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From: Gary J. Rentschler
Date: 17 Oct 2011
Time: 08:26:37 -0500
Remote Name: 165.190.57.240
Kim, From your parent's perspective, its harder to understand what you can't see. For most PWSC (as well as PWS), its often important that others know what you are going through, especially your feelings and emotions. Some people try to support others by attempting to verbally minimize the issue... "Its not that bad" or "People hardly notice." But usually (and perhaps in your case) that leads to the PWSC interpreting the message to mean that "they just don't really understand what this is like!" If its important to you that your parents understand your perspective you might try to emphasize your perspective of your stuttering to them. And, while it may not be or seem like it should be a "big deal" to them, that it really is quite incapacitating for you, living in fear of stuttering all the time. While that may not be how they feel or think, they might feel this way if they actually were in your position. However it is how you feel and that you hope they could try to understand that. Parent/child relationships are special (and sometimes especially difficult). Maybe try talking about this with some friends first to sort of "practice up" on discussing your stuttering with others. In some instances, unfortunately, we just have to accept that some people won't ever truly understand; as hard as that is (particularly if its your parents), its sometimes one of life's realities. I wish you luck.