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From: Judy Kuster
Date: 06 Oct 2011
Time: 14:37:13 -0500
Remote Name: 76.17.183.48
It is very interesting to read this part of your personal story. Especially interesting to me because of some parallels in the life of Charles Van Riper, one of the grandfathers of our field of speech-language pathology. He also had a special place in the woods (his was near Champion, Michigan) and a special secret tree (his was a birch tree). In this place he, like you, vowed to never stop trying to find the answer to his stuttering. He also had a difficult relationship with his father, was angry about the idea of his stuttering limiting him, and chose "a career requiring speaking in classrooms full of students and at scientific meetings where may intelligent and articulate people were listening and discussing." Thank you for sharing your story. A lot of people talk about acceptance to find peace with their stuttering. You talk about anger. I wonder how common that is as a motivator for change. An interesting question I hadn't really considered before.