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From: Steve Hood
Date: 10/19/03
Time: 5:13:00 PM
Remote Name: 64.12.96.167
Hello, Terry and Daniel---
First-- a comment to Terry: I read your very excellent paper on about the first day of ISAD, and lurked and hang back so that I could read the comments and questions. I knew that this paper would result in lots of people getting involved. Covert (interiorized) stuttering is not well understood, even though it has been in the literature for many decades. Gosh-- how can we study it and try to understand it, when you coverts are so adept at hiding it. Ernest Douglass wrote eloquently about it back in the 1950's and Henry Freund did in the 1960's. I even considered trying to do my dissertation on covert stuttering--- but that was before the says of Internet conferences, and support groups. These covert folks were so well hidden I would not have been able to locate them. There have been references to recent NSA Conventions and workshops devoted to this topic, and I am happy to say that I helped with these. The courage of people like Cathy and Chris and others who participated is absolutely incredible.......
I am reminded of a great quotation about courage from former NYC Major Rudy Guiliani: "Courage is not about the absence of fear-- it is about the management of fear."
THANKS, Terry, for sharing.
And Daniel-- best wished for a successful doctoral program. Be sure to keep Rod Gabel and Roger Colcord in line, and you will do just fine LOL. Say hi to them for me.
The thing about passing for fluent and "gettig away with it" is that you need to be able to get away with it again-- and again--and again, and again, etc. There is always the risk of discovery. For some people, once the cat is out of the bag, some of the fear and avoidance can be reduced. But the battle is still far from over.
I wish the best of every thing for both of you, and to all the other "coverts" out there who have contributed to this theme.
Thanks to you, and others, for contributing to this important theme.
Steve Hood