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From: Viren Gandhi
Date: 10/15/02
Time: 1:38:35 AM
Remote Name: 203.197.7.19
Often my family Members tell me Where was your stuttering when.....
It's because I may have done something which I liked doing and avoided certain things in life. So for them question comes (rather as a insult) Where was your stuttering ....for so and so.
PWS, who are getting educated and reading Mailing Lists, ISADs, Stutteringhomepage.com, on it's own get some courage and gradually try to do things which they have avoided. This change is very slow. And often hard and painful.
I would like to hear what respected SLPs would like to say to such family members. It's often insult to ingury for PWS as he himself is so depressed with things he has lost in life and is trying to make up on them. Depressions are often more then enocuragemments in life. Rather then giving support and understanding PWS, family members dampen his efforts to improve.
Regards, Viren Gandhi Mumbai, India E-Mail : viren_gandhi@yahoo.com