Women and Stuttering

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Thanks!

From: Anita (from Sweden)
Date: 10/11/02
Time: 5:08:26 AM
Remote Name: 195.67.213.47

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A big thanks to all of your papers, especially the questions. I tried to answer them all for myself to see where I am today. Twenty years ago I wanted to give up. On myself, on life, on the people who weren't there for me. Today I still stutter, but my life has made drastical changes. I work, I study, I moved to another country, I have a daughter and two step children. I'm active with stuttering work on local, national and international level and do I talk! People who see me today ask me what happened and I can't even tell you! I just know that finally I found myself. I finally am happy with the person I am. As a woman, as a partner, as a mother, as a part of society. Finally people come to me and I don't have to follow in other people's shades no more. What did I do? I listened to other people and tried to believe them. The people who saw ME, not the stutterer. People who love me for who I am and not feel sorry for me. I'm still looking for my path in life and I still don't know what I want to be, but one thing I do know and that's that I want to be me as I finally start to like that person. We hope to receive funding for another European Youth Camp and I'd like to use all of your questions to do a workshop with these young people in bloom and try to show them their own mirror they so often refuse to look into, or even believe their own eyes. Thanks for new ideas and I hope to meet you all somewhere in this beautiful world and exchange ideas.


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