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From: Ed Feuer
Date: 10/4/03
Time: 10:01:44 AM
Remote Name: 142.161.185.102
You say: "First, I am not an SLP. I am a stutterer, in recovery to be sure, but a stutterer nonetheless. Would that make a difference in your question to me? I really am interested in your opinion here. I don't want to grind any particular ax; I am curious."
I have presented my opinion and you do not seem to wish to respond to my points. I presume that you and Woody did the article as a partnership. I would still like some answers to my questions, if not from you, then from him.
One interesting element in your reply: " a stutterer, in recovery." I have heard such terminology before and I wonder about it. It's like "an alcoholic, in recovery."
My dictionary tells me that recover means to get back again, to regain, retrieve. Hence recovery is the state of doing that.
Stutterer in recovery implies there was blissful period before one was a stutterer when one was "fluent" (sober for the alcoholic), and that one wants to go back to that period. This is not just semantic quibble because if one is a developmental stutterer, such a period of grand fluency likely never existed. To yearn for some an imaginary pristine time in the past is only contributing to the unhealthy fragmented self of stuttering.