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From: Vivian Sisskin
Date: 13 Oct 2011
Time: 08:10:29 -0500
Remote Name: 173.66.20.142
Thanks, Pam! You, and many others, who are far along in their therapy journey of feel like they hit a plateau when they have overcome most of the avoidance and fear, but there are STILL some times when they don't want to show stuttering. "I am ok with people seeing me stutter and knowing I stutter, but I don't want to show the ugly stuff!" It appears that they just raised the bar.. they have made friends with their stuttering, but not their struggling. I find that they are continuing to protect themselves from the shame, but it has just moved to an arbitrary level of struggle that they cannot tolerate. Continue to shame-bust! I wish you well on your road to comfortable communication :-)