that his path won't work for everyone. I am curious, from a woman's perspective, about a couple of points. Charlie mentions that Bryan came to therapy only after deciding he needed to "man up". And Bryan mentions needing to "tough it out" when he found frustrating times during therapy. I am very interested in the differences between how adult men and women manage stuttering, and I know there is not a lot of research on it. In fact, there are few resources available about women who stutter. Do you think Bryan's attitude about "manning up" and needing to "tough it out" is common among men who stutter? My experience, having been to support groups and therapy groups where I was often the only only woman in a group of 15, is that men seem to want fluency or to be "fixed", more than women. What do you think? In the groups, the men who stutter only wanted to work on techniques and spoke of fluency being the goal, where sometimes I needed/wanted to talk about feelings and fears, and the men would look at me like I was crazy! :) Thoughts? Maybe Bryan could weigh in too, as it seems Charlie is doing all of the responding!


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