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From: Steve Hood
Date: 10/17/02
Time: 3:22:01 PM
Remote Name: 199.33.133.50
Hi, Dale !
Gosh, Dale !!! I hadn't realized that you could hate all listeners. But I certainly can identify certain types of listeners that drive me up the well.
Your paper is really a complex one, with lots of themes and apparent sub-themes. Translation: your paper has lots of bottom lines. I read it several times, and each time I read it, I thought I was getting a slightly different message. I don't think this is becuase you are dysgraphic, -- I think it is because I must be dyslexic. No, it's probably that I need to see my own "eye doc" and make sure my bifocal lenses are the correct strength. !!!! (he-he, :-) smile.)
As I said, your paper has a lot of bottom lines:
Acceptance
The need to challenge yourself, and take risks, and give up tricks and avoidances.
Dealing with listeners (and punching the Dell kid.)
Helping yourself by helping others
Saying what you want to say and saying it when you want to say it, even if you sometimes stutter.
Up until now, I had never thought that there could be just one, single, best, universal, common denominator for a bottom line.... Thanks for getting me to think about this again. Of all the many possible bottom lines, for all of those many different PWS who deal with them, are there some bottom lines that are universal? Is there a single bottom line that is more powerful than all the others?
Maybe this would be a good question to have on a prelim exam for a future doctoral student: "With respect to stuttering tharapy.... What is the bottom line."
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p.s. Woody Starkweater has told the story of the PWS who ended up wearing the wrong prescriptive lenses because he did so much avoidance and substituting one letter for another, that ophthalmologist wasn't able to get valid test results.