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From: Joe Mirly
Date: 12 Oct 2005
Time: 13:00:01 -0500
Remote Name: 131.107.0.104
Hi Stephanie - I really like that saying - "you don't know what you don't know until you know it". It really makes me think about things - that my perceptions about myself and the world around me contantly change as I continue to grow and learn. I think that when dealing with my stuttering I wasn't ignorant of a way to cure this disorder. I sort of knew that there was no cure - and it was that bit of information that contributed to my reluctance to face it. This also made therapy sort of pointless to me in some respect - lots of work for no end result. At that time I viewed fluency as the natural goal of any therapy program and I just knew that I'd never be fluent, so why bother? Do you see what I'm getting at? I'd just reluctantly accept that I stuttered, would stutter all my life, and just ignore it. Once I finally started to learn about stuttering and lost the gloom-and-doom attitude about it I started to see that it wasn't pointless; that [lack of] fluency didn't have to mean failure. There is a wealth of resources and support out there for people who stutter. And of course you don't know this until you know it. ;-) Thanks! Joe