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From: Kevin Eldridge
Date: 07 Oct 2011
Time: 01:14:59 -0500
Remote Name: 24.12.164.27
Ari, The fear of stuttering. The fear of talking. This really is the core of the problem for so many of us that stutter! The fear of stuttering is so great that we no longer try not to talk, we try not to stutter... which leads to what.... STUTTERING! What good is learning all the fluency shaping techniques in the world if your fear (which is very real I am sure) is so great that you can not access those techniques. Some people say that the fear will go away when the PWS realizes he has new tools to speak. But I say, FEAR is way to strong... and yours sounds stronger than most. As a PWS and an SLP it really upsets me to hear stories like yours. I don't want to make any assumptions, so before I go on, I want to ask you a question. If you are comfortable answering it, online, please do. How did you feel when you were standing on the road for 30 minutes trying to do something that you were able to do quite well in therapy room?