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From: Anita
Date: 16 Oct 2012
Time: 02:31:07 -0500
Remote Name: 81.229.220.43
Dear Stephanie. So happy to see so many students here, as we need your help and you need to pick our brains. :-) My writing and my music has been very helpful to me. My writing I kept to myself until later, but playing in a band was my lifeline. No bullying, if I wasn't there, I (or at least my part) was missed which made me feel important, we shared the same thing, and afterwards we spent some social time. Needless to say I was playing in five bands at the same time. :-) It's important, when you feel like an outcast, and as worthless as I felt, to find something you are good at. Something that can make you express yourself. Something that creates a connection to other people. Now if that's writing, music, art, theatre, at least it helps to make you feel you ARE good at something and that you play an important part and can hare something of yourself. Everyone is good at something. You just need to find that something. And hopefully share it. Do check out my papers in previous ISAD conferences and I hope we get the time to chat at the world congress for people who stutter next year. :-) www.stuttering2013.com. Keep talking!