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From: Anita
Date: 07 Oct 2004
Time: 06:34:57 -0500
Remote Name: 80.28.115.160
Thanks for all your comments. Some of you asked about therapy. My best therapy was to finally accept my stutter and to love myself as I am. I feel much more confident realizing I have the right to speak just like anyone else. I CAN speak, even if it takes more time. I now claim my right to speak and the more I do that, the better I speak. Another thing that has helped my speech is the closure I found between me and my parents. To love and be loved by my parents, no matter what. And that´s not all: I turned 40 this week and I´m celebrating it in Spain right now (sitting at an internet café reading your comments). The week before I left I got a new job as a computer help teacher at the school I´ve been for the last two years. I hated school as a child, being bullied by teachers and pupils all those years. I went back to school and never had better teachers who took away my fear and gave me loads of confidence. And now they called me to help them in front of a class! I had some speech therapy when I was young, but as they were such bad experiences I won´t go into this in this forum. At later stage I learned some speech techniques that I can use when neccessary. And when my speech is down I do use a DAF program when making important phone calls (as I also have a job at an office). So, for me life is perfect and I´ve never felt nor talked better!