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From: Joseph Dewey
Date: 12 Oct 2005
Time: 12:59:38 -0500
Remote Name: 166.70.154.2
Hi Lee. I'm really not sure how many "recovered clutterers" there are out there. I've met clutterers, but none that have made as significant as progress as I have. That's why I feel like I've got a huge responsibility to talk about cluttering, is to give people hope that cluttering is both something significant and that cluttering is something that can be "cured." I think that the way to cure cluttering is not to get rid of it, but to build up the underdeveloped areas in the clutterer so that the clutterer can speak without cluttering. That would result in the underlying cluttering still being there in some fashion, but would give the clutterer a framework to speak fluently within. I think that cluttering is so much a part of my personality, and that a lot of it comes from how I tend to think in abstract terms. I'm probably never going to change my personality, and I probably shouldn’t do it even if I wanted to. The thing I can do is overlay a framework of speaking that allows me to speak "normally." Thanks for the question. Joseph