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From: C. Baerg
Date: 12 Oct 2011
Time: 20:17:03 -0500
Remote Name: 72.25.192.4
Hi Grant. I was very impressed and inspired by your article! I am a person who stutters.This past summer I got a renewed desire to work on my speech which led to more of a self acceptance after I watched “The King’s Speech” and going to a stuttering conference. I had never been at a stuttering conference and I was enthralled at the support that I found there. It was a life changing experience for me. It is a very safe environment that you could speak how you were able to and if you stuttered much or little no one would make fun of you because we all knew what it like to stutter. It amazed me and is still amazes me how people who stutter can go up and speak in front of a group and stutter without batting an eye at it. In spite of the stutter they went ahead and spoke. That is one of the highlights of the conference for me. The reason for this is because I’ve been terribly ashamed and embarrassed of my stutter. Now I feel like a bird just let out of the cage. I now have the support I’ve ached for many years. I am confronting the fears and it feels so good. So your article has touched a sensitive spot in my being. I like the thought that you turn your stuttering into a useful tool instead of a negative, shameful point. I would like to ask you a question. Are you ever embarrassed or ashamed when you are speaking to an audience and you have a long hard block? How would you encourage someone to deal with the emotions and the moment of the hard block?