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From: Terry Dartnall
Date: 10/16/03
Time: 3:14:31 AM
Remote Name: 132.234.9.165
Hi Gretchen
You say, “… every time I do have a blockage, I feel as if everyone is staring and knows that something is "wrong" with me.”
I know just what you mean! And it’s so hard to avoid feeling like that. I sometimes tell my wife how I feel, and she invariably says that she doesn’t know what I’m talking about, and that I sounded fine. I’m not sure that I did sound fine, but I’m sure that we do overact.
“I always felt that because my stuttering is so slight, I didn't have the "right" to be so upset or self-conscious”
Yup! That’s sounds very familiar.
I suppose that I find it surprising that SLPs didn’t cotton on to covert stammering sooner. It’s their job to help people with speech problems, and there must be so many coverts out there. Maybe the fault lies with the coverts – for being so covert! But with so many coverts out there I am surprised that we’ve kept our secret for so long!
Hang in there!
Terry