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From: Chris Roach
Date: 10/1/03
Time: 10:08:54 PM
Remote Name: 64.12.96.74
Jennifer, thanks for an excellent and very high quality content of concepts on self-esteem. I focused on your aspect of choices for people to pursue positive influences or negative discouragement in their effort to achieve a positive self-image and consequently a healthy self-esteem.
So let me ask you about covert stutterers as it relates to choices. You emphasized a movement toward positive influences in order to gain positive results rather than the negative. So, as covert stutters, we have that odd elective ability to emphasize our fluency capabilities much of the time as a substitute to our simple, open natural disfluency. Granted, there is signficant internal consequences that MAY come out of that election and most likely could be directly proportional to eroding our self-esteem. However, IF a covert experiences more positive social, occupational and external reaction and experiences when he or she is emphasizing their fluency and may even have (or does) experienced negative results or penalties from disfluency, which would you persuade the covert stutterer to consider, strictly when viewing the end result of impact on one's self-esteem?
Know that's a tough, awkward question, BUT, so much of a covert's choice to "manuever through the minefield (ala Tricks)" rather than just walking straight through and taking the hits is premised on their life experience of actually having a better self-image/self-esteem result from fluency practices rather than from their disfluent side.
Again, great paper. You covered some excellent ground to help a lot of us. Thanks! And thanks for being such a wonderful friend to the NSA for so many years. You're appreciated by many, many people.
Chris