[ Contents | Search | Next | Previous | Up ]
From: Fellow PWS
Date: 08 Oct 2012
Time: 21:34:56 -0500
Remote Name: 72.25.192.4
Here is a little bit of my story before I ask my questions. I was a severe PWS when I was a child and a teenager. In my teens I took a 3 week intensive group therapy program. I came out of that program fluent and as time went on I relapsed never fully recovering from it with a lot of guilt attached. While pondering this in my adult years I came to the conclusion that back then I just wasn’t ready to deal with the emotional factor. Between 10-15 years ago I encountered a major setback which was speech related. I had some pretty stressful years following that time trying to avoid that kind of situation again. It’s just in the past year or two where I was able to make a major turn around with dealing emotionally with my stutter. I went to a stuttering conference and experienced seeing and hearing people with stuttering lead the conference. There is where I realized that I wasn’t alone with this anymore and stuttering could be dealt with in a positive way with the much needed support. I started challenging myself with baby steps. I’ve totally amazed myself time and again with doing things that I thought were impossible two years ago. Actually I’ve went into situations like what caused that major setback mentioned earlier, successfully. Did I stutter? Sure I stuttered and on about every word too. Did it matter? No it didn’t matter to me anymore. What truly mattered was, that I successfully faced the fear. Do those negative emotions come back? Yes they do sometimes, but they don’t last as long anymore because I have a support group I stay connected with. Facing the fear has gotten easier now. It is SOOOO liberating to successfully challenge myself!! In day to day situations I hardly stutter but will on occasion. In situations that I don’t feel that confident or the situation is stressful I will stutter quite significantly at times. I would like to be able to get more of a handle to manage the physical stutter better at those times. What are some ways I could improve on the physical stuttering in those situations where it manifests itself quite forcibly? What’s the time frame that improvement could be well established? What are some of the different directions I can go from here? I’m looking forward to the responses. Thanks for now.