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From: Grant Meredith
Date: 16 Oct 2011
Time: 16:25:05 -0500
Remote Name: 141.132.192.95
Hello Esther. Hmm confidence. I was not always a very confident person at all. My late teens-early twenties were my darkest years stuttering-wise. My support group of school friends had moved on from college and I was floundering. I simply decided that enough was enough and that I had a valuable place in the world and a right to fill it. I have a voice like everyone else. I started working in customer service roles. I became an independent short film producer for a while and worked my way through university. It was a realisation that I could not keep an excuse of not trying to succeed (my stuttering) from holding me back. I could have sat back, wallowed at home and waited for the magic cure pill. Instead I through the excuses away and walked outside into the bright and exciting world. I still experience little bubbles of doubt and occasionally I do have a really bad speech day mentally and physically. After these days I rationally look at the events and continue on forward.